Yes Virginia, there is a low sugar healthy guiltless chocolate cake

My sister helped me find the recipes for a chocolate cake that uses canola oil and agave syrup - the "natural" sugar that doesn't cause a spike in insulin, as well as a very rich chocolate icing that also uses agave. We served these up to my Mom and Aunt on Saturday; they are usually suspicious of what healthy alternative tricks we have pulled on them in our cooking; we joke that they don't eat anything unless it has at LEAST a stick of butter in it.  We held our breaths; and wham-o, they gobbled this up!!!! 

I had some strawberries at the ready, and they added nicely to the deep chocolate taste of the cake.

French toast the healthy way

I've been trying to find ways to reduce sugar in my life, and I've learned that agave syrup or nectar is a natural sugar product, that does not cause the insulin to spike in your blood the way that table sugar and other sweetners will.  So I've been trying to cook more with that.  Last weekend, we had french toast, and the syrup I put on my toasts was agave.  Loved it!  Wasn't much different (in fact I didn't taste a difference at all) than maple on the french toast.

These are whole wheat bread slices, dredged in 2 eggs and a dollop of milk and sprinklings of cinnamon.