Cooking with Truvia - Yuck!

I had a big failure just now with Truvia. I’ve been craving chocolate - specifically I was jonesing for a deep chocolate fix. I haven’t had anything sweet or high in carbs since my dx this February. Unless you count sugar free jello pudding (not very tasty and not worth the carbs).

So, I bought unsweetened Ghiradelli chocolate, heavy cream, and eggs with the intention of making sugar free Chocolate pots de creme. I sweetened the darn thing with 12 packets of Truvia which is supposed to equal 1/2 cup of sugar. First off, the texture was weird, more like mousse and kind of grainy too. But it wasn’t sweet at all; it was kind of bitter, actually.

Chocolate pots de creme is an overly rich and satiny smooth dessert. You don’t need much to get a good chocolate hit. This fiasco was just plain awful.

I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone cooking with truvia. That sounds bad though. I was making hot chocolate with non-fat powdered milk, Splenda, Cocoa, vanilla, a dash of salt and hot water. That seemed to kill the chocolate/sweet cravings for me… and I could make it one cup at a time to avoid over indulging.