Ursula40

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Oh boy, this does make it difficult. I will give the mother a list of ingredients and let her decide what and how much her son can eat. She definately wants the cake, and I suppose, if I give her the list, she can calculate how much her son will be allowed to eat and how she needs to medicate. So if I tell her how much fat, flour and sugar is in the ckae she can calculate the servingsize, right? She already said she would scrape off the frosting as much as possible from his piece, in addition to not giving him a piece from the edge, but rather from the middle, where there won't be so much to start with. I don't have such a good feeling making this cake, it worries me, but I also feel sorry for the child, who has his heart set on having a cake he can be proud of and showing off to his friends. But ultimately the responsibilty does lie with his parents and they are the ones, who asked me to do the cake. So why do I feel like this? At least I can give her the list, which she wouldn't get, if she went to a bakery. Tracking down substitutes for cake flour is not that easy here in Shanghai, plus I'd have to find recipes for them, should I find them. I'll just go with the flour I have and rely on the mother's judgement, based on the complete list of ingredients for that cake. Regards Ursula

Well I've been here over three years now, so if you're looking for anything, let me know, maybe I can help regards Ursula

For Thai ingredients, go to Pines Supermarket, they have pretty much anything you need. They cater mainly for the indian/thai and Australian customers. Just topped my supplies up myself. Their adress is No 18 Lane 986 Jian He Rd, Shanghai Phone nr 021 626 29055 They make deliveries and take phone orders as well, english speaking staff Website www.pines.com.cn Otherwise go to Metro, they have several stores, as a foreigner you can apply for membership and shop at bulk prices. You need a business card, letter from your company and id to apply. They have a lot of herbs as well. Hope I'm not too late Regards Ursula

Thank you all for your help. I will have to see, what I can get here. Banana is no problem, I think they are everywhere, but the rest, I'll have to see. I'll probably just use a lot less sugar than normal and hope for the best, I'll ask the mother about adding Banana beforehand though. Bananas and chocolate go well together in my opinion and the child will have to remove the frosting as much as possible. Well have just phoned her and she is really appreciative. So I'll go with banana. Will have to tweek my marblecake recipe to accomodate that. I will let you guys know, how the cake was received. Thanks ever so much. Regards Ursula

Hi SuzySushi, I would really appreciate that a lot. tell the truth I haven't really looked around yet, which substitutions I can get here, the mother only asked me for the cake yesterday. I will have a look at both sites you recommended, thank you very much. The only thing I really am worried about is that the mother wanted a frosted cake, but I suppose she should know about that better than me. It's a combined b'day party for the diabetic child and his best friend, who isn't diabetic. Not really sure whether I really want to make the cake. I think I'll go and do a little bit of studying now. Regards Ursula

I now have 2 friends who are diabetics, one of them is a child. Is it possible to bake a cake for them and do you have any recipes I could use. The mother of the child wants a cake and asked about the carbohydrate content of the cake. How do I calculate that? What about icing, there's a lot of sugar in that. I don't quite know what to tell her. Can anyone help, please? Regards from Shanghai Ursula