Healthy chocolates are a passe, 32-year-old Joy Chua, manager of Dec Chinese Deli has made healthy Valentine cakes with sugar-free formulations. To make sugar-free cakes she has combined unusual but sugar-free flavors like Purple Yam, raspberry, green tea, Halo-Halo and Buco Pandan.
It is really challenging for Chua to make sugar-free cakes as aspartame makes the cake dry and therefore Chua has to make a lots of experiments to give a perfect texture to her cakes. Moreover, it is also difficult to flavor a cake with an artificial sweetener as some cakes tend to taste good only with sugar.
In spite of all the challenges, Chua
is happy with the idea of expanding her line with sugar-free cakes. Chua serves other Chinese delicacies along with the cakes and pastries and you can always have the pleasure of tasting the sugar-free desserts in her Chinese Deli at Manila.
