Out of curiosity - how much powdered sugar does the recipe call for? I only eat REAL cane or beet sugar... none of these "lab-created" substitutes.

I also can't imagine the small amount of sugar needed to sweeten cream cheese would break a low sugar diet when you break it down to serving size. You won't get the smoothness of texture substituting anything else for powdered sugar. Your end product may be a bit gritty if the sugar or substitute doesn't melt via baking or heating.

I suppose you could make your own powdered sugar product. A cup of granulated sugar ground up with a bit of cornstarch (about a teaspoon) in a food processor can be used when people are out of powdered sugar. Guess it would work with a substitute.

Stevia is a plant based sweetener.

I don't use any aspartame (equal) or whatever Splenda is either. I read the labels on everything!!

The recipe called for 1 cup of powdered sugar to be mixed w/the cream cheese. This wasn't a cooked product. It was a pineapple dessert.

And w/DH being type 1 and me being type II neither one of us needs the added sugar.

I ended up using 1/2 C of Stevia & about 2 tsps of corn starch to make the 'powdered sugar' substitute. It was good.

Thanks for the help!

Stevia should work for a sugar substitute since it appears that your recipe does not require cooking. Try a small batch to find out.

The problem with artificial sweeteners is elevated temperature during the cooking/baking process. Heat tends to break down artificial sweeteners into bitter or foul tasting products. That's why special recipes calls for adding the sweetener after most of the hot procedures are finished. When it is impractical to do this, it is also impractical to bake that item with artificial sweeteners.

I'm not sure how stevia handles hot temperature. It is plant based and may be okay. It works fine to sweeten a hot cup of coffee. I've also used Equal to sweeten a cup of coffee. For a cup of coffee, stevia tastes a little better than Equal.

When a recipe calls for powered sugar in a recipe, I use Swerve sweetener.