Q: When a recipe calls for Splenda, what's the sugar equivalent?

A: It depends on which Splenda product you're replacing and how it's being used. Standard Splenda Granulated Sweetener (or sucralose) is a measure-for-measure replacement for sugar, meaning if a recipe calls for 1/4 cup Splenda, you can use 1/4 cup sugar. But when substituting for Splenda Sugar Blend for Baking or Splenda Brown Sugar Blend (mixtures of sucralose and sugar), use double the amount of sugar called for.

In baked recipes, we don't recommend substituting sugar for Splenda or vice versa. Sugar substitutes artificially sweeten, but they don't always provide texture and moisture or promote browning like sugar does. The special recipes that are developed for sugar substitutes compensate for these shortcomings by adding other ingredients and employing different methods. For this reason, a substitution might not work.