Catty loves pastry but now has diabetes, so I will be making them with splenda. I have ordered a splenda cookbook but it's not here yet.

How do you make a sweet dough such as is used in some pastries? It has a rougher texture than pastries made with cake mix or puff pastry - half way between a biscuit (US) and a cookie.

Thanks for any help.

I found a bunch of recipes just from "googling" and they all are different. I'm not a cook and don't know anything about Sweet Dough but this recipe looked like a relatively basic one.

basic sweet dough
3/4 CUPS MILK
1/2 CUP SUGAR
1 1/4 TEASPOON SALT
1/2 CUP BUTTER OR MARGARINE
1 PACKAGE YEAST
1/3 CUP WARM WATER
3 EGGS AT ROOM TEMPERATURE
5 1/2 - 6 1/2 CUPS FLOUR
Combine milk, sugar, salt and butter in small saucepan. Heat over low heat butter melts and sugar disolves. Cool to lukewarm.

Disolve yeast in warm water in warmed bowl. Add lukewarm milk mixture, eggs and 4 cups flour and mix. Continuing to knead in rest of flour. Knead until dough becomes elastic.

Place in a well greased bowl and roll to grease top of dough. Cover and let rest until double in size.

Punch dough and shape as desired for rolls or coffee cakes.

Thank you, Georgia, that's a good one!