After many years of humble service my Hitachi bread machine died. I got my new one today and, of course, decided to bake a loaf. Of recent times I have tried to cut down on the carbs so I thought about replacing the sugar in my coconut, walnut, pecan bread with Splenda. Duh! yeast eats sugar. I got to looking and realized that some recipes used sugar and some don't. Has anyone used splenda making bread? Do you have any bread recipes or stories to share?

In case anyone is interested, here is a Coconut Bread

3/4 cup water (I substitute coconut water)
2 cups bread flour
1 tsp salt
1 Tbsb Butter
1 Tbsb Cream of Coconut (canned)
1/4 cup shredded coconut
3 Tbsb Pecans (I can't help it. I use more!)
3 Tbsb Walnuts ditto
1 tsp yeast rapid rise OR 2 tsp yeast active dry

The yeast I use is "Instant dry". I don't know if it is active dry or rapid rise and I have adjusted the amount without much effect. It works.

I luv my bread machine
Make bagels
Pizza dough
Italian bread

Yeast doesn't really react to splenda.. it does react to the dextrose in splenda, but it's pretty negligent. The reason some recipes don't add sugar is because the sugar is just there to speed the yeast reaction up. There are natural sugars in the bread dough without adding any sucrose (table sugar) to it!