Sugar-Free Gluten-Free Baking and Desserts: Recipes for Healthy and Delicious Cookies, Cakes, Muffins, Scones, Pies, Puddings, Breads and Pizzas

HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT HEALTHY TOO

Standard baked goods come with a hefty price on your health—weight gain, cholesterol and diabetes, as well as allergies for many people. Sugar-Free Gluten-Free Baking and Desserts shows how to bring taboo treats back to the baking sheet with mouth-watering recipes that transform diet-busting favorites into guilt-free wonders.

Following a wholesome approach that avoids quick-metabolizing ingredients,
this book presents recipes for delicious desserts and breads that are as satisfying as they are good for the body. Discover the easy and tasty way to bake with healthy alternatives:

• Replace wheat

with arrowroot, buckwheat or quinoa flour

• Eliminate sugar

by sweetening with agave, yacon or stevia

Sugar-Free Gluten-Free Baking and Desserts offers over 90 delicious and nutritious recipes for:

• Cinnamon Rolls
• Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Old-Fashioned Raspberry Thumbprints
• Almond Joy Truffles
• Carob Chip Scones
• Mexican Wedding Cakes
• Corn Bread
• Peanut Butter Waffles
• Zucchini Bread
• Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie
• Fudge Brownies

Luscious Lemon Desserts

Lemon sweets are the divas of desserts. Assertive and bold, lemons can be flamboyant, tart, and tangy as in the Lemon Granita or sweet, mellow, and velvety like the creamy Lemon Panna Cotta. Over 70 recipes--from the classics to lip-smacking new favorites--are all enticingly presented in Luscious Lemon Desserts. These recipes vary from the simple to the sublime, from the quick and easy to the most elaborate showstoppers. Author Lori Longbotham provides great tips on buying, storing, and using this most popular fruit. Whether it's a fast and fabulous lemon pudding or a Mile-High Lemon Angel Food Cake, the name says it all: Luscious Lemon Desserts. Yum!

The Golden Book of Desserts

Sinfully delicious custards, mousses, trifles, meringues, cakes, pies, tarts, fritters, and many other desserts are the subjects of this recipe-filled volume. More than 250 recipes--each with a taste-tempting color photo--will inspire home chefs to treat family and guests with truly extraordinary desserts. The kitchen-proven recipes are categorized as follows:

Custards and Creams: chilled lemon soufflé, chocolate and hazelnut pots de crème, layered coconut and mango mousse, and many more

Trifles and Charlottes: raspberry and peach trifle, strawberry charlotte, apricot and ginger parfait, almond crunch with raspberry compote, and many more

Frozen Desserts: chocolate cherry ice cream bombe, chocolate spumoni, frozen raspberry liqueur cake, strawberry ice cream pie, and many more

Fruit Desserts: champagne strawberries, fresh fruit salad with lemon syrup, melon salad with mint and ginger syrup, and many more

Meringues: meringues with raspberry filling, chocolate pavlovas, meringue baskets with strawberries and mascarpone, and many more

Layer Cakes and Rolls: chocolate sponge with chantilly, chocolate cake with ricotta filling, jelly roll dessert cake, and many more

Pies and Tarts: peach and coconut pie, chocolate meringue pie, plum pie, golden macadamia tart, pear and almond tart, and many more

Crisps, Puddings, and Soufflés: blackberry clafoutis, Austrian apple delight, peach and cherry crisp, orange and lemon soufflés, and many more

Crêpes, Waffles, and Fritters: crepes suzette, waffles with baked plums, rice and apple fritters, and many more

Pastries: pecan baklava, apple turnovers, hazelnut cream puffs with chocolate sauce, ice cream profiteroles, and many more

Savarins and Brioches: raspberry cream savarin, rum babas with cinnamon cream, filled raspberry brioche, and many more

Basic Recipes: vanilla crème anglaise, Italian sponge cake, vanilla pastry cream, and many more

Recipes are graded on a scale of 1, 2, and 3 to indicate level of difficulty. Most recipes fall into categories 1 and 2, but adventurous home chefs will want to impress guests with creations from category 3. The book's introduction includes practical suggestions regarding ingredients, preparation methods, and baking equipment. This handsome volume features a ribbon place marker, gold-tipped page edges, and more than 250 color photos.