(Not So) Sweets, by Pam Harris
Special occasions call for special desserts - creamy chocolate mousse, delicate almond spice cookies, gorgeous custard-filled cream puffs. But for people on sugar-restricted diets, truly tasty sweets like these are hard to come by.
Enter (Not So) Sweets, an ebook of beautiful recipes made without refined white sugar. Pam Harris is an avid baker and treat-maker, who had to adjust her cooking style when members of her family developed blood sugar issues.
After much trial and error, Pam learned a great deal about how to make low-sugar and sugar-free desserts taste as good as the "real thing," and she developed a whole bag of tricks for converting her family's favorite recipes to safer versions. In (Not So) Sweets, she shares her favorite sugar-free and low-sugar dessert recipes - the ones that even her sugar-eating tasters love!
This collection of six recipes is presented with thorough step-by-step photo instructions, so each one is easy to make - including the cream puffs and blintzes! And better yet, Pam offers a wealth of tips for reducing the sugar content of dessert recipes, so you can begin experimenting with your own family's favorites.
Table of Contents:
- Why Bake with Less Sugar?
- Tips for Baking with Less Sugar
- Recipe: Chocolate Mousse
- Tips on Low-Sugar Chocolates
- Recipe: Cheese Blintz
- Recipe: Linzer Cookies
- Tips for Measuring Flour
- Recipe: Custard Cream Puffs
- Recipe: Oatmeal Cookies
- Recipe: Panna Cotta
- Recipe: Double-Frosted Bourbon Brownies
Whether you're cooking for a family celebration, surprising a friend, or trying to reduce the refined sugar in your own diet, (Not So) Sweets will give you plenty of inspiration.
(Not So) Sweets is 27 pages, formatted to read easily on your computer screen. Each recipe can be printed individually to use in your kitchen.
Here are a few details that might be important to readers on sugar-restricted diets:
• These recipes are sweetened primarily with Splenda no-calorie sweetener. Three of them contain minute amounts of brown sugar as well.
• These recipes contain between zero and four grams of sugar per serving.
• For sugar-restricted diets, even safer treats like these should be enjoyed in moderation.
About The Author:
Pam Harris is a cook, crafter, and photographer who blogs at Gingerbread Snowflakes. She's been concocting delicious desserts for over 40 years.
