American Heart Association Low-Fat & Luscious Desserts: Cakes, Cookies, Pies, and Other Temptations [Hardcover]

American Heart Association (Author)

Book Description

Series: American Heart Association | Publication Date: November 14, 2000

With its first-ever dessert cookbook, the American Heart Association proves that you can indulge in soul-satisfying desserts -- and still keep your heart healthy and your waistline trim. These sweet treats are heavy on decadence, but light on saturated fat, cholesterol, and calories. Here are more than 100 mouthwatering recipes, every one of which can fit into a healthful eating plan.

Whether you want to pack a special treat into a lunch box, whip up a quick goodie to end a weekday meal, or create a show-stopping finish to a birthday, dinner party, holiday feast, or other special occasion, here are your answers. You'll satisfy the most discriminating sweet tooth with these delectable, easy-to-prepare cakes, cookies, puddings, pies, fruit treats, and frozen delights -- and, of course, chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate!

With its gorgeous photography, this beautiful volume will be the perfect finale to your American Heart Association cookbook collection.

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

With its first-ever dessert cookbook, the American Heart Association proves that you can indulge in soul-satisfying desserts -- and still keep your heart healthy and your waistline trim. These sweet treats are heavy on decadence, but light on saturated fat, cholesterol, and calories. Here are more than 100 mouthwatering recipes, every one of which can fit into a healthful eating plan.

Whether you want to pack a special treat into a lunch box, whip up a quick goodie to end a weekday meal, or create a show-stopping finish to a birthday, dinner party, holiday feast, or other special occasion, here are your answers. You'll satisfy the most discriminating sweet tooth with these delectable, easy-to-prepare cakes, cookies, puddings, pies, fruit treats, and frozen delights -- and, of course, chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate!

With its gorgeous photography, this beautiful volume will be the perfect finale to your American Heart Association cookbook collection.

About the Author

The American Heart Association is the nation's premier authority on heart health. Its best-selling library of cookbooks and guides includes The New American Heart Association Cookbook; American Heart Association Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol Cookbook; American Heart Association Meals in Minutes Cookbook; American Heart Association Quick & Easy Cookbook; American Heart Association Kids' Cookbook; and American Heart Association Around the World Cookbook. The organization is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with affiliates that serve the entire United States. For more information, please see www.americanheart.org.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter (November 14, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812933362
• ISBN-13: 978-0812933369
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.8 x 9.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #118,431 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #24 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Diets & Weight Loss > American Heart Association

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous, September 6, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: American Heart Association Low-Fat & Luscious Desserts: Cakes, Cookies, Pies, and Other Temptations (Hardcover)

This book is fabulous. If I hadn't seen in the title that it was lower in fat and better for you I would have thought the desserts were from the full fat foods. These were easy and tasty.

29 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Low Fat??? Doesn't taste like it!, November 15, 2000

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George Geary "Cookbook Writer" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: American Heart Association Low-Fat & Luscious Desserts: Cakes, Cookies, Pies, and Other Temptations (Hardcover)

This book is great! As a co-recipe developer on this book I am proud to say that i had a part in the fantastic recipes. Try the pecan cookies or the german chocolate cake. The Orange Bread pudding with sauce is so rich you will need a glass of milk. I have been teaching "fattening" pastry classes for years and this year I replaced a few of the recipes with these and people do not even know. Try it on your family!

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great suggestions as well as recipes, May 1, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: American Heart Association Low-Fat & Luscious Desserts: Cakes, Cookies, Pies, and Other Temptations (Hardcover)

Lots of great recipes that don't have icky ingredients and great suggestions on how to modify your own recipes.