Customer Reviews

The Healthy Oven Baking Book: Delicious reduced-fat deserts with old-fashioned flavor

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4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
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Sarah Phillips cuts through much of the hype over low-fat baking to offer up an easy-to-use cookbook that allows those with middle-American palates to enjoy healthy eating. While most low-fat books sacrifice flavor for lower-fat counts, use hard-to-find ingredients, or bizarre techniques that leave many cooks stumped, Sarah explains her techniques for light cakes, decadent chocolate cheesecakes and impossibly low-fat cookies clearly. And best of all, she uses ingredients anyone can find at the local supermarket!

Healthy eating isn't just a choice, but a necessity for anyone facing weight or health-related challenges. Her book's clear dietary information makes selecting the appropriate recipe easy.

Joyous baking!

Dear Sarah:

What I like about your book is that it has all the information that I have been stumbling to discover on my own by experimenting. I am always transforming recipes into lower fat recipes and I also have the added challenge of substituting honey, maple syrup, etc. for refined sugar. My baking is limited to quickbreads and muffins so those are my favorite recipe parts of the book, however I'm sure once I have time to get to the desserts, it will become another favorite. They look absolutely fabulous!

"Healthy Oven Basics" is another part of the book that's very valuable to me. It's really a blessing. It's just saved me an incredible amount of time and money in trial and error experimenting. I was just starting to get some of these ideas down on my own, but you have really got them down to a science.

I also like the way that the "dry" ingredients are separated from the "wet" in the ingredients list. The color of the print is great, the font is very readable and I love the nutritional analysis of each recipe. The drawings are also nicely distributed. Thank you for a very valuable addition to my library.

Sincerely,

Seppo Ed Farrey

Sarah Phillips has a lot of great ideas. However, this cookbook doesn't deserve a 5-star rating because:

(1) some of her recipes have more sugar than most.

(2) she included recipes that call for Healthy Oven Baking Mix, which I don't have & don't wish to purchase. Maybe I'm splitting hairs here, but I purchased the book thinking that all the recipes would be completely from scratch.

I made the overnite sugar cookies from Sara's book. They were wonderful. Would never guess they had only 2 grams of fat. I am very anxious to try her other recipes! It is great to make something that has only a few fat grams and the taste remains the same. Thank you Sarah!

I love this book. It's full of great recipes and ideas, and unlike other low-fat books, it doesn't call for ingredients with long lists of chemicals. Instead butter and fats are used sparingly for flavor and texture, but kept to a minimum. I agree with the author above when she says the chocolate cake is a winner. A big plus is the book's low price. Highly recommended!

Sarah Phillips "The Healthy Oven Baking Book" is exactly what I have been waiting for. It is easy to understand and also a wonderful read! All of the basics are here and a lot of surprises also. Plus, I have been waiting a long time for healthy Choc. Chips Cookies and also Choc. Cake. Well, Sarah has given those things back to all of us. Thanks Sarah!!

I have hundreds of cookbooks, but this one is going to be my favorite. I love dessert and have a hard time finding recipes that are healthy and that my family will enjoy. The recipes are easy and call for regular ingredients. There is nothing better than butter in a dessert and Sarah has found a way to use butter and still keep the recipe healthy.

Great Job, Sarah!

Yesterday I bought Sarah Phillip's book Healthy Oven Cookbook so I could surprise my husband with a cake on his birthday. I had thrown most of my cookbooks out when we recently moved and was longing for something new. The kids are grown and the cupboard was bare. This morning I read half the book and ran down to the A&P to get the ingredients for the cheese cake. That was my husband's favorite cake before he met me forty years ago. I can't stand cheesecake; it is too thick and it doesn't seem to breathe.But the recipe promised to give lightness. Everything went as planned, no hard tricks for a first time cheesecake maker. Presenting the cake will long be remembered. His eyes opened wide. I loved it! Now I know why my mother baked. It brought a smile I was waiting for. But best of all, more surprises await this cookbook. Although Ms. Phillips' inventions tend to save calories and lower fat, they do not make butter a bad word. Some of my fondest memories were linked to butter, Grandmother Dowling showed me how to put it in her bread pudding, mom showed me how to make hollandaise sauce, and I showered my children with the butter legacy. Ms. Phillips has introduced a new reader not only to her family, but to her healthy beliefs.

I am a new baker when it comes to healthy baking. I've only used gradma's recipies which are delicious but not very healthy. Sarah Philips has brought us both... healthy and delicious and also made it simple follow her directions. Thank you Sarah!

I love this Cookbook. I am retired and Lowfat Cooking and Baking is important to my wife and I. The recipes I have used were wonderful. I especially like all the crossover information Sarah has done.Its all right there, very easy to use. Plus her Web Site is a Godsend. Use it all the time. Highly Recommend it and the Cookbook.