Naturally Sweet Desserts: The Sugar-free Dessert Cookbook [Paperback]

Marcea Weber (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1989

Sticky, gooey, sweet desserts are indulgent, unhealthy, and loaded with calories--right? Wrong. Not if you serve the pastries, cakes, pies, shakes, and other goodies included in this creative cookbook. None of the recipes uses refined sugar or processed foods, and few require dairy products.

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Avery (December 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895294435
• ISBN-13: 978-0895294432
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,188,250 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The one book I'll return, June 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Naturally Sweet Desserts: The Sugar-free Dessert Cookbook (Paperback)

Healthy? Almost all of the cake and cookie recipes call for eggs -- usually a minimum of 3 and most 6 or even 12! They have to be separated, so egg substitutes aren't an option... Convenient? If you happen to have 4 cups of dried apricots, maize flour and 3 cups of ground nuts to go in the 12 egg recipe... Thorough and tested? By the way, the recipe that lists apricots as an ingredient doesn't ever USE the apricots...

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is one bad cookbook!, October 6, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Naturally Sweet Desserts: The Sugar-free Dessert Cookbook (Paperback)

I just hate wasting my time trying to make a recipe from a cook book like this. For one thing, the author says things like, "Put batter in a pan." Um, what size pan?? And she makes no recommendations for which sweetener she uses for each recipe. Well, a half cup of raspberry jam used as a sweetener is going to have a whole different taste than a half cup of rice syrup. I have made one recipe from the book and it's a disaster; there was obviously a typo, probably in the amount of flour she says to use. I don't recommend this book to anyone.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Ideas, December 9, 2005

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This review is from: Naturally Sweet Desserts: The Sugar-free Dessert Cookbook (Paperback)

I agree with the other reviews that this book could have used a more discerning editor but there are some very helpful ideas in here for anyone trying to eliminate processed sugar from their diet. The sugar-free crumb toppings are a nice easy way to turn any fruit into a dessert and their are good substitutions recommended for sugar, dairy, chocolate, peanut butter, eggs and baking powder (which I hate to use). If you are a creative cook and baker and I think you will appreciate some of the authors ideas.