Simple Treats: A Wheat-Free, Dairy-Free Guide to Scrumptious Baked Goods [Paperback]

Ellen Abraham (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2003

For anyone allergic to wheat or dairy, finding a good dessert can be a challenge. Welcome to the wonderful world of Simple Treats. Those who might need wheat-free baked goods or are simply looking for alternatives to traditional sugar-, fat-, and dairy-laden desserts can now enjoy scrumptious baked confections.

This collection of recipes for tried and true delicacies and best-sellers are from Simple Treats Bakery on Cape Cod in Eastham, Massachusetts. They are straight-forward, easy to follow, and turn out great. Enjoy making muffins and breads, cookies, cakes, cremes, frostings, and glazes. Includes tips for baking vegan-style, stocking a baking pantry, and sources for ingredients and equipment.

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About the Author

Ellen Abraham, together with her sister Jill, developed a line of wheat- and dairy-free pastries that they sold at their bakery, Simple Treats, in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. These products are now sold commercially.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Book Publishing Company (TN) (March 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570671370
• ISBN-13: 978-1570671371
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #557,860 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I FINALLY FOUND THE VEGAN BAKING BOOK I WAS LOOKING FOR!!!, April 19, 2005

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Teresa Aguilar "whatagig" (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Simple Treats: A Wheat-Free, Dairy-Free Guide to Scrumptious Baked Goods (Paperback)

WHAT A RELIEF! I really appreciate the fact that I can offer my kids (and friends and family) treats that won't do their bodies harm. Thankfully, I stumbled across an ad for this cookbook on a vegan website and decided to click the link. Now I don't have to spend time experimenting on desserts anymore! My main reason for buying this book was because the author created recipes that are not only vegan but also healthy. There is absolutely no white flour or white sugar in any of them, not even wheat, nothing processed. You'd think...how could a recipe with ingredients like barley flour or maple syrup work, right? It does! Believe me, I've been sharing the cookies with my omnivore friends, and they LOVE them--even the kids! I just got the book about two weeks ago and have already tried 4 types of cookies (pecan sandies, oatmeal raisin, cashew thumbprints, and cinnamon crisps) and two types of muffins (blueberry and corn). Overall they were EXCELLENT! My mistake with the corn muffins was that I should have added a little extra liquid which the author noted I might need. I plan on working my way through the whole book. There are all kinds of quick breads, muffins, scones, cookies, brownies, blondies, cakes, cremes, frostings, fillings, and glazes. Plus, it's written very simply, and the recipes can be put together in no time at all. I've even been in touch with the author through emails. She happily answered all of my questions. Check out her website. http://www.simpletreats.com/ It's on line store. She bakes and sells all the goodies in this book and ships them to you (if you don't want to do the work yourself). I'd encourage anyone who loves to bake and is also concerned about using healthy ingredients to purchase Simple Treats today because it's a winner! DELICIOUS!

45 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't forget like I did --- Wheat-free is not gluten-free, July 23, 2005

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D. Olsen (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Simple Treats: A Wheat-Free, Dairy-Free Guide to Scrumptious Baked Goods (Paperback)

I really wasn't thinking when I ordered this book. I'm sensitive to dairy and gluten,and I try to avoid white sugar, so I've had a difficult time finding recipes for treats. Gluten-free recipes tend to have processed sugar. Recipes using sugar alternatives like fruit juice (not artificial sweeteners - yuck) tend to use gluten grains. Barley flour is the flour used in this cookbook. I could probably come up with a gluten-free alternative, but I don't know how to substitute for oatmeal. All the cookie recipes, except macaroons, have oatmeal. But the recipes sound fabulous, so if you don't have a problem with gluten, I'd give it a try. I'm definitely going to try substituting the flour in some of the muffin and bread recipes.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars YUM! the greatest vegan desserts ever!, September 19, 2004

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Michelle and Natalie (Asheville, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Simple Treats: A Wheat-Free, Dairy-Free Guide to Scrumptious Baked Goods (Paperback)

We LOVE this cookbook! We became vegan when we saw the bumper sticker that said, "Why do you love animals called pets but eat animals called dinner?". The transition was easy when we realized that a vegan lifestyle would not only save, on average, 89 animals' lives per year but also dramatically improve our own health and be better for the environment. But for years, we tried to bake vegan desserts and were always disappointed with the results (quite a letdown for chocoholics like ourselves) . . . until "Simple Treats" came along! The recipes are very, very easy to follow--truly simple--with incredible (and much healthier) results! All ingredients are easy-to-find and available at grocery stores or health food stores. For the first few months we did not try anything new because every time we wanted dessert we made the delicious Chocolate Chip Cookies (two batches at a time). We finally moved on to the Blondies . . . and today we made the decadent Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Tofu Creme Frosting (this tasty concoction is what inspired us to take the time to review the book). This is THE dessert cookbook to buy and we truly cannot imagine life without it!