Semi-Homemade Desserts: Easy Delicious Desserts and Nothing is Made from Scratch

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Summary: Do not waste your time or money
Review: This book is filled with recipes using name brand pre-processed food items. You don't eat a dessert everyday so why not use fresh ingredients without all the trans-fats, additives and preservatives that pre-processed food contain. Her idea of the a berry cobbler used canned berries and packaged sugar cookie dough, that would be so cloyingly sweet my teeth hurt just reading it. Please do not waste your money on this.

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Summary: You don't need fake food to make quick desserts...
Review: This book was such a disappointment. If I'm going to consume the extra calories, fat and sugar involved in dessert, I want to make sure it's a worthwhile experience. Taking a box of cookie dough powder and adding water DOES NOT EQUAL dessert. I'd rather have a bowl of strawberries with some softly whipped cream to which a drop of vanilla and a pinch of sugar have been added. And what's with the bagged angel food cake? I wouldn't use that stuff as a sponge to clean my bathroom - but Sandra Lee seems to love the stuff. Canned pie filling? Egads.

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Summary: So Easy, So Yummy!
Review: This cookbook is so helpful! And the recipes are so easy that my kids help me make them. My daughter especially likes the Frozen Cookie Cake. My husband has even requested it for his next birthday. I recommend this book to anyone who is really busy, but still wants to make tasty treats for and with their family. The semi-homemade approach fits our family perfectly!

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Summary: Bah.
Review: This dessert book was awful. The bizarre combination of ingredients left you with a big blob of "too sweet" in your mouth. The other posts I've read here are obviously employed by the "lifestylist" herself. Bah Humbug. This book goes in the trash.

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Summary: Bah.
Review: This dessert book was awful. The bizarre combination of ingredients left you with a big blob of "too sweet" in your mouth. The other posts I've read here are obviously employed by the "lifestylist" herself. Bah Humbug. This book goes in the trash.

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Summary: The New and Improved Martha Stewart
Review: To keep it simple I think this book was wonderful! For a mom on the go it was extrememly easy to read, full of readily available ingredients and well thought out recipes. All my desserts have been a huge hit with friends and family and I definately think this should be on your must have list this holiday season. My girlfriends have already requested it for Christmas and I plan to pass out the presents a little early this year....Holiday entertaing will be a snap from now on!
Move over Martha Stewart...Sandra Lee is here!

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Summary: Do Not Waste Your Time or Money
Review: What a pointless book! It is clearly nothing more than a marketing ploy. After all, why make something using expensive, bland pre-fab ingredients that will not save you any time and are expensive. In most instances cooking from scratch will at worst take no longer, will cost signifigantly less and will contain higher quality ingredients. You have to ask yourself if this woman actually cooks. And then to promote the pollution of the environment by suggesting disposable dinnerware as a matter of course so as to save washing up...? If you want a pre-fab food book, there must be others out there that are better but there are certainly none worse.