Great Good Desserts Naturally!

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Summary: The best vegan baking book I've ever read
Review: This is a great book for people who don't want to use dairy or butter but want bakery items that taste as good as "standard" bakery and pastry. The book has very handy sections regarding the variety of sweeteners, the proper measurements to adapt cookware and other helpful hints. The coffeecake is AMAZING. Another big bonus: your friends/kids/relatives who live on Ding-Dongs and Hostess Fried Pies will like it too.

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Summary: Great Good Desserts Delivers -- and kids love it, too
Review: This is the best dessert book I ever used. It's clear and well organized with a lot of information but isn't overwhelming. The author has made baking without milk and eggs VERY simple and easy. I am a mom and my kids like desserts that taste good. Me too. I want us to stay away from dairy and eggs and junk but not feel deprived. I have tried many of these recipes -- they WORK and seem to be pretty forgiving -- a good thing because I am a new at baking and make a few goofs... The brownies and chocolate cake are beyond delicious. I made the lemon cake and vanilla cakes several times for parties. They make great cupcakes for kids parties too; iced with the chocolate peanut butter filling from another recipe. The recipes are easy to use in different ways. My friends didn't even ask how I made these without milk, butter, eggs, because they couldn't tell. Hope Fran writes another book because I'm working my way through all the recipes in this one fast.

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Summary: Great Good Desserts Delivers -- and kids love it, too
Review: This is the best dessert book I ever used. It's clear and well organized with a lot of information but isn't overwhelming. The author has made baking without milk and eggs VERY simple and easy. I am a mom and my kids like desserts that taste good. Me too. I want us to stay away from dairy and eggs and junk but not feel deprived. I have tried many of these recipes -- they WORK and seem to be pretty forgiving -- a good thing because I am a new at baking and make a few goofs... The brownies and chocolate cake are beyond delicious. I made the lemon cake and vanilla cakes several times for parties. They make great cupcakes for kids parties too; iced with the chocolate peanut butter filling from another recipe. The recipes are easy to use in different ways. My friends didn't even ask how I made these without milk, butter, eggs, because they couldn't tell. Hope Fran writes another book because I'm working my way through all the recipes in this one fast.

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Summary: Pure Decadence
Review: To anyone who has been clipping Fran Costigan's recipes from natural food magazines over the past several years, this book is a must. Fran is queen of pure, whole food ingredients when it comes to taking grandma's recipes and giving them a healthy makeover. From flaky piecrusts WITHOUT artery-clogging shortening, to decorator icings that won't make you feel deprived, Fran's recipes are truly "to-live-for."

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Summary: Healthy sweets
Review: Yes, this book is fantastic. No eggs and no butter, so less or 0% colesterol. But for all the people who are new to healthy baking and cooking, and think of buying this book, be ready to order some natural ingredients, such as maple sugar and syrup, rice syrup, soymilk, arrowroot, agar-agar, and others. If this is not a problem for you, this book is what you are looking for. There are sources where you can order these ingredients, what helps a lot.

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Summary: Great Good Desserts Naturally
Review: Yummy deserts and lots of chocolate (in sauces, brownies, cakes and cream for inside the cakes) in this cookbook along with important tips on using natural baking ingredients and cookware so the recipes turn out mighty tasty! I much appreciate the well communicated insider's knowledge on how to best use whole wheat flour, kuzu, tofu, arrowroot, maple syrup , rice sweetener and other natural ingredients.