Sweet and Sugar Free: An All Natural Fruit-Sweetened Dessert Cookbook

by Karen E. Barkie

At last there's a way to have your cake without the calories and harmful effects of sugar, honey and artificial sweeteners. Karen Barkie has created over 200 imaginative and easy-to-follow recipes for cakes, pies, cookies, breads, sherberts, custard, and much more, sweetened with a variety of fruit and fruit juices--and without one spoonful of sugar! Luscious pinepple cream pie, easy-to-make apple raisin bars, and peach cheesecake are but a few of the delectable--and wholesome--treats in Sweet and Sugarfree . Complete with charts listing caloric and nutritional values, tips on baking with a dozen different flours, and instructions for creating hundreds of toppings and fruit combinations, Sweet and Sugarfree is a delicious contribution to the better health of us all.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food

192 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 1982

Reviews

[HeavyReader · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got this book at a tent sale at Half Price Books in Austin. I think I paid a dollar.

It's full of recipes for sweets without sugar. I don't cook much out of it because it seems to call for ingredients that I don't already have around the house. Also, the recipes are decidedly not vegan, so the recipes don't work if you're going to be feeding people who don't eat animal products. Also, I don't cook desserts much, and when I do, I tend to go with my tried and true vegan chocolate cake and peanut butter-banana- chocolate chip bread (which is really a cake).

There was a recipe that I made a couple of times out of this book that I liked; I think it was the tropical fruit bars. (The end result was actually more like a cake, high and light and fluffy, and less like the granola bars that I had imagined.)

When I hit the road, I left this book behind. I got another copy for free from the recent Freecycle windfall. Nice.

[Deb · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am having fun with this little book that I bought for $1 at a library sale. It uses fruit and fruit juices for sweetening desserts.

The Banana Jam is easy and delicious (see blog post here: http://kahakaikitchen.blogspot.com/20...) and I have seveal other recipes tagged.

[Sue · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some very interesting recipes which use fruit (fresh, frozen, canned or dried) instead of sugar to sweeten cakes, pastries and desserts. Rather acquired tastes... I prefer to add at least a little honey, and they don't keep at all (sugar is preservative) but several useful ideas.

[Abraham Ray · Rating 2 out of 5]

I registered a book at BookCrossing.com!
http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/11479085
not a very big fruit eater myself.