Cook It Light Desserts - Hardcover

Jones, Jeanne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0025597744 ISBN 13: 9780025597747

Publisher: Macmillan General Reference, 1994

Synopsis

Gathers healthful recipes for low-fat, low-sodium, and low-cholesterol desserts, including cakes, pies, fruit desserts, crepes, and mousses

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Jones, a newspaper columnist (Cook It Light) and the author of other books in the similarly named series, offers a collection of 200 mostly standard desserts whose fat, calorie, cholesterol and sodium contents are reduced by fairly well-known means. Fruit desserts include a fruit gazpacho and microwaved peaches served with a ricotta-based "pastry cream." Among the pie recipes are buttermilk pie, with a crust made using reduced-fat Bisquick; and cinnamon apple tarts, in which phyllo sheets, lightly coated with vegetable oil spray, enfold apples poached with sugar and spice. Cakes and cookies often substitute such pureed fruits as prunes and apples for shortening; her strawberry cake is based on white cake mix; cranberry bars call for canned whole-berry sauce. Jones includes calorie, fat-gram, cholesterol and sodium analyses per serving of each recipe; serving sizes are generally small. While most of the recipes are reduced-calorie versions of fat-filled familiars, two interesting low-cal exceptions are gingered bananas and a marsala-laced peach granita.
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From Booklist:

Jones whips up a low-fat, low-sodium, low-cholesterol, and low-calorie collection of more than 200 recipes, this time focusing on desserts. She's quite straightforward about the fact that some sweets--cookies and candies, most notably--cannot be transformed well into light versions. Based on both her spa cuisine creations and newspaper reader requests, her substitutes for much-loved traditional treats will sate the taste for something sweet, nonetheless. Helpful hints are also interspersed: for instance, a hairdryer unmolds mousses better than hot water does, and baking sheets should be lined with parchment paper instead of coated with a nonstick spray. Barbara Jacobs

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan General Reference
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0025597744
• ISBN 13: 9780025597747
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248