Krystine's Healthy Gourmet Bakery Cookbook

From her celebrated "bakery to the stars" in Brentwood, California, Krystine Crowell serves up sensational rich-tasting desserts that are unbelievably guilt-free. Her creations always fit into one or more healthy categories: fat-free, sugar-free, low-fat, low-sugar, reduced-cholesterol, or low-sodium.
From breads and muffins to buns and scones, to cookies and bars, to pies, tarts, and bombes, to fillings, frostings, and glazes - plus sugar-free desserts for diabetics - Krystine's Healthy Gourmet Bakery Cookbook offers an amazing array of desserts loved by Hollywood's biggest stars. Read more Continue reading Read less FROM BOOKLIST
Can "healthy" and "sugar" coexist in a recipe? According to Crowell and the celebrities who patronize her two Southern California bakeries, the answer is an emphatic yes. None of the author's tricks are particularly innovative; pureed fruits and liquid egg substitutes, for example, are used instead of extra sugar and whole eggs. Where she deviates from the dozens of other low-fat, no-fat cookbooks is in her combination of ingredients; old favorites share space with some new tastes. Best is the more-than-20-recipes chapter intended for strict diabetics; although some might question the stability of aspartame after heating, Crowell manages to shave additional calories from, say, a carob mousse or a blueberry oat bran muffin without sacrificing much of the sweetness. With Hollywood names mentioned or endorsing, demand is imminent. Metric conversion charts appended. Barbara Jacobs ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Krystine Crowell is the owner of the renowned Krystine's Healthy Gourmet Bakery in Southern California. She has provided her amazing baked goods to an all-star client list that includes Steven Spielberg, Meg Ryan, Warren Beatty, and Annette Bening. Read more Continue reading Read less