Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780007420155
• ISBN10: 0007420153
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2012-02-14
• Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Summary

From Gooey Chocolate Souffle to Lemon Drizzle Cake, how to enjoy delicious desserts, perfect pastries, cookies, and cakes as part of a healthy lifestyle Home cook and heart-attack survivor Sally Bee knows better than anyone how to incorporate healthy eating into a busy lifestyle with her gorgeous, flavorsome and balanced recipes. Here she turns her attention to the sweet things in life, showing cooks how to make healthier versions of much-loved desserts, and demonstrating that a sensible attitude and a bit of creative cooking is all that's needed to spoil one's taste buds the healthier way. She shares helpful tips, advice, and experience to show how to make compensations for "naughty" ingredients by adding more of the good stuff. Recipes include Raspberry and Peanut Butter Mini Muffins, Amaretti Biscuit and Fruit Layer Pudding, Chocolate Mousse, Peach and Strawberry Sorbet, Beer Bread, Wholemeal Banana Muffins, Hazelnut Meringue Cake, Almond Macaroons, Hazelnut and Raisin Bread, Chocolate Almond Torte, and Fruit Crumble. Includes dual measures.

Author Biography

Sally Bee is the author of The Secret Ingredient. Her down-to-earth advice and realistic approach is borne from her own experience of life-threatening heart disease. She was blindsided by three heart attacks that nearly killed her when she was just 36—now five years later, she has recovered thanks to her own delicious and easy-to-follow eating plan.