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

"A Reader" from 1998 is reviewing the wrong book. "Sweet and Sugar Free" by Karen E. Barkie, does not contain any recipes calling for date flour. The book "A Reader" is referring to is called "Cook With Me SUGAR FREE" by Sharon D. Gerstenzang. It is also available here at Amazon, and is an excellent book. This book, "Sweet & Sugar Free" by Karen E. Barkie, is also an excellent book. The recipes are not as simple as your recipes calling for 2 eggs, 2 cups of sugar and 2 cups of flour. When cooking with fruits and fruit juices, you need slighly different techniques to come up with a tasty finished product. That said, the techniques are explained in detail and after making a few of them, you really feel confident enough to try to alter some of your own recipes, to make them with fruit juices instead of sugar or honey. Karen Barkie's recipes are reliable. The baked goods have a nice texture, a sweet flavor, and are family-friendly. After learning and experimenting with fruit-sweetened recipes and techniques, the recipes become quite easy. If you are avoiding artificial sweeteners or sugar, honey and other sweeteners that send your insulin soaring, these recipes will really hit the spot. They taste good, feel good in your mouth, satisfy the kids, and are relatively inexpensive easy to prepare.

I replaced my book. I love this book for healthy baking without sugar nor using sugar free substitutions like stevia. Instead use bananas, unsweetened applesauce. In marketing there is a difference between sugar free and unsweetened. I go with unsweetened.

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I owned this book before and loaned it to someone and we'll didn't get it back! I highly recommend it!!! It is wonderful it will change your life and help you keep from being unhealthy and overweight! It had changed my life!

The original cookbook is very good. That's why I tried to get it in a Kindle version. However, it's completely unusable due to OCR glitches and mistakes. It's clear, no one proofread the final version. AT ALL. It's a disaster. Waste of $10. Thanks awfully!

Just received today and have been looking through it. Wish I'd had this book years ago. I've already been converting other recipes to "no sugar added" by using fruit juice concentrate (apple mostly), and this book offers additional guidance. I like experimenting so might not follow all recipes exactly as written, but there are definitely some good ideas here.

It's a wonderful book. Very much appreciate Ms. Barkie's efforts to make desserts healthier & with natural sweeteners. Bought my copy several decades ago & purchased this as a gift for a relative. She is very excited about it, too & can't wait to try the recipes for her family.

Yes, these recipes can be a little bland, and they aren't really low-calorie, but for novice bakers who want to cut refined sugar out of their diets, this book provides basic recipes that are easy to liven up. I for one need to know how much flour, baking soda, oil, etc. to use. The author herself offers many suggestions for toppings and mix-ins to help sweeten or spice up these recipes. The fruit breads, for example. are really good with some no-sugar-added jams swirled into the batter. And I double or triple the spices called for. Finally, it's important to remember that this book came out decades before natural sugar substitutes like Stevia (although it's not a good idea to go overboard on that because of the licorice undertaste, but 4 packets for the fruit breads is about right to me). Don't expect to duplicate the taste of your favorite sugary snacks. Fruit juice-sweetened recipes are different - but I for one have come to prefer them.

Fast, accurate description of the item, well packed- no surprises... David I was thinking that with this fantastic grade every extra word is just deminishing the total positive impact....

Okay if you're very fond of bananas, cinnamon and nutmeg, don't mind measuring the ingredients in cups and like your custard sauce sliceable.