Skinny Cookies, Cakes & Sweets

Over 100 healthful low-calorie recipes for America's favorite desserts-all with 250 or fewer calories per serving. Nutrition counts. 134 pgs. All the recipes are low in fat, too, conforming American Heart Assoc. guidelines of 30 percentor fewer calories from fat.

Fruit-Sweet & Sugar-Free

Prizewinning American and French bakery favorites go healthful & keep great taste, texture and appearance Color photos.

Dream Desserts

Luscious recipes - low fat, low cholesterol, reduced calorie - containing no artificial or health store ingredients.

How Sweet It Is...Without the Sugar

Jean C. Wade, a diabetic herself, has created a cookbook that is chock-full of welcome answers to the dilemma that plagues diabetics and dieters alike: how do you make delectable desserts without using sugar, honey, corn syrup or molasses—all those high calorie sweeteners that make blood sugar take off like a rocket? By carefully testing and experimenting with different sweeteners on the market, and often using fresh ripe fruits and juices, Jean has come up with nearly 100 great recipes that avoid the usual pitfalls of baking without sugar. And she provides fructose-based alternatives in every recipe for people who don't eat man-made sweeteners.

Christmas Cookies

With tips for baking, decorating, storing, and wrapping cookies, here are 24 delcious recipes, including: Traditional cookies from around the world Special cookies to give as gifts Cookies kida love to make... and eat!

Shortbread

Not just for teatime anymore, this tasty Scottish cousin to our old friend biscotti is as delicious savory as sweet--and a snap to make. A handsome invitation to a host of baking, serving, and nibbling pleasures, whether midsummer picnic or Christmastide fete, Shortbread includes White Chocolate and Raspberry Shortbread, Almond Shortbread Bars with Burnt Sugar Icing, White Cheddar Bacon Crackers, and more.

Great American Dessert

Try shoofly pie, angel food cake, key lime pie, butterscotch pudding, or Boston cream pie. Anecdotal and historical information on the origin of each dessert.

Joy of Pastry

Expand your baking repertoire with 100+ recipes for classic cakes and pies, fruit-filled tarts and turnovers, croissants and puff pastries, more.

La Dolce Vita

Now in paperback, this divine cookbook includes favorite Italian desserts: simple sweets served both at home and in trattorias and cafes throughout Italy. More than two dozen cookie recipes include authentic almond-laced Biscotti di Prato, classic sesame cookies known as Biscotti Regina and lemony butter rings. Flaky tarts are filled with everything from fruit jams and Arborio rice to sweet berries and lemon and chocolate. Cooling, delicate Italian ices are intensely flavored with mint, sparkling white wine and peaches and raspberries. To round out this scrumptious collection, the author has included recipes for simple fruit and cheese desserts, dessert sauces, explanations of Italian dessert wines and after dinner digestiviand, of course, how to brew a perfect cup of Italian coffee.

Christmas Baking

Want to jazz up your holiday baking without getting frazzled? Then you'll love this easy to follow step-by-step guide to traditional northern European Christmas recipes.

Chocolate Book

This small volume is a treasure chest of recipes, tools, and tips to make scrumptious chocolate desserts. From traditional to elegant, you'll find chocolate desserts to satisfy the cravings of the most ardent chocolate lover.

Have Your Cake & Eat It Too

Child Award. Desserts move from a no-no to a yes-yes in this amazing collection of 200 low-fat recipes using natural ingredients.

All The Best Cookies

Delectable no-fuss recipes to make quickly with readily available ingredients. One of a series of seven by Joie Warner. 60+ recipes.

Simply Divine

Just about any irresistible, totally decadent dessert anyone could ever want is made inspiringly simple in this comprehensive dessert extravaganza. Both the traditional recipes and more exotic concoctions promise divine results. Specially crafted to be faster and generally easier to make, these are recipes every busy cook needs! Among the deliciously easy indulgences are Chocolate Cream Dream Cake, Italian Rum Cake, and Marbled Brownies.

Cindy's Itty Bitty Baking Book

Unique recipes for bite-sized (but packed with flavor) cookies & crackers from Cindy's Santa Fe Bite-Size Bakery. Illustrated.

Pastry Magic

Simple techniques turn snacks, starters, entrees & desserts into visual delights. 14 different pastry types plus painted & glazed salt doughs. 30+ recipes.