Raw for Dessert: Easy Delights for Everyone - Softcover

Jennifer Cornbleet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570672369 ISBN 13: 9781570672361

Publisher: Book Publishing Company (TN), 2009

Synopsis

Now you can have your cake and eat it too! You can stay vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, or just plain health-conscious and still eat delicious cakes, pies, compotes, crumbles, custards, sorbets, ice creams, cookies, and candies!

Jennifer Cornbleet, author of the best selling Raw Food Made Easy for 1 or 2 People, shares her favorite easy no-bake treats. Learn how to:

• Avoid white sugar, white flour, dairy products, trans-fats, saturated fats, and processed foods
• Make easy-to-follow recipes quickly and affordably
• Enjoy desserts for every occasion: Summer Berry Compote, Caramel Apple Stacks, Creme Brulee, Pineapple Upside Down Cake, Chocolate Cupcakes, Coconut Cream Pie, Tropical Ambrosia Tart, Pine Nut Caramels, Concord Grape Sorbet, Cookies n Cream Ice Cream, Knockout Brownie Sundae . . .

About this title

From the Author:

Hello, I'm Jennifer Cornbleet, and I'd like to invite you to dig in to dessert, without using processed foods or turning on the stove. 

Raw food dessert recipes let you take what's already good and good for you - fruits, nuts, and other natural products -- and make them better.  Mother Nature does most of the work, but you can take all the credit by simply combining ingredients in a way you may not have thought of before:

• Mix grapefruit juice, filtered water, and agave syrup and -- with the help of an ice cube tray - create a flavor-rich citrus granita in just a few hours. 
• Combine frozen raspberries with nothing more than sweet dates and filtered water for a delicious jam that tastes like fruit, not sugar.
• Dress mangoes in lemon juice, cinnamon, and agave syrup for a fruit carpaccio that you can serve as the perfect finish to an elegant dinner party.
• Process mashed avocado, vanilla bean, and natural sweetners to create a faux 'creme anglaise' to bring drizzle over pineapple upside down cake or puddle under chocolate brownies.
• Transform cocoa powder, cocoa powder, maple syrup, dates, and coconut oil into homemade chocolate candy cups that you can fill with ice cream.
• Combine cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and ground cloves with raw nuts, fresh and dried fruit, and a whisper of maple syrup for a flavorful spice cake that's gluten-free.
• Use nut milk (made by soaking raw in filtered water) to create luxuriantly rich dairy-free ice cream that you can flavor with vanilla, coffee, mint and other natural flavors.
• Combine raw almonds, cinnamon, nutmeg, and maple syrup to satisfy your craving for a New Orleans-style praline without butter or brown sugar.

Raw desserts are ideal for anyone who doesn't want to sacrifice good health for good taste.  The ingredients aren't processed or heated, so they're loaded with vitamins, enzymes, fiber, and scrumptious natural flavor.  Plus there's no trace of trans-fats, chemicals, animal products, corn syrup, or other unhealthy ingredients that are typically part of the manufacturing process.

Raw food recipes have been rapidly gaining in popularity as more and more people realize that raw food is good food.  It's rich with the satisfying flavors, aromas, colors, and textures that make eating a pleasure.  That's why you can now find raw food and raw food desserts featured on the menus of elegant restaurants around the world.

Home chefs are learning that it's fast, easy, and inexpensive to 'bake up' raw desserts with fresh ingredients.  And the great thing about raw desserts is that you can use the foods you already enjoy to make irresistible cakes, pies, ice cream, and confections everyone will love. 

Easy Raw Dessert Substitutions You Can Make

• Choose organic ingredients that are produced without pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, antibiotics, or any type of synthetic materials and chemicals.
• Instead of flour, use ground nuts as the base for crusts for pies and tarts.
• Make the switch to raw nuts which, unlike the roasted variety, are made without additives, preservatives, or processed ingredients.
• Say 'no' to sugar and 'yes' to nectar, honey, and dried fruits when you want to add sweetness.
• Skip butter, cream, and eggs and replace the 'bad' cholesterol in typical sweets with the 'good' cholesterol of avocado and coconut.

Simply put, desserts don't have to be damaging to be delicious when they're made with natural, raw ingredients.

From the Back Cover:

Now you can have your cake and eat it too! You can stay vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, or just plain health-conscious and still eat delicious cakes, pies, compotes, crumbles, custards, sorbets, ice creams, cookies, and candies! Raw food instructor and chef Jennifer Cornbleet shares her favorite no-bake treats. Learn how to make easy to follow recipes quickly and affordably and at the same time avoid white sugar, white flour, dairy products, trans-fats, saturated fats, and processed foods. There are delicious desserts for every occasion including Summer Berry Compote, Caramel Apple Stacks, Pineapple Upside Down Cake, Chocolate Cupcakes, Coconut Cream Pie, Tropical Ambrosia Tart, Knockout Brownie Sundae and dozens more.

About this edition

• Publisher: Book Publishing Company (TN)
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1570672369
• ISBN 13: 9781570672361
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128