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

Simple easily followed recepies.

"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.

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.

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 recipes I've tried while good, just don't have much punch. I'm planning on trying vanilla, almond or orange extract to jazz them up where I can. Very healthy stuff, though.

I wanted a book that would help me give up sugar and sweeteners. While this book meets that criteria, the recipes are hit and miss.

I am a bariatric bypass patient, and wanted to try the sugar free recipes.

Ok!

Fast, accurate description of the item, well packed- no surprises... DavidI 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.