Even if you're a novice baker, you'll be able to make rich, moist cakes, delightful cookies, and flaky pie crust--all cholesterol free. Designed as a complete course in dairy- and egg-free baking, readers can still go directly to any recipe; each one is detailed and complete. You'll learn all the tricks of the trade for making and baking: gels, creams, mousses, puddings, and sauces, cookies, bars, little bites, cobblers, crisps, biscuits, muffins, cakes (basic to elaborate), pies and tarts as well as fillings, frostings, glazes, and frozen desserts.
Dessert lovers everywhere will be delighted with these sumptuous treats and now those who are lactose intolerant, watching their cholesterol, or simply health conscious can have their cake and eat it too.
Fran Costigan, a graduate of the New York Restaurant School and the Natural Gourmet Cookery School, has developed many courses at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts (including the Natural Pastry Arts Intensive) and at the Institute of Culinary Education. Fran lives in New York City. Her first book was Great Good Desserts Naturally.