It's a Pleasure: Sweet Treats without Gluten, Dairy, and Refined Sugar
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It's a Pleasure: Sweet Treats without Gluten, Dairy, and Refined Sugar
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Overview
A delightful cookbook of decadent sweets and homemade treats that taste great, look beautiful, and have good health in mind. This enticing collection features easy recipes, made from high-quality, nutritious ingredients, for fabulous desserts that are gluten-free, dairy-free, and refined-sugar-free. With this inspiring book, award-winning Finnish author Virpi Mikkonen shows how easy it is to make sweet treats a truly enjoyable—and guilt-free—pleasure
It’s a Pleasure is a gorgeous guide to making delicious and wholesome desserts at home without sacrificing flavor. Featuring candies, cakes, pies, and more, the appealing recipes—such as gingerbread chocolate, cookie ice cream with salty peanuts, and cardamom-vanilla donuts—offer great-tasting, guilt-free pleasure and are suited for entertaining, gift giving, or everyday snacking.
Find inspiration for chocolate and candies, cakes and pies, ice creams and sorbets, jams, frostings and more! Recipes include: sea salt toffee bites; vanilla stars with chocolate hearts; frosty banana cake; blueberry cream cake; mango-melon sorbet cake; tiramisu ice cream cake; fig fudge; and licorice truffles.
Praise for It’s a Pleasure
“Mikkonen shares her secret concoctions for some incredibly delectable pastries, as well as confections like sea salt toffee candies and peanut toffee chocolates. But the standout recipes are those for Mikkonen’s rich but not too indulgent cakes. She creates decadent flavors with light, nutritious ingredients like coconut milk and almond flour, and the images in It’s a Pleasure are enough to make your mouth water.” —Vogue
“Mikkonen shares the virtues of sweets rather than their sins. Encouraging us to let go of the guilt often held when we decide to indulge in a cake loaded with refined white sugar and wheat. Completely banishing these two ingredients, she encourages the use of natural flavors and nutritious raw ingredients like coconut cream, dates and almond flour. With nature’s sweets and her creativity, Mikkonen makes equally or even better sweet indulgences compared to their refined sugar and wheat counterparts.” —Honest Cooking
“This aesthetically gorgeous compilation of sweets showcases how easy it is to make gluten, dairy and refined sugar-free recipes without sacrificing the flavor (or fun!) The book is a true dessert and foodie lover’s dream—a compendium of Instagram-worthy sweets, made from high-quality, nutritious ingredients.” —Chic Vegan
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681882499 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Weldon Owen |
| Publication date: | 07/02/2021 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 144 |
| File size: | 10 MB |
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Table of Contents
Introduction 7
About the Ingredients 8
Chocalate & Confections 10
Basic Chocolate 12
Chocolate Banana Bites 13
Mint Chocolate Squares 15
Peanut Toffee Chocolates 16
Nut Caramel Chocolates 18
Caramel Drops 21
Blueberry Chocolate 22
Orange Marzipan Bars 23
Sea Salt Toffee Candies 26
Rum Raisin Chocolate 28
Raspberry Yogurt Bar 29
Raw Chocolate Log 30
Spicy Chocolate Buttons 31
Gingerbread Chocolates 31
Fig Fudge 32
Chocolate Puffed Rice Squares 33
Licorice Truffles 34
Mint Chocolate Truffles 37
Coconut Milk Chocolate 38
Kids' Choice Chocolate 39
Caramel Apple Leather 40
Vanilla Strawberry Leather 40
Raspberry Sticks 42
Fat Licorice Candies 44
Vanilla Coconut Buttons with Hearts of Chocolate 47
Cake & Pies 48
Strawberry Rose Cake 50
Frostbitten Banana Cake 53
Lotta's Cake 54
Lime Chocolate Cake 57
Whipped Coconut Cream Chocolate Cake 58
Raw Carrot Cake 60
Cherry Dream Cake 63
Gorgeous Pancake Cake 64
Blueberry Dream Cake 67
The Perfect Apple Pie 69
Nut Brownie 70
Lemon Poppyseed Cake 72
Caramel Mud Pie 75
Pistachio Mint Chocolate Brownie 76
Fig Chocolate Tart 79
Lemon Pie 80
Manuka Blackcurrant Cake 82
Cookies, Muffins & Other Small Goods 84
Anise & Fig Cookies 86
Lace Cookies 88
Nut Banana Cookies 89
Cacao-Filled Hazelnut Cookies 91
Crunchy Chocolate Muffins 93
Nut Butter-Covered Mocha Muffins 94
Caramel Donuts 96
Cinnamon Chocolate Donuts 99
Cardamom Vanilla Donuts 100
Orange Flower Marzipan Buns 102
Ice Creams & Sorbets 104
Licorice Ice Cream 107
Cardamom Peach Ice Cream 108
Mango Melon Sorbet Cake 111
Cookie Ice Cream with Salted Peanuts 112
Artisanal Dreamsicles 115
Cherry-Chocolate Ice Cream 116
Eskimo Squares 119
Strawberry Rose Ice Cream 120
Tiramisu Ice Cream Cake 122
Garnishes, Jam & Spreads 124
Vanilla Coconut Butter 126
Chocolate Almond Butter 127
2 x Easy Chocolate Icing 128
Date Chocolate Icing 128
Avocado Chocolate Icing 128
Caramel Spread 131
Whipped Coconut Cream 132
Peanut Butter Spread 134
Dairy-Free Milk Alternatives 137
Almond Milk 137
Oat Milk 137
Sesame Milk 137
Dairy-Free Yogurts 138
Coconut Yogurt 138
Almond Yogurt 138
Chia Jams 140
Rose Raspberry Jam 140
Peach Lavender Jam 141
Index 142
Acknowledgments 144