Sweet & Skinny: 100 Recipes for Enjoying Life's Sweeter Side Without Tipping the Scales : A Baking Book

Sweet & Skinny: 100 Recipes for Enjoying Life's Sweeter Side Without Tipping the Scales : A Baking Book

by Marisa Churchill
Sweet & Skinny: 100 Recipes for Enjoying Life's Sweeter Side Without Tipping the Scales : A Baking Book

Sweet & Skinny: 100 Recipes for Enjoying Life's Sweeter Side Without Tipping the Scales : A Baking Book

by Marisa Churchill

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Overview

Professional pastry chef and Top Chef contestant shows you how to indulge in dessert while maintaining a healthy lifestyle with 100 low-fat recipes, including more than 25 sugar-free variations. 
           
In her debut cookbook, Marisa Churchill will show you how to pick the best ingredients, create contrasting textures, boost flavor with fresh fruit, herbs, and spices, and substitute lower-fat/lower-calorie alternatives without skimping on flavor. From quick weeknight desserts that can be ready in fewer than thirty minutes to elegant desserts for dinner parties and holidays, Sweet & Skinny gives readers all the skills and recipes they need to satisfy their cravings.
           
Hosting a dinner party? Wow your guests with Individual S’More Tarts, Goat Cheesecake with Figs, or perhaps a Rosemary Angel Food Cake with Lemon Glaze. Charged with a holiday dessert? How about Pear and Chocolate Upside-Down Cake, Orange-Chile Chocolate Bark, or Baked Apples with Maple-Gingersnap Stuffing? Faced with a sudden craving? Rest assured—No-Bake Cheesecake Cups with Concord Grapes, Molten Chocolate Soufflé Cake, and Mocha Affogato Milkshakes can be whipped up in minutes.  
          
For those who are trying to lose weight, have dietary restrictions, or are simply looking to decrease sugar, Sweet & Skinny offers a path to eating healthier and baking simpler by lowering fat and cooking smart, with everything in moderation.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307953377
Publisher: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Publication date: 06/07/2011
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 19 MB
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About the Author

MARISA CHURCHILL began her career as a pastry chef in the San Francisco area after graduating from culinary school in 2000. Her desserts have been widely praised and featured in publications such as Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, and Details. Marisa was among the forty top pastry chefs invited by Food Arts two years in a row for their annual pastry conference. She was a competitor on Bravo’s Top Chef: Season 2 and appeared on Food Network Challenge. For more information visit MarisaChurchill.com.

Recipe

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
Serves 4
Per serving : 220 calories , 12 grams fat
Nonstick pan spray
1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons plain nonfat Greekstyle yogurt
1 tablespoon liquid egg substitute
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/4 cup unsweetened Dutch-processed cocoa powder
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
2 egg whites from large eggs
1/3 cup sugar
4 teaspoons reduced-fat peanut butter, smooth or chunky, preferably natural style


My mother used to make individual chocolate cakes for me and my
playmates. Each having our own made us feel extra special. Years later,
I dusted off her recipe to prepare for old friends, adding a peanut butter
center for a sweet-salty twist.

Preheat the oven to 400°F with a rack in the center position. Coat
four 4-ounce ramekins or muffin cups with pan spray. If using
ramekins, set them on a rimmed baking sheet.

Melt the chocolate, butter, and 1 ½ tablespoons water in a double
boiler, or in a microwave oven, until you can stir the mixture smooth.
Whisk in the salt, yogurt, egg substitute, and vanilla. In a small bowl,
stir together the cocoa powder and flour.

Using a standing mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat the egg
whites on high speed until they are foamy. (Alternatively, use a handheld
electric mixer.) With the mixer running, gradually add the sugar,
a few teaspoons at a time. After all of the sugar is in, continue to mix
until soft, glossy peaks form, curling over when you lift the beater.

Fold the chocolate mixture into the egg whites until mostly combined.
Sift half of the cocoa mixture over the top and fold it in with a spatula.
Once it is mostly incorporated, sift the remaining cocoa mixture over
the top and fold until it is incorporated.

Spoon 1/4 cup of the batter into each prepared ramekin. Place 1 teaspoon
of the peanut butter in the center of each one, and cover the
peanut butter with a heaping tablespoon of batter.

Bake for 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake (not
the center) comes out clean. Set the ramekins on a wire rack and let
them cool for several hours.
To serve: Serve the cakes in the ramekins. If you used muffin cups,
unmold them before serving.

Store any leftover peanut butter cups, tightly wrapped, at room temperature
for up to 24 hours.

Make ahead!
The filled but unbaked cakes can
be refrigerated, covered, for up to
3 days before baking. Place in the
preheated oven directly from the
refrigerator and increase the baking
time to 20 minutes.
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