Good & Sweet: A New Way to Bake with Naturally Sweet Ingredients by Brian Levy

    • Categories: Breakfast / brunch; Cooking ahead
    • Ingredients: date sugar; egg white; almond butter; rolled oats; pistachios; unsweetened coconut flakes; sunflower seeds; pumpkin seeds; dried Bing cherries; extra-virgin olive oil
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  • Double banana bread

    • Astrid5555 on March 10, 2023

      If you want to eat healthier this one’s a great option. Not too sweet (bananas, freeze-dried bananas and date sugar as the only sweeteners) but still delicious!

  • Sweet corn buttermilk biscuits

    • mllamas on December 20, 2022

      Biscuits were more crumbly than flaky, but wonderfully moist and tender inside. Nice subtle corn flavor.

  • Salted chocolate buckwheat cookies

    • infoforerk on May 26, 2024

      can leave off the powdered milk dusting

    • babyfork on January 03, 2026

      I forgot to review these when I made them. Pretty sure I left out the espresso powder since I hate coffee, but otherwise followed the recipe. I remember that they were very "short" - crumbly, almost sandy texture. An interesting experiment. Wasn't wild about them, though, probably wouldn't make again.

  • Date, rye & olive oil brownies

    • babyfork on April 26, 2025

      Followed the recipe exactly and used a scale to measure ingredients. I used a thermometer to check the temperature at 15 minutes, and they were a few degrees less than he recommends, so I baked for about 3-4 minutes more. Next time, I'd pull at the 15-minute mark, because the outside edge ones were a bit drier. But overall, a keeper of a recipe! Note: the "batter," as he says, will be very thick and fudgy. It was too much for my old Cuisinart food processor at the end, and I thought maybe I'd burnt out the motor! Seems to still work after cooling off, but be careful!

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  • ISBN 10 0593330463
  • ISBN 13 9780593330463
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  • Published Jul 26 2022
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 288
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Avery

Publishers Text

Brian Levy spent years making pastries the traditional way, with loads of refined sugar and white flour, at the best restaurants in the world. But baking, to him, is most joyous when it feels like magic; finding alternative routes to long-established recipes with new ingredients and techniques is the kitchen epiphany he lives for. So when Brian succeeded in making a perfect mango custard harnessing only the natural sweetness of fruit with no added sugar—no honey, no maple syrup, no stevia—it was a breakthrough that inspired years of experimentation converting other desserts into nutritious foods.

In Good & Sweet, Levy stretches this experiment across 100 recipes that ingeniously deploy dried, juiced, and fresh fruit to create sweet treats whose flavor is enriched by whole-food, feel-good ingredients. Every recipe offers substitutions for dietary restrictions and includes a clever sweetener that exceeds the “real thing,” from banana powder to freeze-dried sweet corn to pear juice. A Pistachio-Studded Peach Galette gets its wings from fresh fruit, dried apricots, and orange juice; chestnuts, golden raisins, and dried apples perform a pas de trois in Chestnut Ricotta Ice Cream; and dates, milk powder, and just a touch of miso paste make for a dense, caramel-y Sticky Toffee Pudding Cake. With sweets like these—ones that nudge you towards mindful eating but don’t compromise flavor—you’ll never have to give up dessert.

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