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An impressive conjuring trick - come-hither cakes that are positively good for you... Eastwood delivers gorgeous results
--Mail on Sunday
How do you eat cake every day without ending up on a World's Fattest documentary on Five? Just follow Eastwood's approach and replace much of the fat with veg. --Waitrose Food Illustrated
Bound to amuse and delight your tastebuds. Harry proves you can have your cake and eat it! --Easy Living
--Mail on Sunday
How do you eat cake every day without ending up on a World's Fattest documentary on Five? Just follow Eastwood's approach and replace much of the fat with veg. --Waitrose Food Illustrated
Bound to amuse and delight your tastebuds. Harry proves you can have your cake and eat it! --Easy Living
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The ultimate feel-good book full of delicious and original cake recipes from the star of Cook Yourself Thin
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74 of 74 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Gorgeous cakes... once you get the hang of them,
This review is from: Red Velvet Chocolate Heartache: The ultimate feel-good book of natural cakes that taste naughty (Hardcover)
This is a beautiful book with beautiful recipes. The cakes, on the whole, are absolutely gorgeous. I cannot stress enough how they do not taste of vegetable at all, as I've sometimes found with other "healthy" cakes. My boyfriend bought me this as a present (clever fellow that he is!) and until I read the introduction neither of us realised it was a "healthy cooking" kind of book. Certainly doesn't taste like it.Only a couple of cautions (I can't call them faults, the book is too enchanting): I've tried two chocolate recipes so far (the chocolate and peanut butter cupcakes and chocolate chocolate chip cupcakes) and while they've been perfectly adequate little cakes, I wouldn't say I swooned with the rich chocolatiness of them. You'd have to swathe them in icing to get quite the same hit as you do from, say, some of Nigella's indulgent chocolate recipes. Having said that I am an unreconstructed lover of good old British milk-and-sugar chocolate, so it's possible these recipes are a bit subtle for my palate! Second point (and I wish someone had told me this when I started making the cakes) is one about timing and ingredients. Harry insists you shouldn't grate the vegetables "until you are about to add them to the mixture." This is all very well, but hard vegetables like potatoes, butternut squash etc can take ten minutes to reduce to a fine shred by hand (she won't let you food process them either), by which time the eggs and sugar you've just whisked have lost a bit of their fluff. By trial and error I've found that what Harry calls the "woody" vegetables (potatoes, carrots, parsnip, beetroot etc) can be safely grated before you start the whisking. They can cope with sitting for 5 minutes without getting damp. The so-called "water" vegetables (courgette, aubergines etc) can't cope with pre-grating, and do get very soggy (as you'd expect). They have to be grated the minute before you put them in - but on the other hand, they're softer and take far less time than the hard vegetables, so they won't hold you up with the eggs and sugar.
47 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
no heartache, it's all good.,
By speffypie "els" (Norwich) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Red Velvet Chocolate Heartache: The ultimate feel-good book of natural cakes that taste naughty (Hardcover)
Harry Eastwood, from the great `cook yourself thin' series and books, has really done something truly incredible with this book. Never have I seen such a barmy list of ingredients going into such glorious looking cakes. It makes me smile to see a simple Victoria sponge now containing grated potato and positively gawk at the thought of beetroot and chocolate fudge or parsnip vanilla fudge. Following Eastwood's method it makes one wonder if parents everywhere have just discovered an ingenious way of getting vegetables into even the most stubborn of children.Get past the pretty looking cakes and even the unusual ingredients and you will see that what Harry Eastwood has actually done is really rather splendid. This is a book dedicated to the glory of decadent eating but with a clear goal that it shouldn't come at the expense of our waistlines. Harry has cut back on the quantities of sugar and fat used, these are both balanced out by the addition of ground almonds, high in natural fat, and vegetables that help maintain that perfect sponge texture. Plus, nearly all of her recipes are made with a mixture of rice flour and ground almonds, which means that people who are unlucky enough to have wheat intolerances are not missed out in the cake gluttony which follows. Being a massive Agatha Christie fan, I was thrilled to find a homage to the much lamented seed cake for which Miss Marple requests in the `At Bertram's Hotel' novel. In my slightly nerdy fashion, i had for a time been looking for a good seed cake recipe and can say that this one is truly joyous. I really am impressed with this book; it covers a lot of cakey issues one might have, dieting and food intolerances or what to do with all those courgettes you've accidently grown and comes up trumps time and again. There are some things in here I never thought I'd see in a cake, but it works. If nothing else, you can at least freak out your friends by telling them they're eating chocolate cake with aubergine in!
46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Let them eat cake,
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This review is from: Red Velvet Chocolate Heartache: The ultimate feel-good book of natural cakes that taste naughty (Hardcover)
I would strongly recommend this book for people who don't eat wheat. The cakes taste like normal cakes but use vegetables instead of wheat.I bought it last week and we had a try at one of the recipes over the weekend. The recipes are easy to follow and have lots of helpful hints.
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