Monday, December 22, 2008

Healthy Homestyle Cooking or Colettes Birthday Cakes

Healthy Homestyle Cooking: 200 of Your Favorite Family Recipes with a Fraction of the Fat

Author: Evelyn Tribol

Inside Healthy Homestyle Cooking you'll find more than 200 family favorite recipes dramatically reduced in fat, calories, cholesterol, and sodium without sacrificing taste or texture. It also includes a complete guide to transforming any dish into a healthier irrestible version.

What People Are Saying

Barbara Harris
Not only does Evelyn offer hands-on strategies for making over favorite recipes, but she reveals how easy it is to make healthful eating a part of your lifestyle.
—Barbara Harris, Editor-in-Chief, Shape magazine




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Colette's Birthday Cakes

Author: Colette Peters

No birthday celebration is complete without a birthday cake, and no one makes more astoundingly beautiful or imaginative cakes than Colette Peters, cake decorator extraordinaire. Here are cakes for every month in the year and every sort of birthday celebrant. Each month has a sign of the zodiac cake (for Aquarius, a Water Pitcher mosaic), a birthstone cake (for June, a Crown of Pearls), and a flower cake. In addition there are Colette's fabulous one-of-a-kind cakes, such as an astonishingly realistic "leather" doctor's bag, a chess set, an art deco cake, and a Cherry Pie Purse.

Although the cakes are almost too beautiful to eat, Colette has divulged her own delicious recipes for bourbon chocolate cake, basic buttercream, chocolate ganache, and cookies. And she has provided detailed instructions for everything from how to build a tiered cake to airbrushing on sugar, piping techniques, painting with gold, and much more. Filled with step-by-step, easy-to-follow directions, hundreds of line drawings, and gorgeous color photographs, this newest book from America's foremost cake decorator will enable anyone to duplicate her fantastic creations.



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