Ani's Raw Food Desserts: 85 Easy, Delectable Sweets and Treats [Paperback]

You can have your cake and eat it too with Ani Phyo's innovative, delicious desserts. From cobblers to cookies, pies to cupcakes, Chef Ani's easy-to-make sweets are wheat-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, processed sugar-free, and cruelty-free. Deceptively simple, these treats pack loads of flavor and nutrition in every bite. Substituting these mouthwatering desserts for traditional baked ones will give your body much-needed nutrients while sacrificing none of the flavor. With lists of essential tools, key ingredients (including “superfoods” that enhance flavor and nutrition), full-color photos, and gorgeous design,Ani's Raw Food Dessertsproves you don't have to sacrifice taste or style to reap the benefits of raw foods.

With recipes for: Raspberry Ganache Fudge Cake, Lemon Pudding Filled Coconut Cupcakes with Shaved Coconut Topping, Mango Sorbet on Macaroon Tartlets, Chocolate Crunch Cupcakes with Molten Mint, Fig Tartlets with Frangipane Cream, Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, Mulberry Pecan Cookies, Spiced Blueberry Cobbler, Pear Ginger Crisp, Nectarine-Raspberry Crumble, and Filled Chocolate Truffles.

Ani Phyois rapidly becoming one of the nation's premier raw food chefs. The author ofAni's Raw Food KitchenandReturn on Design: Smarter Web Design that Works, she lives in Los Angeles.

VegNews, July/August 2009
“[A] wheat-, gluten-, dairy-, and processed-sugar free collection of raw confections to die for. Most of Desserts’ recipes are fast, easy, and have no more than six ingredients, often fewer. It almost feels like cheating to be able to create tasty, intricate, and stylish treats without going through chef training.”

Epicurious.com, 7/16/09
“Phyo's second book focuses on the sweeter side of raw with 85 recipes (Almond Frangipane Kream and Raspberry Ganache Fudge Cake, anyone?) that will have your sweet tooth clamoring for more.l³*