Olive Oil Desserts
Delicious and healthy heart smart baking

Enjoy the Sweet Life without all the added fat!

Olive Oil Desserts is a innovative, award winning cookbook that will amaze you and fool your family and friends!

We are a society dependent on a high fat diet which includes margarine, oils and shortening. The risks these unhealthy Trans fats pose to our health and well being are only beginning to be understood. Olive Oil Desserts will teach you how to improve your diet and health without sacrificing taste or enjoyment. You can reduce your Trans fat intake and increase your good fats while enjoying luscious chocolate cake, rich pecan pie, delicious sweet breads and many more family favorites. Olive Oil Desserts will quickly become a staple in your kitchen with recipes to bake and enjoy with your family and friends. Now you can make nutritious, great tasting treats a tradition in your home. These recipes will help make healthy food taste like junk food to your kids.

In Olive Oil Desserts, Micki will teach you the basic facts of baking with olive oil. The recipes in this book are easy to follow. Olive Oil Desserts contains many mouth watering color pictures, cooking tips and delightful stories. There is also a section where Micki teaches you how to substitute milk, eggs and even whole wheat flour for lactose or vegetarian diets.

Olive Oil Desserts takes advantage of the fact that olive oil has been named the healthiest oil on earth. It is loaded with monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs). These MUFAs are what lower your LDL "bad" cholesterol. Many medical studies have proven that olive oil reduces the LDL "bad" cholesterol and aids in the fight against heart disease. Olive oil contains numerous plant compounds. These compounds help to increase enzymes that block activation of carcinogens and aide in their removal from the body. Olive oil is loaded with polyphenols, a powerful antioxidant that promotes heart health and the fight against cancer. There are no Trans fats or hydrogenated oils found in olive oil.

Micki's Sample Recipes: Tasting will make you a believer in Micki's healthy desserts.

Micki's Simple Brownies
This is an old fashioned brownie. Because of the air whipped into the first stage of this recipe, it comes out crunchy and chewy. To make these brownies even more decadent, add a half a cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips. I can't eat a brownie without a nice scoop of vanilla ice cream, and you shouldn't either.
4 oz unsweetened chocolate squares
1/3 cup pure or light olive oil
3 large eggs
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
3/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt

For added decadence only:
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F coat an 8X8X2-in pan with olive oil cooking spray. In a small mixing bowl melt chocolate and olive oil for 1 minute 30 seconds; set aside. In a mixer; beat eggs, sugar and vanilla at high speed for 5 minutes or more. Blend in chocolate mixture. Fold in flour and salt until just mixed. If adding chocolate chips, this would be the time. Mix in until just blended. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a knife inserted into the middle comes out clean. Remove, cool slightly. Serve and enjoy!!

*This recipe can be made with whole wheat pastry flour.
Copyright Micki's Kitchen 2008

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