"low fat baking" news and stories

While reducing the fat in baking gets easier with time, especially after you practice with a few recipes and accept the possibility of failing every once in a while, you have to wonder how far you can push the limits. While there are fat free cakes, like angel food, the texture in those is decidedly different from that of a traditional cake, which you expect to be moist and tender, not airy. After much testing, cookbook author Sarah Philips, came up with a whole book of all-natural, low fat recipes (The Healthy Oven Baking Book). This cake is a variation on one of the recipes from that book - and it has almost no fat.

Last week we looked at how to make some low fat oatmeal cookies that were just as good as their full-fat counterparts – not to mention that they are better for you. This week, instead of choosing a recipe that needed to have something replaced, as the applesauce stood in for some of the butter in the cookies, the recipe is a cake that already has a no-added-fat base. Basically, instead of relying on a richer butter cake base, this version of pineapple upside down cake uses a sponge cake as the base.