Maybe you’ve heard…sugar isn’t all that great for you. So imagine a decadent sticky toffee pudding sweetened purely by fruit. That’s exactly what talented pastry chef Brian Levy is all about in Good & Sweet: A New Way to Bake with Naturally Sweet Ingredients. Having spent decades making pastries the traditional way (with mountains of refined sugar and white flour), Levy had a breakthrough moment when he succeeded in making a perfect mango custard, harnessing only the natural sweetness of fruit with no added sugar.
Levy now shares his new world of desserts with Good & Sweet, one that few bakers have explored. Say goodbye to cane sugar, molasses, concentrated saps, and sugar substitutes. Instead, he ingeniously uses only fruit (dried, juiced, and fresh), nuts, grains, dairy, and fermented products…
