Bake With Dates Cookbook Published

Sept. 7, 2011 - PRLog -- Santa Clarita, California -- Author and resident Susan Lowenberg has published the Bake With Dates cookbook, seventy-five sugar free recipes for cakes, cookies, pies, puddings, quick breads and other baked goods.  The refined sugar normally used in baked goods is replaced here by dates which have a low glycemic index and are high in fiber, vitamins, and minerals.

"I wanted a way to make healthy baked goods without using sugar, honey, or agave nectar, all of which have a high glycemic index," said Susan Lowenberg, author of Bake With Dates.  "These sweeteners cause spikes in blood sugar levels and add little nutritional value.  That's why I developed the bake with dates technique."

Dates are high in fiber and help promote a healthy digestive system.  Dates are an excellent source of potassium, a nutrient needed to maintain a healthy nervous system.  Dates contain many vitamins like A, B1, B2 and nicotinic acid (niacin) that help maintain a healthy body by metabolizing carbohydrates and maintaining blood glucose levels.  Dates have higher percentages of potassium, phosphorous and iron than other fruits.  Dates also contain a higher percentage of protein than other fruits.  Dates are free of fat and cholesterol and are low in sodium.

All recipes in the Bake With Dates cookbook are vegan and free of animal products (butter, eggs and milk) normally found in baked goods.  Recent research has shown that a diet high in nuts, whole grains and plant sterols can reduce LDL (the bad) cholesterol more effectively than either statin drugs or a low-fat diet.  These foods, especially almonds, walnuts and oats, are precisely the ingredients used in the Bake With Dates recipes.

Bake With Dates recipes include Carob Cake, Carrot Cake, Cinnamon Coffee Cake, Apple Walnut Bread, Orange Cranberry Bread, Zucchini Bread, Blueberry Pie, Carob Pie, Strawberry Pie, Apple Crisp, Peach Cobbler, Blondies, Cinnamon Cookies, Carob Chip Cookies, Ginger Molasses Cookies and many more.

Bake With Dates is available in print on Amazon.com and Createspace.com.  The cookbook is also available as an e-book on Amazon Kindle, Apple iBookstore, Barnes and Noble Nook, Sony Reader and other formats from Smashwords.com

Review copies of Bake With Dates are available upon request.

More information is available at bakewithdates.com and http://bakewithdates.blogspot.com


About the Author:
Susan Lowenberg learned to bake by her mother's side, starting at the age of five.  She works as a librarian and lives in Santa Clarita, California with her husband and two children. She has also published a romance novel, Alaric’s Song, as well as a nonfiction work, C.S. Lewis: A Reference Guide 1972-1988.