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Ten Holiday Baking Tips to Save Time, Cut Calories and Reduce Sugar Intake
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Tags: Holiday, Baking, Best, healthy, Quick, Fast, Better
Cookbook author Lisa Jobs offers practical tips on better ingredient choices, time saving tools and healthier alternatives when preparing homemade desserts this holiday season.
| 1. | Use parchment paper on cookie sheets instead of greasing them with shortening or spray. |
| 2. | Instead of using regular cream cheese, try Neufchatel, the low fat version of cream cheese. |
| 3. | Use sea salt and unbleached flour instead of regular table salt and all-purpose bleached flour. |
| 4. | Use unsweetened dried fruit instead of dried fruit sweetened with extra sugar. |
| 5. | To soften your butter cut it in small pieces and heat it in a microwave-safe dish. |
| 6. | Use stevia extract instead of sugar or artificial sweeteners for your holiday treats and greatly reduce your calories, carb intake and sugar intake. |
| 7. | When choosing white chocolate chips or baking bars, be sure to buy a brand, like Ghirardelli, that contains only the cocoa butter as the "fat" ingredient and avoid those that only contain sugar, hard vegetable fat and have artificial chocolate flavoring. |
| 8. | If you don't have time to make or simply don't know how to make homemade piecrust, be sure to use all-natural brands available at your local health food store or natural foods grocers. |
| 9. | Use all-natural peanut butter. |
| 10. | To prevent your cheesecake from cracking, don't over beat the batter, and make sure cake is firm around edges but center still "jingles" a little when pan is shaken. |
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