I really, REALLY love to bake. But with my PCOS, I'm actually not supposed to be eating a lot of refined carbs. So I started looking for recipes that use sugar substitutes and/or whole wheat flour. Finding baked goods that use whole wheat flour has been the hardest, since you can't just substitute wheat for white and expect it to taste good. It pretty much doesn't. So imagine the JOY I felt when I found this book: King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking. Yay!
When I started using the book, I noticed two things, however. Firstly, not all the recipes use 100% whole grain flours. Some of them-especially the cakes--will use 1/2 whole grain and 1/2 white flour. But this is okay. I mean, sometimes that's the best you can do when it comes to baked goods. Secondly, they are almost all loaded with tons of sugar and butter! This surprised me, especially after reading all the Amazon reviews gushing about how "healthy" these recipes were. But. That is okay also. Because I've found that if I replace 1/2 the sugar with splenda, it pretty much tastes the same, and I just took out half the sugar. I have no intention of taking out the butter. You gotta draw the line somewhere.
So far, I have made biscuits and banana coffee cake, and both were spec*TAC*ular!
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