Good & Sweet: A New Way to Bake with Naturally Sweet Ingredients: A Baking Book
ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: Los Angeles Times, Serious Eats

Groundbreaking recipes for real desserts—sweetened entirely by fruit and other natural, unexpectedly sweet ingredients—from a pastry cook who’s worked at acclaimed restaurants in New York and France.


Brian Levy spent years making pastries the traditional way, with loads of refined sugar and white flour, at distinguished restaurants, inns, and private homes in the United States and Europe. But he discovered another world of desserts—one that few bakers have explored—where there’s no need for cane sugar or coconut sugar, for maple syrup or honey, or for anything like stevia. When Levy succeeded in making a perfect mango custard, harnessing only the natural sweetness of fruit with no added sugar, it was a breakthrough that inspired years of experimentation converting other desserts into nutritious indulgences.

In Good & Sweet, Levy stretches this experiment across 100 recipes that ingeniously deploy fruit (dried, juiced, and fresh), nuts, grains, dairy, and fermented products to create sweet treats whose flavor is enriched by whole-food, feel-good ingredients. Every recipe offers substitutions for dietary restrictions and includes a flavorful sweetener that exceeds cane sugar, from freeze-dried sweet corn to coconut cream and apple cider. A Pistachio-Studded Peach Galette gets its wings from fresh fruit, dried apricots, and orange juice; chestnuts, golden raisins, and dried apples perform a pas de trois in Chestnut Ricotta Ice Cream; and dates, milk powder, and a touch of miso paste make for a dense, caramely Sticky Toffee Pudding Cake. With sweets like these—ones that nudge you toward mindful eating but don’t compromise flavor—you’ll never have to give up dessert.
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Good & Sweet: A New Way to Bake with Naturally Sweet Ingredients: A Baking Book
ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: Los Angeles Times, Serious Eats

Groundbreaking recipes for real desserts—sweetened entirely by fruit and other natural, unexpectedly sweet ingredients—from a pastry cook who’s worked at acclaimed restaurants in New York and France.


Brian Levy spent years making pastries the traditional way, with loads of refined sugar and white flour, at distinguished restaurants, inns, and private homes in the United States and Europe. But he discovered another world of desserts—one that few bakers have explored—where there’s no need for cane sugar or coconut sugar, for maple syrup or honey, or for anything like stevia. When Levy succeeded in making a perfect mango custard, harnessing only the natural sweetness of fruit with no added sugar, it was a breakthrough that inspired years of experimentation converting other desserts into nutritious indulgences.

In Good & Sweet, Levy stretches this experiment across 100 recipes that ingeniously deploy fruit (dried, juiced, and fresh), nuts, grains, dairy, and fermented products to create sweet treats whose flavor is enriched by whole-food, feel-good ingredients. Every recipe offers substitutions for dietary restrictions and includes a flavorful sweetener that exceeds cane sugar, from freeze-dried sweet corn to coconut cream and apple cider. A Pistachio-Studded Peach Galette gets its wings from fresh fruit, dried apricots, and orange juice; chestnuts, golden raisins, and dried apples perform a pas de trois in Chestnut Ricotta Ice Cream; and dates, milk powder, and a touch of miso paste make for a dense, caramely Sticky Toffee Pudding Cake. With sweets like these—ones that nudge you toward mindful eating but don’t compromise flavor—you’ll never have to give up dessert.
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Good & Sweet: A New Way to Bake with Naturally Sweet Ingredients: A Baking Book

Good & Sweet: A New Way to Bake with Naturally Sweet Ingredients: A Baking Book

Good & Sweet: A New Way to Bake with Naturally Sweet Ingredients: A Baking Book

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ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: Los Angeles Times, Serious Eats

Groundbreaking recipes for real desserts—sweetened entirely by fruit and other natural, unexpectedly sweet ingredients—from a pastry cook who’s worked at acclaimed restaurants in New York and France.


Brian Levy spent years making pastries the traditional way, with loads of refined sugar and white flour, at distinguished restaurants, inns, and private homes in the United States and Europe. But he discovered another world of desserts—one that few bakers have explored—where there’s no need for cane sugar or coconut sugar, for maple syrup or honey, or for anything like stevia. When Levy succeeded in making a perfect mango custard, harnessing only the natural sweetness of fruit with no added sugar, it was a breakthrough that inspired years of experimentation converting other desserts into nutritious indulgences.

In Good & Sweet, Levy stretches this experiment across 100 recipes that ingeniously deploy fruit (dried, juiced, and fresh), nuts, grains, dairy, and fermented products to create sweet treats whose flavor is enriched by whole-food, feel-good ingredients. Every recipe offers substitutions for dietary restrictions and includes a flavorful sweetener that exceeds cane sugar, from freeze-dried sweet corn to coconut cream and apple cider. A Pistachio-Studded Peach Galette gets its wings from fresh fruit, dried apricots, and orange juice; chestnuts, golden raisins, and dried apples perform a pas de trois in Chestnut Ricotta Ice Cream; and dates, milk powder, and a touch of miso paste make for a dense, caramely Sticky Toffee Pudding Cake. With sweets like these—ones that nudge you toward mindful eating but don’t compromise flavor—you’ll never have to give up dessert.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780593330470
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 07/26/2022
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 117 MB
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About the Author

Brian Levy is a pastry cook who previously worked at Babbo, where he was mentored by James Beard Award−winning pastry chef Gina DePalma. Outside of the kitchen, he also studied architecture at Yale.

Read an Excerpt

Caoilfhionn Dunne reads this brand new novel featuring the Doctor and Belinda, as played on TV by Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu.

Step right up for the most sensational cruise in the galaxy!
The TARDIS lands on board a luxury space liner owned by the interstellar shipping magnate Marilyn Moon. The Moon Cruise offers its wealthy passengers up-close views of astounding cosmic wonders and the Doctor and Belinda are soon high-rolling it on the top deck.
But there is a sinister side to life on board. What is the secret of the smiling, blonde-haired mannequins? What happens to the cruise ship workers when they go off shift? The Doctor soon learns that not all prisons come with bars on the windows, while Belinda faces one
of the greatest cruelties in the universe - a zero-pay contract in retail and hospitality that can never be broken ...

Cailfhionn Dunne - who played Shaya in the 2025 BBC TV episode The Well - reads Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson's original novel.

(P) 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd © 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd Text © Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson 2025

Table of Contents

Foreword Amy Chaplin 11

Introduction 13

Ingredients 21

Equipment 35

1 Breakfast

Olive Oil Granola with Pistachios & Cherries 39

Coconut Crepes with Bananas & "New-tella" 40

Chestnut Flour Crepes with Apple Butter & Whipped Ricotta 43

Double Banana Bread 45

Fluffy Banana Buttermilk Pancakes 47

Sweet Corn Buttermilk Biscuits 49

Sweet Corn Blueberry Muffins 51

Perfect Currant Scones 55

Loaded Breakfast Cookies 56

Poppy Seed Jam Strudel 59

Coffee Cake with Berry Jam & Cinnamon Streusel 61

Peaches & Cream Brioche Tart 65

Ricotta-Chestnut Fritters with Sweet Cinnamon Dust 67

2 Cookies, Bars & Confections

Rosemary-Lemon Shortbread 73

Salted Chocolate Buckwheat Cookies 75

Pignoli Cookies 77

'Nana Wafers 78

New Figtons 81

Apricot Rugelach 83

Chewy Oat Bars 87

Babylonian Swirls 91

Date, Rye & Olive Oil Brownies 95

Date & Pine Nut Blondies 97

Chocolate Peanut Butter Patties 98

No-Bake Sesame Peanut Chews 101

Apple-Caramel Apples 103

3 Starring Fruit

Strawberry Sweet Corn Shortcake 109

Blueberry Biscuit Cobbler 111

Stuffed Plums 113

Pineapple & Vanilla Crisp 116

Mixed Berry Crisp 119

Pear & Black Cherry Oat Crisp 122

Fig Crumble 124

Cherry-Coconut Clafoutis 127

Cinnamon & Bourbon Fried Apple Rings 129

Drunk Peaches 131

4 Pies & Tarts

Farm Stand Blueberry Pie with Sweet Corn Whipped Cream 134

Pistachio-Studded Peach Galette 137

Jam Tartlets in Sweet Corn Crust 139

Finnish Blueberries & Cream Tart 141

Fig Crostata 143

Stone Fruit & Frangipane Tart 145

Bourbon Apple Slab Tart 147

Pear & Almond Tart 149

Apple Custard Tart 151

Key Lime Tart 154

Spiced Pumpkin Pie 156

Matcha Banana Custard Pie 158

Derby Date Pie 161

Mocha Tartlets 163

5 Cakes

Brown Butter Banana Cake 168

Persimmon & Spice Bundt Cake with White Chocolate Ganache 171

Almond & Apple Bizcocho 173

Ricotta, Blueberry & Fig Pound Cake 177

Pineapple Pound Cake 179

Olive Oil Zucchini Spice Cake 181

Five-Spice Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting 183

Figgy Cheesecake 187

Hugo Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting 189

Sticky Toffee Pudding Cake 193

Pistachio Cake 197

Fudgy Chocolate Spoon Cake 199

Peanut Butter Dream Date Cake 202

6 Custards & Creams

Coffee Bean Panna Cotta 207

Milk Chocolate Mousse Clouds 209

Butterscotch Pots de Crème 211

Pear & Vanilla Bean Flan Pâtissier 213

Saffron & Lemon Rice Pudding 217

Almond & Orange Bread Pudding 219

Southern Banana Pudding Parfait 220

Persimmon Panna Cotta 223

Mango Custard 225

7 Frozen

Apple & Vanilla Bean Ice Cream 230

Vineyard Frozen Yogurt 231

Hazelnut Milk Chocolate Ice Cream 233

Rice Pudding Ice Cream 235

Chestnut Ricotta Ice Cream 236

Banana-Date-Lime Ice "Cream" 237

Sesame Semifreddo with Chocolate Cookie Crust 239

Fig Ice Cream 243

Creamy Coconut Popsicles 244

Salted Dark Chocolate Sorbet 246

Black & White Milkshake 247

Peach & Moscato Sorbet 249

Affogato (Ice Cream & Espresso) 251

8 Basics/Elements

Perfect Pie Dough 255

Sweet Corn Tart Dough 257

Blueberry Cookie Crust Dough 259

Sweet Pastry Dough 260

Frangipane 261

Chocolate Hazelnut Spread 262

Miso "Caramel" Cream 263

Any-Berry Compote 263

Cream Cheese Frosting 264

Plummy Chocolate Ermine Frosting 265

Vegan Milk 267

Vegan Milk Powder 267

Vegan Butter 268

Vegan Cream Cheese 269

Vegan Crème Fraîche 269

Gluten-Free Flour Blends 270

Appendix

Fruit States: Characteristics & Applications 271

Lists 272

Resources 274

Bibliography 276

Acknowledgments 280

Index 283

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