Clean Treats for Everyone
Healthy Desserts and Snacks Made with Simple, Real Food Ingredients
by Laura Fuentes
Quarto Publishing Group – Fair Winds Press
Genre: Cooking, Food & Wine
Release Date: October 6, 2020

I think I might actually be able to get my husband to eat some of these healthy treats!

This recipe book is filled with beautiful pictures, easy to follow recipes, and a icons to identify whether the recipes meets specific dietary restrictions.

Chapter 1 provides an overview called "The Basics of Clean Eating and Baking". This includes a list of items to keep handy, such as Nuts and Seeds, Clean Fats, and Natural Sweeteners.

Chapter 2 is "Oven-Fresh Treats" with recipes like Cranberry Orange Muffins, Chocolate Mug Cake, Pumpkin Spice Coffee Cake, Raspberry Crumble Bars, cookies & scones, Baked Apple Crisp and Pumpkin Pie!.

Chapter 3 is "No-Bake Treats" including bite-sized treats (think Carrot Cake and Lemon Blueberry Bites), Edible Cookie Dough (this will win over my husband for sure!), Chocolate Chip Blondie, different kinds of granola bars, Strawberry Shortcake Bars, Chocolate Hazelnut Spread and no-bake Banana Cream Pie and five different cheesecakes. There are also some easy treats like Apple Nachos and Banana Split Sundaes!

Chapter 4 is "Warm drinks, Smoothies and Frozen Treats" with Hot Cocoa, PSL, Caramel Macchiato, Strawberry Cheesecake Milkshake, smoothies & shakes, as well as ice cream and other frozen treats!

I wish there was nutritional information included with each recipe. I would feel better about eating these indulgences if I had that information.

Overall, I love this recipe book and I can't wait to try some of the recipes!

I'm so grateful to Laura Fuentes, Fair Winds Press, and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this ARC ebook in exchange for my honest review.

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However, once I started to delve into this book, I was very tempted by the eclectic array of treats on offer. In my mind I am already rewriting next week’s shopping list, in order to maximise the number of clean treats we can try. I must remember that there’s a limit to the amount of treats one family can eat!

The lemon bars were divine and next I would like to move on to the banana choc chip bars.

My husband and I tried a few of the recipes in this book and we are HOOKED! The flavors are out of this world. I knew I had to read as soon as I saw the cover photo, because we typically make a very unhealthy alternative of the pictured squares. We brought the book version to my parents house and they liked them even more! Healthy and tasty ... it's a win-win. I'll definitely be trying more of these recipes in the future. The instructions are very clear and the images make my mouth water.

Clean Treats for Everyone initially caught my attention because of the crisp photo on the cover. The food photography throughout the entire cookbook was phenomenal. Even the treats that don't normally interest me had me drooling because of the photos. I was taken with the font choice and the clean/white space used for each of the recipes. I found it easier to follow the directions for cooking with the larger white spaces around the verbiage. The healthier options for desserts is a must have read for those baking with kids.

Clean Treats for Everyone is exactly what the title promises - it's all the sweet and chocolatey stuff you could want, made with clean ingredients. And the author takes the "everyone" part of the title very seriously and notes known allergens, when, and with what, they can be switched up with.
I really liked how all recipes were presented, and even the weirdest sounding ones, e.g. Chocolate Zucchini Bread, sounded quite inviting.
Another great thing about the book is the design - with small notes about the recipe giving more than one type of measurements, so it's suitable for more people - I work with ml and grams much better than 1/2 cup, 2 tbsp, etc.
Overall, definitely something worth checking out when in need of something to sate your sweet-tooth.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Fair Winds for providing me with an ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review.*

This is such a wonderful cookbook. The recipes are free of refined sugar, and would work well for people on restricted diets. I'm allergic to diary and eggs and wheat and I was able to find quite a few recipes that I could use (although not all the recipes were egg-free.) The pictures are beautiful. And there's a wide variety of recipes to choose from.

I am often torn between trying to reduce our family intake of refined sugars and allowing my kids to bake whatever they want. I love that my children enjoy baking but do we really need this much sugar in our diet? Finally, I think we've found a book that bridges the gap. Having looked through this book with them, we already have many recipes bookmarked to bake for packed lunches when they return to school next week. The hardest part, it seems, will be narrowing it down to just one or two.

I love the handy notation for suitability for various diets on each recipe - a really practical help when choosing recipes knowing a visitor is coming. One thing I have would have liked to see would be a similar icon denoting whether the recipe can be frozen (I like to bake large batches to freeze where possible).

I'm looking forward to this book being released, as are my children, and will definitely be buying a copy to add to our shelves.

If you want to make yourself super hungry, this is the cookbook for you. I'm an absolute sugar fiend, I cant get enough of sweet treats, so this was great for me. Lots of ideas on how to make some treats with slightly healthier ingredients. Whilst I wouldn't necessarily describe the book as healthy, it's not a bad way to add some better nutrients to some old classics.

I can basically see myself working my way through the list and trying everything. I liked the little circles indicating whether recipes were gluten free, dairy free etc etc. I can imagine this is the kind of book useful in friends households where the younger members have certain allergies.

All in all, delicious. Great pictures, well thought out recipes. Now to get in the kitchen.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for this copy of Clean Treats for Everyone
Healthy Desserts and Snacks Made with Simple, Real Food Ingredients by Laura Fuentes that publishes October 6, 2020.
I am so excited about this cookbook! I have several friends who would benefit from these recipes. I foresee making many of these for gifts in the future!
This would make a great gift!

This book really surprised me, usually you have to buy a ton of ingredients to make these type of recipes, but you can use what you already have as a starting point. This couldn’t have come at a better time as well, as I need to cut down my sugar intake. I can recommend this book.

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.

This book is great for those who like a sweet treat, but don't want it to wreck your diet and completely cancel that workout! Although I am not a huge dessert girl, every so often I get that craving for something sweet. I liked that each recipe was clearly labeled if it was diary free, gluten free and so on. I also liked all the different sections - especially the selection of smoothies!

I haven't read her previous clean cookbooks and after reading this one, I will definitely be going to check them out to see what other things she has to offer.

This book is packed full of tasty looking treats. The recipes are clear and well labeled for a variety of diets; gluten free, nut free, dairy free, vegan etc.

Clean eating to me suggests that the recipes are healthier. Whilst individual ingredients are on the whole packed with various wholesome, unprocessed foods (nuts, oats, berries etc) I would struggle to say they're all healthy simply due to the presumed high calorie content (from looking at the ingredients) It would have been very useful to include nutritional information for each of the recipes to show the nutrition you are getting over buying baked goods. This would have elevated this book to one I would have give 5*

I really liked some of the recipes in the raw desserts section and it's like I will make a few of the treats from this book.

My only reason for reduction in stars is due to the lack of nutritional information.

If you're looking for a book full of recipes which use wholesome ingredients, this is definitely one to try - there is certainly an advantage to making some of these recipes rather than buying them, it would just be nice for that information to be printed in the book.

With thanks to Netgalley for the Arc in return for an honest review.

**I received and voluntarily read an e-ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.**

Who doesn't love a treat now and then? There's a whole variety of recipes, so pretty much any craving you're having, you'll probably find something to soothe it within these pages.

There are some great recipes in here, but unfortunately there is no nutritional information to be found . While the usual ingredients are replaced with healthier options, the info is still needed for people who follow particular diets or have certain dietary needs/medical issues.

Overall, some great food, and beautiful pictures of most of the recipes give this cookbook a 3/5 stars.

I am making a 4-week no sugar challenge, so when I saw a book about healthy treats and snacks, I know I need this for some idea.
I really loved this one. There are a lot of types of sweets: muffins, brownies, ice creams, bars, etc. The only one recipe I missed is pancakes :) Most of the recipe contains coconut or almond milk and flour, honey. There are just a few texts before the recipes, so most of the book is about the recipes. There is also a photo for almost every recipe which I really like.
I didn’t try out anything yet, but I found a lot which I wrote out myself.

Nice recipes if you are vegan, gluten, dairy, egg or nut intolerant. My problem is the lack of nutritional information. It’s all very well using Coconut oil/butter/cream but it is still very high in fat. Diabetics still need to know the carbohydrate value of the foods they eat. How is this effected if you substitute oat flour for wheat flour? I find the term ‘clean’ strange? It implies that other versions of these recipes are ‘dirty’. This is why we ancient vegetarians talk about ‘wholefood’. In the 1960’s when I became vegetarian we thought about the origins and effects of foods on our physical and mental health and that of the planet. We didn’t need ‘meat substitutes (quorn or soya pretending to be meat) we just didn't/don’t eat meat. At that time fat and salt were the demons. Now fat is okay, if it’s coconut fat? and ‘sea salt’ is sprinkled on everything.
These days it’s sugar. Fructose, fruit sugars, corn syrup, honey will rot your teeth just as easily as white cane sugar. I would have given this book five stars if it had contained the nutritional information. Three stars as I like some of the recipes but will use butter and not coconut oil.

Oh yes! So many fantastic recipes. I’m in a hurry to finish this review, because I need to make the chocolate cake immediately. Lots of different recipes, so that everyone can find something they like, even the really picky ones. It’s very easy to veganize almost all of the recipes, which is good.

Some of the pictures made me drool, and quite a few recipes are on my “must try” list. The cheesecakes look absolutely delicious. I will make the key lime pie and banana cream pie as soon as possible. The strawberry shortcake bar picture is so beautiful that I wonder if anyone can skip trying that one.

A very good book for anyone wanting to make and eat desserts, but want to avoid regular sugar and wheat flour. I find that the recipes can easily be amended if needed.

I got a free advance reader copy through NetGalley. Some of the treats were without a picture. Hopefully the final version has pictures of every single end product.

From Pumpkin Spice Coffeecake to Raspberry Crumble Bars to Chocolate Mug Cake, these all-natural treats are full of flavor without refined sugar or gluten. Recipes can also be tweaked to fit other dietary needs such as nut- or diary-free. Perfect snacks and desserts for anyone wanting to eat clean. While salivating over the beautiful color photos, I decided: “I want one of everything!”

5 of 5 Stars

Pub Date 06 Oct 2020

Thanks to the author, Quarto Publishing Group – Fair Winds, and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are mine.

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The recipes in this cookbook sound amazing and look delicious!!! Laura uses a lot of oat, almond, and coconut flour in place of less healthy options. Coconut sugar and honey are commonly used in place of regular sugar, so be aware that treats are probably still high in calories and sugar, but it appears that smaller quantities are used so it likely equates to less sugar than these items are normally made with. There is a very vast array of dessert types, including pies, cookies, bars, fudge, frozen treats, cakes, etc. Most, but not all, recipes have a beautiful picture to depict. I would estimate there are for 70-75% of the recipes. My biggest caveat with this book is that there are no nutritional facts. Typically health conscious people, which I would think are the target audience for this book, would like to see the nutrition of what they are consuming and it was a huge bummer that there are none at all!