Delicious Low-Carb Baking

I am blaming the subject of this blog entry on one of my friends! We were casually talking several days ago about finding "the perfect lemon poppy seed" recipe. So, like any good librarian, I lodged this conversation in the back of my mind until yesterday when I walked through our libraries' cookbook section on the way to our biographies. If you are even an occasional cook, you can probably understand how hard it is to fly through the 641.5 non-fiction section and not get sidetracked by the beautiful covers and interesting titles of the cookbooks in the section. I know I am not the only person in Warren County that is enamored of cookbooks, because these titles circulate often! I remembered seeing a cookbook that I had copied an almond-poppy seed bread recipe from, and thought that it might also contain a lemon poppy seed recipe. The book, Baking With Splenda by JoAnna M. Lund and Barbara Alpert does indeed have a wonderful Lemon Poppy Seed Bundt Coffee Cake recipe in it and best of all, it's sugar-free! If you are tired of the on-again-off-again cold weather we've been experiecing, this coffee cake recipe is a wonderful low-carb way to wish in the arrival of spring. The cookbook contains sections on a variety of different food recipes that are all baked with Splenda sweetener instead of sugar--from "Yummy Yeast Breads" to "Creamy Cakes" and even includes a section on "Grandma Jo's Baking Secrets" (did you know you can make powdered sugar from Splenda)? Can't get enough recipes for low-carb desserts? Try also Nick Malgieri's Perfect Light Desserts: Fabulous Desserts with Fewer Calories or Jackie Mills' The Big Book of Diabetic Desserts: Decadent and Delicious Recipes, Perfect for People with Diabetes. Be forewarned--these books will have you throwing flour around in your kitchen pretty quickly!