How Low Can You Go? Cut the Butter? Cut the Sugar? Cut the Eggs? After Baking 23 Cakes, Here's What We Found

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 22, 1997| Author: Carole Sugarman; Stephanie Witt Sedgwick | Copyright information

When it comes to low-fat baking, there are no rules to follow, nothing to go by. Nothing, nada, rien, zilch.

So forget all that stuff you've read in cookbooks or seen on food packages, like how you can use applesauce as a fat substitute in cakes. Or how you can reduce cholesterol by replacing each whole egg with two egg whites. Or how you can cut sugar simply by cutting sugar. Or how you should never, ever use lower-fat tub margarine for baking.

It's just not that simple...

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