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@swtbttrfly23 I TOTALLY hear you! I love baking and I just can't give that up! Another great thing I discovered thanks to hCG was Stevia and Xylitol. You can replace sugar in pretty much all recipes with xylitol. As for flour... that's a bit more tricky. For crusts, a mix of almond and coconut flour +butter works just fine. But I gave up baking bread, results were not good at all!

There are tons of great recipes out there, but you do have to look. This website is all about coconut baked goods: http://www.tiana-coconut.com/coconut_flour_recipes.htm. Also a bunch of recipes (not just desserts) here: http://fastpaleo.com/ and here: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/categ...axzz1mUYKw06Gc

Also, when you sign up for Mark's Daily Apple (marksdailyapple.com) newsletter [I am in no way affiliated, but I will admit that I read the blog daily], you have access to two cookbooks. Let's see if I can post them here... Ok apparently the files are too big... See if this works: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/wordp...book-Final.pdf and this: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/wordp...12292010-1.pdf The books are technically password protected so if the links don't work, you may have to sign up for the newsletter, or send me a PM with your email address and I should be able to send them to you that way.

If you like ice cream, then a ice cream maker is a must! That way, I can make my own sugar-free ice cream and I know that the final product only contains quality ingredients.

Anyway... There are many ways to make this work and you don't have to give up baking. You just have to substitute and accept that you probably won't be able to bake a chocolate eclair, but you will be able to bake a chocolate cake and a raspberry-coco cream pie (absolutely delicious BTW, recipe is in the coconut cookbook link above)