European bake with 400 or fewer calories recipes

Awesome Pizza Dough

This recipe is adapted from one perfected at Greens restaurant in San Francisco. The crust is crunchy on the outside but also chewy. I think it's…

Vegetable Lasagna

Lasagna laced with garden vegetables makes a healthier pasta alternative to traditional lasagna. Don’t let the list of ingredients daunt you. I just…

Scottish Shortbread

This is the most famous cookie of Scotland. It’s a must to use pure butter. Traditionally, shortbread contains no other flavor. I’ve been making…

Cottage cheese cake

Simple, yet delicious and light cottage cheese cake.

Medenjaci - Croatian Honey Spice Cookies

Perfect, traditional Christmas cookies full of flavor. Not too sweet, easy to make and easy to store for a week…

Reese's Peanut Butter Biscotti

If you love Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and you happen to have some at home, this is one recipe you must try. I must warn you though, once you…

Italian Pretzel cookies

I'm not even sure if there is such a thing as an Italian Pretzel Cookie, in any case I decided to make up my own version. I took a Taralli Dolci…

Italian Pepper Cookies

Sometime you may have had some Italian cookies and wondered about the piquant taste. They may have been pepper cookies which come from the far…

The Best Ever Creme Brulee

Butter Free Raspberry and Almond Cake

I used Michael Ruhlman's Ratio book to create this cake from scratch..and it worked! See my blog entry about…

Honey cookies

Barely sweet, slightly salty and crumbling

Italian Meatballs

Delicate, moist and delicious.

Butter and Sugar Free Ginger Cookies

Butter, Flour and Sugar Free Cranberry Oat Bars

My first attempt at elimating butter, flour AND sugar from a cake, and it turned out alright! This recipe was…

Easy Oaty Flapjacks

Makes 9 decent-sized slices