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Friday, March 15, 2013

Healthy Desserts by Green Kitchen review

Healthy Desserts by Green Kitchen is an iPhone and iPad app that features 48 desserts that use only natural sweeteners, healthy fats, and whole grains and fruits. The app is gorgeously designed and features mouthwatering photography that will make you dying to get in the kitchen to whip one of these up.

All of the recipes are displayed as photography in a grid. Tapping on one will bring up a gorgeous, full-screen, retina photograph and access to info about the item, the ingredients, and a step-by-step recipe.

The summary gives a description of the recipe, how long it will take, the number of portions, and mark whether it's raw, gluten free, began, whole grain, or uses natural sweeteners. In the ingredients lists, ingredient names are highlighted and when you tap them, a dictionary will appear with its definition.

Healthy Desserts is a universal app for iPhone and iPad and takes advantage of iCloud sync by keeping your favorites synced up between devices.

The good

Gorgeous photos
Good variety of cookies, bars, muffins and smoothies
48 handpicked premium recipes
A seamless switch from US to metric units
Save your favorites so you can return to them quickly on any device
Estimated cooking time for each recipe
All recipes are marked if they are vegan, raw, gluten free, naturally sweetened or whole grain
Step by step cooking instructions, tap on a step to mark it as completed
Universal for iPhone and iPad
Favorites sync between devices with iCloud

The bad

Crashes somewhat frequently on iPhone
No built-in shopping list. Can only email a list of ingredients (which can then be pasted into another app).

The bottom line

Healthy Desserts is a gorgeous cookbook filled with not-so-bad-for-you dessert choices. The mouthwatering photos do a great job of convincing you that these healthier options are still a delicious choice over something worse for you.