Baking Thru Sweet
“A party without cake is just a meeting”
– Julia Child
There’s a cookbook, rather a bakebook that was published in 2017 called Sweet by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh. My friends and I had the opportunity to meet them during their cookbook tour in 2017. Although I have never considered myself a baker, I have been obsessed with the recipes and photos from Sweet. Since getting the book, I have been baking through it and indulging my friends, family, and colleagues with these special treats. My goal is to bake everything in the book. If I have learned one thing, the experience has taught me to never use boxed mixes again!
Here are photos of some of my bakes.
custard yo-yos with roasted cranberry icing saffron, orange, and honey cakes kaffir lime leaf posset with fresh raspberries lemon and berry stripe cake sticky fig pudding with salted caramel and coconut topping Roma’s doughnuts with saffron custard cream chocolate Guiness cake with Baileys Irish cream pistachio and rose water semolina cake honey, oat, and cranberry cookies coffee and cardamom pound cake honey, macadamia and coconut caramels pineapple and star anise chiffon cake coffee and walnut financiers cranberry, oat and white chocolate biscuits schiacciata with grapes and fennel seed celebration cake apricot and thyme galettes Louise cake with plum and coconut Inside of the Louise cake rum and raisin cake with rum caramel icing rolled pavlova with peaches and berries
The Sweet cookbook is amazing and I highly recommend it for anyone who loves to bake! Ottolenghi’s other books aren’t too shabby either!