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!