Kawaii Sweet World Cookbook
75 Yummy Recipes for Baking That's (Almost) Too Cute to Eat
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
A YouTube star teaches you to bake ridiculously cute, Japanese-style treats, with 75 brand-new, easy-to-follow recipes for totally original and delicious cakes, candies, cookies, cupcakes, and more.
“A delightful debut cookbook.”—Publishers Weekly
Kawaii means “cute” in Japanese, and cuteness is the main ingredient in these sweets. In Kawaii Sweet World, YouTube sensation Rachel Fong teaches you how to bake super-easy treats that are just as fun to make as they are to eat. Whether you’re a cookie rookie or a piping pro, you’ll find tips on all the basics, from whipping up the best buttercream to using a turntable to decorate—but this is no ordinary baking book. Why have a plain layer cake when you could have a cuddly corgi cake?
These seventy-five utterly unique recipes include chocolate cupcakes that transform into snuggly koalas, cake pops that are twinkly-eyed narwhals, lemon cookies that turn into emojis, and cream puffs that become little pink pigs. With Kawaii Sweet World cookbook, the fun is baked right in.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this delightful debut cookbook, Fong, creator of the YouTube channel of the book's title, transforms several classic, tasty desserts into kawaii (the Japanese word for "cute") creations. For instance, she adorns her apple pie crust with bunny and heart cutouts; shapes and decorates lemon bars into smiley-faced lemon wedges, and adds almond slices and chocolate chips to transform her blondies into adorable deer. The instructions are easy to follow for beginning bakers, and she thoughtfully includes simpler recipes, such as oatmeal bear cookies and microwave caramels. Experienced bakers will look forward to some of the more challenging recipes, such as a "gravity-defying" ramen bowl cake with chopsticks and vanilla frosting noodles suspended in the air, and cow clairs filled with a homemade pastry cream. Other recipes include hedgehog fudge (decorated like tiny hedgehogs), s'mores cupcakes (with smiley-faced marshmallow toppers), a corgi-face cake, and coffee-flavored marshmallows shaped as doughnuts. Committed to making sure that the desserts "taste just as good as they look," Fong provides baking techniques and tricks, such as how to bring eggs to room temperature quickly and a reverse creaming method for vanilla cake. Readers won't be able to resist Fong's invitation to bake cute creations.
