How can you make cakes, cookies, and candy even MORE fun? Award-winning blogger Heather Baird, a vibrant new voice in the culinary world, has the answer: Cook like an artist! Combining her awesome skills as a baker, confectioner, and painter, she has created a gorgeous, innovative cookbook, designed to unleash the creative side of every baker. Heather sees dessert making as one of the few truly creative outlets for the home cook. So, instead of arranging recipes by dessert type (cookies, tarts, cakes, etc.), she has organized them by line, color, and sculpture. As a result, SprinkleBakes is at once a breathtakingly comprehensive dessert cookbook and an artist's instructional that explains brush strokes, sculpture molds, color theory, and much more. With easy-to-follow instructions and beautiful step-by-step photographs, Heather shows how anyone can make her jaw-dropping creations, from Mehndi Hand Ginger Cookies to Snow Glass Apples to her seasonal masterpiece, a Duraflame(R)-inspired Yule Log..

Make Your Desserts Even Sweeter-With Salt! Expert baker and blogger Heather Baird of Sprinklebakes shows novices and experts alike how to source, select and bake-and-sprinkle delicious treats. If you've ever dipped pretzels in melted chocolate or sprinkled salt over a juicy melon slice, then you've discovered the magic alchemy in mixing saltiness with sweetness. The recipes in Sea Salt Sweet take it up a notch, combining these two great tastes in ways you've never imagined. Award-winning blogger and master baker Heather Baird teaches you how to use fine artisan salts - from Maldon Sea Salt and Red Hawaiian Salt, to Himalayan Black and French Grey Salt - to make mouthwatering desserts for any occasion. From sure-to-please classics like Chocolate Chunk Kettle Chip Cookies and Lemon Pie with Soda Cracker Crust, to more exotic choices like Black Sesame Cupcakes with Matcha Buttercream or Smoke & Stout Chocolate Torte, Sea Salt Sweet offers delectable "must-try" treats for the salty-sweet lover.

“Tessa elevates the art of layer cakes to new heights . . . [She] will have you whipping up drool-worthy, gourmet cakes at home.” —Carrie Selman of The Cake Blog It’s time to venture beyond vanilla and chocolate and take your baking skills up a notch. We’re talking layers—two, three, four, or more! Create sky-high, bakery-quality treats at home with 150 innovative recipes from Tessa Huff, the founder of Style Sweet. They combine new and exciting flavors of cake, fillings, and frostings—everything from pink peppercorn cherry to bourbon butterscotch, and pumpkin vanilla chai to riesling rhubarb and raspberry chocolate stout. Including contemporary baking methods and industry tips and tricks, Layered covers every decorating technique you’ll ever need with simple instructions and gorgeous step-by-step photos that speak to bakers of every skill level—and to anyone who wants to transform dessert into layer upon layer of edible art. “Tessa Huff is a cake whisperer. Every cake you will immediately want to bake . . . everyone will be gobsmacked by a multi-tiered, multi-component offering.” —The Cookbook Junkies “Ms. Huff has created a beautiful book, loaded with equal measure classic technique and modern flavor sensibility. Anyone who considers themselves a baker will feel their pulse subtly accelerate simply by thumbing through these pages.” —Leslie Bilderback, author of Mug Meals “Layered is a book that will have a permanent spot in my kitchen. From the stunning imagery to the decadent recipes, Tessa has created a must-have book for all bakers and cake lovers. She’s an amazing stylist and her recipes are flawless!” —Courtney Whitmore, author of The Southern Entertainer’s Cookbook

Discover a Whole New Level of Decadence Peabody Johanson, founder of the blog Sweet ReciPEAs, is an evil genius—the sweet kind, of course. In her incredible debut book, Peabody invites you into her sugary, decadent, over-the-top world with 60 outrageous dessert concoctions. These epic recipes take beloved baked goods like pies, cakes, cupcakes and cookies and infuses them with the utterly irresistible flavors of cereal, ice cream, candy, booze and more. You can literally have your cake and eat it too with crazy delicious recipes like Cookies and Cream Ice Cream Bread Pudding, Snickerdoodle Caramel Apple Cupcakes and Cap’n Crunch® Boston Cream Pie Layer Cake, just to name a few. Directions are easy to follow with no fancy equipment or hard-to-find ingredients required—just lots of butter, frosting, chocolate and love. No matter your skill level, you’ll get picture-perfect results time and time again. Friends and family—heck, even strangers!—will drop their jaws as you unveil amazing desserts that combine all their favorite treats, like the Snickers Tart, Drumstick Ice Cream Sweet Rolls or Fruity PebblesTM Crumb Cake. Rediscover the flavors of your childhood with the nostalgic Cosmic Brownies Torte and Circus Animal Filled Donuts, or enjoy indulgent, boozy creations with Bourbon Peach Upside-Down Cake and Bananas Foster Ice Cream Pie. With this one-of-a-kind collection, you’ll discover the dessert of your dreams and tons you never even imagined were possible!

Create your very own cute and crafty party cakes--cake decorating designs from Lyndsay Sung, creator of Coco Cake Land. Make the cutest cakes in town with Coco Cake Land! With a colorful, vintage-meets-modern aesthetic that is inspired by kawaii cute, the thirty cake decorating projects in this book offer a fun and playful approach to making cakes that even novice decorators will be able to approach. The cakes in Coco Cake Land fall into two styles: the super cute and the pretty. You'll find blue bears, pink cats, pandas, and foxes, along with buttercream rosettes, drippy ganache, and rainbow layers. With base recipes for cakes and frostings, tutorials on decorative piping and creating fondant features, as well as instructions for crafty finishes like washi tape flags and paper toppers, this book has everything you need to create colorful, cute, and completely unique cakes.

With recipes ranging from the deliciously decadent to the deceptively simple, Jaronsky shows you how to bring her signature style into your own kitchen. A self-described buttercream addict, her book has something for everyone, from the cooking novice to the seasoned chef.

Sarah Coates, blogger behind the award-winning thesugarhit.com, is a baking genius. Sarah’s first book, The Sugar Hit!, introduces us to her fabulous cookies, cakes, pancakes, doughnuts, ice creams, brownies, drinks, cupcakes, pies and heaps more. She’s compiled her most ass-kicking recipes with the goal of bringing ridiculously spectacular, chocolate-coated, sprinkle-topped, pastry-wrapped, deep-fried, syrup-drizzled sweets into your life and kitchen. Sarah’s got you covered from first thing in the morning to the middle of the night. Wake up to Blueberry Pancake Granola, take a break with a couple of Choc Chip Pretzel Cookies, or recharge with a Cherry Hazelnut Energy Bar. Or hey, why not just blow the lid off the place with a Filthy Cheat’s Jam Donut? The Sugar Hit! is divided into 6 fun chapters: Breakfast & Brunch Coffee Break Healthy Junk Midnight Snacks Party Time Happy Holidays Grab some sugar, butter, flour, chocolate and eggs and you’re just a cream, sift, melt and crack away from creating delicious snacks, cakes and desserts.