Cakes & Sweets

Cakes & Sweets is home baking at a high level, the sweet things you can make in an ordinary kitchen without lowering your ambitions. The difference from Patisserie is that here you need neither pastry rings, a thermometer nor professional training.

In Sweet, Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh cover cakes, tarts, biscuits and desserts with the same methodology that characterises his savoury books, plenty of citrus, plenty of spice and a conspicuous lack of restraint. Goh is a trained pastry chef and is responsible for most of the technical work.

Kaja Hengstenberg runs Krümel on Valhallavägen in Stockholm and has collected around thirty recipes in Cookies & Crumbs, focusing on techniques, textures and the combination of a soft centre and crisp edge that is the whole point of a proper cookie.