The New Sugar & Spice: A Recipe for Bolder Baking [Hardcover]

A 2016 James Beard Award nominee featuring more than eighty recipes from New York-based food writer and author of the popular dessert blogLove, Cake.

Raise your desserts to a whole new level of flavor withThe New Sugar & Spice, a collection of more than eighty unique, unexpected, and uniformly delicious recipes for spice-centric sweets. Veteran baker Samantha Seneviratne’s recipes will open your eyes to a world of baking possibilities: Her spicy, pepper-flecked Chile-Chocolate Truffles prove that heat and sweet really do go hand-in-hand, and a fresh batch of aromatic, cinnamon-laced Maple Sticky Buns will have the whole family racing into the kitchen.

Discover new recipes from around the globe, such as Sri Lankan Love Cake or Swedish-inspired Saffron Currant Braid. Or, give your classic standbys a bold upgrade, such as making Raspberry Shortcakes with zingy Double Ginger Biscuits. Filled with fascinating histories, origin stories, and innovative uses for the world’s most enticing spices—including vanilla, cinnamon, peppercorns, and cardamom—The New Sugar & Spiceguarantees that dessert will be the most talked-about part of your meal.Introduction 
Baking Tips, Equipment, and Ingredients 

Chapter 1 Peppercorn & Chile 
Chapter 2 Cinnamon 
Chapter 3 Nutmeg 
Chapter 4 Clove & Cardamom 
Chapter 5 Vanilla 
Chapter 6 Ginger 
Chapter 7 Savory Herbs & Spices 

Acknowledgments 
Index“Samantha Seneviratne has assembled the most beguiling collection of desserts, all of which hinge on the exotic spices she knows so well from childhood visits to her family’s native Sri Lanka. The warmth and intensity of cloves, cardamom, and other spices breathe new life into many of our favorite sweet endings—as well as an array of desserts that might be quite fresh and new to the reader. The many beautifl£3