Hi! Okay. *Breathes into paper bag*. Big announcement!! My debut cookbook, MORE THAN CAKE, will be published by @artisan_books next spring, AND it is available for pre-order NOW online or at your favorite local bookstore! A little context: I started working on the proposal deep in the winter of 2019, when I met—and quickly became enamored with—my indispensable book agent Kitty Cowles. It was a different book kernel back then; it felt like the only stories I knew how to tell were of the time I spent baking in fancy restaurants. When I crept back to the idea of writing a book, over 6 months later, I completely scrapped that proposal, returning instead to the ideas and feelings that brought me to pastry in the first place—that baking is an infinite, generous tool, a set of soothing strategies, that bring us closer to each other, and can be used to express your values and how you want to live in this world and show up for your community. I spent the first two months of the pandemic rewriting the proposal, which was excruciating but exhilarating. (I didn’t own a computer then and wrote it on my iPhone but we’ll come back to that later). I had a secret project that kept me busy and thinking about the future. Then I spent the next two years developing over 100 new recipes, writing every single word (and then deleting most of them) from my little apartment and different libraries around the city, producing and food styling four (!) unforgettable photo shoots, and just generally throwing my entire heart and soul into these pages. Bringing this book to life is the hardest and scariest thing I have ever done, which is to say I will NOT stop talking about the actual geniuses that make this book so great. The photographs and illustrations and layout and structure and props and feel come from the minds of MANY fascinating and cool people and I am SO pumped to share more about their contributions. But for now, click on the link in my bio. If you like what you see, I hope you’ll consider pre-ordering it for yourself or someone else in your life. Thank you so so SO SO much!!! 📸📙: @graydonherriott (🤯❤️!!)