Sally McKenney - Sallys Baking Addiction Irresistible Cupcakes, Cookies, and Desserts for Your Sweet Tooth Fix

Roasting smores with my best friend Amy. Amys favorite dessert is on !

I ts early Saturday morning. Ive been holed up in my closet-sized kitchen for hours. Theres flour on my face, melted butter splatters on my cabinets, dirty dishes are multiplying, and my recipe notes are nothing more than chicken scratch on chocolate-stained paper.

Theres truly nowhere else Id rather be.

Welcome to my addiction.

I never set out to build a website that regularly receives over 3 million views per month. My goal when I started Sallys Baking Addiction was simply to share the recipes I baked with my friends and family. My mom and fianc were the only two people to subscribe for the first few months. I remember the day I had 10 page views. Then 100, then 1,000. Within 18 months, my blog had exploded, and I had to quit my day job working in finance to keep up with it all. Sallys Baking Addiction is not just a job or a hobby anymore; its my life!

I grew up learning that good food can bring loved ones together. We ate homemade bread and lush veggies from my grandmas garden, along with her fresh boysenberry jam. The holidays meant Moms gingersnaps () before I stumbled upon the perfect combination of ingredients. Thats a lot of chocolate chips! Im pretty sure I singlehandedly keep Nestle Toll House in business.

Familiar ingredients and easy instructions can produce extraordinary food. What makes my kitchen-tested recipes fun to prepare is how uncomplicated they are. There are a million places you need to be each day, and the kitchen isnt necessarily one of them. My goal for this book is to bring you back to the kitchen and show you that baking the perfect vanilla cupcake from scratch is not only delicious, its also simple and funand from the heart. Sprinkles are an added bonus, of course!

Ill be honestwhen I was first approached to write this cookbook, I nearly fell out of my chair. Someone wants to put my recipes in a book? Would anyone even want to read it? Then I remembered that I had the same reservations when I began Sallys Baking Addiction back in 2011. But it turns out that sharing my recipes, my kitchen mistakes, and my solutions, with readers enables me to bring joy to their lives through food, and that is what inspires me to work harder and keep going. After all, Im a one-woman showI bake it, I write it, and I shoot it!

The pages of this book are filled with desserts, muffins, cakes, cookies, candies, and more. I even included a substantial chapter dedicated to healthier recipes for those who follow vegan and gluten-free lifestyles. I am planning a wedding after all, so I cant live on peanut butter cups alone! (I cant, right?)

Just a quick note before you get started pursuing your baking addiction. It might help to review some of my baking essentials (such as key ingredients and handy supplies) over the next few pages and see which ones you dont have in your kitchen. The extra few minutes you spend reading it will probably make baking a little easier.

Whether you are a novice or an experienced baker, I truly hope the recipes on these pages become a permanent part of your repertoireand I hope you have a sweet tooth!