Wild Sugar: Seasonal Sweet Treats Inspired by the Mountain West + Giveaway

Find seasonal recipes to make stunning cookies, pies, cakes, and other sweet treats in a beautiful new cookbook, Wild Sugar: Seasonal Sweet Treats Inspired by the Mountain West.

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Calling all baking enthusiasts, how about some sweet treats to celebrate Valentine’s Day?

I’m sharing a beautiful new cookbook full of mouth-watering treats and baking inspiration:

Wild Sugar: Seasonal Sweet Treats Inspired by the Mountain West

Lindsey Johnson, along with Chase Reynolds Ewald, often find their cooking and baking muse from life in the West. Flavor profiles, ingredients, and artistic decorating ideas are all sparked by the romantic and rustic western mountains.

In Wild Sugar: Sweet Treats Inspired by the Mountain West, Lindsey teaches you how to create amazing desserts with more than 50 recipes plus additional frostings, fillings, and toppings that are based on seasonal ingredients. These recipes are designed for the home baker, and her detailed instructions along with decorating tips and hints, will have you serving showcase cookies, pies, cakes, and sweets in no time.

Help yourself to a virtual taste of this beautifully photographed cookbook and sweet treats!

You’ll find delicious recipes inspired by the seasons,

from home style brownies to delicately layered cakes. . .

Cake and cookie decorating inspiration and ideas with piping and painting techniques. . .

High altitude baking instructions. . .

And baking tips, tricks, and tools, like how to master the perfect pie crust.

Feast your eyes on these beautiful

Vanilla Shorbread Cookies with edible pressed flowers . . .

And pressed and dehydrated edible flowers on this impressive four-tier cake!

I’m inspired to make my own edible pressed flowers this summer using a

Microwave Flower Press!

There are so many tempting and artfully inspired sweets in these pages. . .

How about Bourbon Banana Cake with Bourbon Cream Cheese Buttercream

with edible gold leaf?

For peanut butter and chocolate fans . . .

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Oreo Cake with frosted tree sugar cones!

Or Peanut Butter Swirl Fudge Brownies

To celebrate the Red, White and Blue,

Dark Red Velvet Cake with Chocolate Ganache, Cream Cheese Frosting

and RW&B Meringue Cookies

Everything’s better with sprinkles including

Confetti Birthday Cake with Sour Cream-Vanilla Buttercream

And for the holidays, Spiced Eggnog Cake, decorated with sprigs of fresh rosemary,

cranberries and coated in edible gold luster dust.

How about these decadent Chewy White Chocolate-Brown Butter Blondies,

drizzzled with Salted Carmel Sauce?

Or Huckleberry Crumble Bars with Citrus Glaze

and Shortbread Crust?

Calling all chocoholics (myself included :) bake up a batch of

Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies . . .

Or Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

with Espresso and Sea Salt

For pie lovers. . .

Blackberry-Buttermilk Pie with Vanilla Whipped Cream

Brown Butter and Bourbon Pecan Pie with Bittersweet Chocolate

Or Apricot and Raspberry Pie. . . whew, that’s about a million calories,

good thing cyber calories don’t count. ;)

Other recipes that sound tempting were Hummingbird Cake with Spiced Rum Buttercream,

Orange Zested Cardamom-Spiced Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting,

 Bourbon Pumpkin Cheesecake and Grand Marnier Million Dollar Shortbread Bars!

After spending more than a decade in the design world, Lindsey began to harness her artistry and passion in one place: Her kitchen. She never would have guessed her favored artistic medium would be butter and sugar or that she would spend the majority of her days thinking about cake design, dinner parties, creating the perfect styling of dessert tables, and making edible art to bring people joy. She lives in the Wild West, on a 20-acre ranch, in Freedom, Wyoming with her husband, three boys and is the keeper of chickens, pigs, goats, a dog, and a gentle Jersey cow named Trouble.

Chase Reynolds Ewald’s career encompasses sixteen books, two Western Design Conference Sourcebooks, and hundreds of magazine articles. She is a writer and editor who helps clients craft their stories and an enthusiastic cook and road-tripper around the West. Chase lives in northern California with her husband and their four daughters.

Gibbs Smith Books has provided me a copy of Wild Sugar to give away to one reader.

For a chance to win a copy, leave a comment and tell me your favorite cake, pie or cookie to bake.

Are you team cake or team pie?

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This giveaway is open to those living in the continental U.S. through midnight February 21st.

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.

 Red Velvet Cookie Sandwiches look as delicious as they are beautiful!

While they’re not in the cookbook, I included them for a nod to Valentine’s Day today.

The recipe can be found on Lindsey’s website, The Lady in the Wild West, along with more of her cake art and recipes.

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“Bake with your kids. It’s a wonderful craft, teaching them motor skills, math, measuring, artistic expression, and patience. They’ll be so proud of what they create! Time in the kitchen is quality time. Embrace the moment…cleaning up can wait.”

– Lindsey Johnson

Wild Sugar: Seasonal Sweet Treats Inspired by the Mountain West

is available for pre-order and releases February 27th, 2024.

Thank you to Gibbs Smith Books Publisher for providing a copy of Wild Sugar for my review and giveaway.

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