The Perfect Petite Gift

What do you do when the holiday gift giving and baking season starts? Buy Petite Treats cookbooks for yourslef and your friends. This is a delightful mini book chock full of delicious tiny sweets for not just the holidays but for everyday fun. It has everything from the original piecaken to whiskey mini cupcakes. There are dozen of neat recipes that are great to make.

The authors. Morgan Greenseth and Christy Beaver are the writers of both this book and another baking book,Mini Pies (both books are published by Ulysses Press and are $ 15.00)']\They are also the chief bakers behind Seattle's hip Mini Empire Bakery and have created these tiny yummy gems in their bakery. They are also the inventors of scookies, a cross between a scone and a cookie along with the piecaken a mini tart baked inside a cupcake. These look like fun to make along with the mini doughnuts and tiraminiscule, an elf's version of the classic tiramisu

What I like most about this book is that it's mostly vegan. Butter and shortening are replaced by vegan versions that anyone can easily pick up at Whole Foods>I like th efact that they have a non dairy butter cream.Another fun aspect of the recipes is that both Baker Greenseth and Baker Beaver use interesting ingredients such as whiskey and bacon for their whiskey maple bacon cupcakes and apple cider vinegar in almost every treat. They also put different twists on traditional recipes such as strawberry eclairs and a chocolate lava cake made with wine(along with a citrus flavored cannoli). Get Petite Treats this holiday season.It will not only give you ideas for your own mini treats but also makes a great gift for any baker .It's a little book but packs big punch.