Jewish Sweets: A Worldwide Community Cookbook of 100 Dessert Recipes

Compiled from contributions to the Jewish Food Hero Substack newsletter, Jewish Sweets brings together recipes from home bakers around the world. The collection blends traditions from various Jewish cultures with creative innovations from bakers who love to experiment.

Some of the featured treats include:

• Molten chocolate brigadeiro cake from Brazil

• Ischler cookies—chocolate-glazed walnut sandwich cookies from Austria

• Basbousa bil zabadi—a semolina and coconut cake from Egypt

• Pizza Ebraica—unleavened dried fruit cakes from Italy

• Salted halva brownies from a British contributor

• Hamantaschen with matcha red bean filling from a Taiwanese contributor

Recipes are organized into four sections: dairy, pareve, kosher-for-Passover dairy, and kosher-for-Passover pareve. Each recipe is accompanied by a photograph and a brief bio of the contributor.

Paperback. Color photographs throughout.