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Product Description A YouTube star teaches you to bake ridiculously cute, Japanese-style treats, with 75 brand-new, easy-to-follow recipes for totally original and delicious cakes, candies, cookies, cupcakes, and more. “A delightful debut cookbook.”—Publishers Weekly Kawaii means “cute” in Japanese, and cuteness is the main ingredient in these sweets. In Kawaii Sweet World, YouTube sensation Rachel Fong teaches you how to bake super-easy treats that are just as fun to make as they are to eat. Whether you’re a cookie rookie or a piping pro, you’ll find tips on all the basics, from whipping up the best buttercream to using a turntable to decorate—but this is no ordinary baking book. Why have a plain layer cake when you could have a cuddly corgi cake? These seventy-five utterly unique recipes include chocolate cupcakes that transform into snuggly koalas, cake pops that are twinkly-eyed narwhals, lemon cookies that turn into emojis, and cream puffs that become little pink pigs. With Kawaii Sweet World cookbook, the fun is baked right in. Review “In this delightful debut cookbook, Fong, creator of the YouTube channel of the book’s title, transforms several classic, tasty desserts into kawaii (the Japanese word for cute) creations. . . . Committed to making sure that the desserts ‘taste just as good as they look,’ Fong provides baking techniques and tricks. . . . Readers won’t be able to resist Fong’s invitation to bake cute creations.” —Publishers Weekly About the Author RACHEL FONG is a 20-year-old, self-taught baking sensation, a YouTube star, and one of Tastemade's contracted bloggers. At age 12, she started Kawaii Sweet World, a YouTube channel dedicated to DIY-ing Kawaii crafts and baked goods. It quickly turned into a viral baking channel featuring Rachel's original Kawaii creations and has garnered over 2 million loyal fans. Fong is currently a sophomore at Stanford University. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. What is Kawaii? Before we get started baking, let’s talk about what kawaii means! Kawaii is a Japanese word that best translates to “cute,” and it describes anything lovable, cuddly, and endearing. The particular style of it is like Hello Kitty, Pokémon, and Totoro. It often manifests in cute animals (both real and illustrated) with big eyes and heads that are disproportionately large in relation to their bodies. These features emphasize an innocence and youthfulness that is a major component of kawaii style. And beyond cute cuddly creatures, kawaii also frequently means adding a face to something that normally wouldn’t have one. For example, see the smiling Sushi Cake Pops on page 197, or the Kawaii Royal Icing Cookies on page 106. These lovable expressions add personality to the otherwise inanimate objects, making them extra cute or “kawaii.” Kawaii culture is believed to have originated in the 1970s when teenagers in Japan developed a fun, childlike style of handwriting that was often accompanied by doodles of hearts, stars, and cartoon faces. Many believed this trend emerged in response to the rigidity of post-World War II Japan, as it allowed the Japanese youth to express their individuality. The Japanese stationary brand Sanrio noticed this movement and subsequently launched their cultural icon, Hello Kitty. A huge success among the Japanese population, Hello Kitty took the world by storm, ushering in a worldwide appreciation of kawaii. These days, kawaii style is used for all kinds of clothing, accessories, plush, stationary, and more! It’s truly become a cultural phenomenon, globally, and one that I adore because of how fun, colorful, and inviting it is. Panda Cake Pandas are the quintessential kawaii animal. With their big eyes and fluffy bodies, you just want to reach out and give them a big hug. But because a trip to China to see real life pandas isn’t in the books for now, I decided to create the next best thing: a cake decorated like a panda! For th
