Modern Asian Baking at Home: Essential Sweet and Savory Recipes for Milk Bread, Mochi, Mooncakes, and More; Inspired by the Subtle Asian Baking Community Spiral-Bound | July 26, 2022

Kat Lieu

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Inspired by the global “Subtle Asian” community, Modern Asian Baking at Home features exciting, contemporary Asian-inspired ingredients and techniques bakers of all levels will want to add to their repertoires.

From the Subtle Asian Baking community comes Modern Asian Baking at Home, must-have recipes for beloved sweet and savory treats found across Asia.

*Winner of the 2023 Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Food Culture in the First Book category*
*Author Kat Lieu is a finalist for the 2023 IACP Digital Media Award for her Instagram account @subtleasian.baking*


Explore new ingredients, surprising techniques, and fun textures through lush photography and rewarding recipes that include exciting yet familiar contemporary bakes with innovative Asian twists. The results are unforgettable delights like miso-mochi brownies and spicy gochujang flourless chocolate cake. There’s even a recipe for homemade boba!

This is the perfect cookbook for anyone nostalgic for Asian desserts as well as hobbyist and avid home bakers interested in using vibrant ingredients like miso, matcha, pandan, and soy sauce to expand their repertoires. No passport is needed when you can easily create and experience popular Asian sweets and one-of-a-kind Asian-influenced drinks, custards, cakes, and frozen treats at home.

Recipes include:
 

  • Quick Microwave Mochi
  • Fluffy Japanese Pancakes
  • Lemony Matcha Macarons
  • Tangzhong Milk Bread
  • Vietnamese Egg Dalgona Coffee

Steam, fry, boil, and bake your way through this straight-from-the-heart collection of recipes!

This book is #veryasian
Publisher: Quarto Group
Original Binding: Hardcover Paper over boards
Pages: 176 pages
ISBN-10: 0760374287
Item Weight: 1.14 lbs
Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.53 x 10.0 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars 101 to 500 ratings
Subtle Asian Baking is no longer just a small community of bakers swapping recipes, but a movement for culinary innovationJessica Wei, Eater.com

Kat Lieu is the author of Modern Asian Baking at Home, winner of the 2023 Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Food Culture in the First Book category. She founded Subtle Asian Baking, a Facebook group that amassed over 10,000 members in its first month, in 2020. It is a satellite entity in the enormously popular Subtle Asian Traits universe, the destination of choice for millions of young and young-at-heart adults in the Asian diaspora worldwide—and in Asia itself—as well as for non-Asian consumers and fans of Asian cultures and cuisines. Beyond Facebook, Kat’s online portfolio encompasses TikTok, her personal blog, and Instagram. For her work on her Instagram account @subtleasian.baking, the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) has selected her as a finalist for their 2023 Digital Media Award. She lives with her family in the Seattle, Washington, area.