Just like Grumpy Cat, who is totally negative but very funny, Heather Kim has come up with a very clever cookbook Sweet Revenge: Passive-Aggressive Desserts for Your Exes & Enemies, which includes decadent desserts and baked goods to make for all the wrong reasons. The premise is very clever, and makes for fun reading. For whatever reason you may want to bake, the recipes are definitely worth making. I prefer to bake for people I love, and am busy enough that I don’t worry about people who have offended me; nor am I willing to spend valuable time baking a treat for someone I don’t like. However, I do make time to bake the treats in this excellent cookbook; I’d rather serve them to friends. No matter what your reasons may be for baking, the recipes in this book are tempting enough that everyone will find dozens of things to bake.

Some of the clever names of the baked goods are: I Couldn’t Carrot All Cake, I Don't Give a Fig About You (yummy, buttery fig bars), You’re the Devil Food Cake, Stop Texting Me You Crepe (Oreo Crepe Cake), and I Wish You Were Bread, to name as few. The chapter headings are equally fun, i.e., I Never Kneaded You Anyway, and Forgetting You was a Piece of Cake.

All told, Sweet Revenge: Passive-Aggressive Desserts for Your Exes & Enemies is an entertaining cookbook with plenty of clever prose, as well as fabulous baked goods. The photographs are fabulous, and there are small sections with helpful hints, like a visual nut guide, a conversion table from US to metric, Essential tools for baking the treats in the book, and the different kinds of sugar. The recipes are well-written, easy to understand, and actually turn out like the pictures. Although the author is a pastry chef, you don’t have to be one to turn out these beautiful desserts.

If you have a sense of humor, and love homemade baked goods, you’ll definitely want to own this fun cookbook.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

Wonderful sweet desserts to make on your own with healthy ingredients....

This was really fun read. I would give this out as a holiday gift to my friends.

As someone who loves to cook and who borders on being very passive aggressive, this book intrigued me with its concept alone. It actually delivered what it says it will i.e.: recipes for delicious deserts with a side of passive-aggressive humour. Not only are the desserts photographed to look delicious, they actually taste that way. They have hilarious names and the writing itself is witty and enjoyable. This book is meant for someone who is going through a back break up or dealing with enemies but it can be enjoyed by someone who just wants a funny book with yummy recipes. This book would provide healing for someone who is feeling down but I would caution there is a adult language and humour in it.Thanks so much to Netgalley for giving me an ARC in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.

When I was reading the intro all I could think was; I am out of my lingo league here! I'm too old to even understand what's she's saying!
But THEN the recipes came and I understood perfectly!
I have tried a couple in Sweet Revenge:Passive-Aggressive Desserts for Your Exes & Enemies and every recipe was perfection.
There are so many recipes I can easily adapt to Paleo changing out the sugar and I can't wait to get my grocery list and get in the kitchen!
Heather Kim has a gift and I'm glad she's shared!
Ginger Snaps and Candied Bacon, shot, I'll break up with my husband of 47 years if he'll cook these revenge recipes!
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Hilarious snark delivered through delicious recipes.

Cute chapter titles:
I never Kneaded you anyway
Forgetting you was a piece of cake

Funny recipe names:
I wish you were bread
It's not you, it's Brie
Go fudge yourself

Interesting ingredients such as:
hot cheetos
funyuns
fritos

This book would make a SUPER great gift for someone going through a breakup or trying to get over an ex. It was a fun read with yummy recipes. Will definitely buy for my library.

Heather Kim manages to be snarky with her recipe titles (including some sneaky "treats") and sensible with her advice. The result is a deliciously different cookbook.

Sweet Revenge: Passive-Aggressive Desserts for Your Exes & Enemies is targeted for teens and young adults but I consider her target audience ageless. We've all had romantic or friendship disasters and using a cookbook to help sweeten the ending of a doomed relationship should help almost anyone.

I loved the author's wit and style of writing. It's not often I smile and chuckle while reading a cookbook but I did when I read Sweet Revenge.

The author, Heather Kim, prefaces her book with "this is a cookbook" and her book lives up to its name. Some of her recipes are a bit odd but most are traditional sweets that can be baked when you are feeling the need for some sweetness in your life.

You will find the following chapters in her book:

Revenge is Best Served Warm (A note from Heather Kim)
Grab Life By the Milkballs (AKA How to Use this Book)
Go Ahead Bite-Me Sized Treats (Cookies, Bars and Balls)
Forgetting You Was a Piece of Cake (Cakes and Cupcakes)
I Never Kneaded You Anyway (Breads and Pastries)
Buh-Bye Sweet Stuff (Candies, Creams and More)

Recommend.

Review written after downloading a galley from Net Galley.

I love every aspect of this cookbook! The recipes range from traditional to quirky (Cool Ranch Doritos, bacon, and day-old bagels are just some of the odder ingredients for dessert recipes). There are colorful pictures for each recipe which is vital for someone like me who bakes only once a year, if that. The directions are written clearly and sometimes have written notes included that tell you when to really pound the ex, I mean dough. I love the fonts and colors throughout the book and just looking at this book can brighten someone's day.

Honestly, I would read this book over and over again without baking anything. The sarcasm and puns in this book can help anyone who is getting over someone who wronged them and even get out some aggression throughout the baking process. I cannot wait for this to go on sale! I am buying multiple copies because we have all been wronged by someone in our lives. This is a funny (and delicious) way to deal with those less than stellar situations.

Sometimes I'll pick a book up just for it's title or it's cover. If it's a cookbook we're talking about with the promise of gratuitous puns, well, I'm pretty sold.

The book delivers on promised tone and puns both, fun, snarky, and well explained. The recipes veer into the unexpected, with the inclusion of various snack foods such as Doritos and Hot Cheetos as part of the flavor, texture, or highlight of sweet treats. But even if you're conservative when it comes to flavor combinations, there's plenty for you here, and a number of recipes you can make a more traditional version of by simply sidestepping the inclusion of the salty munchie in question.

A fun addition to your cookbook collection, and if you're in a library one I think that will definitely circulate on amusement value alone.

Beautiful, bold, delicious Desserts. Absolutely loved this cookbook. Very entertaining, beautiful, bold photos, and the recipes are absolutely and delightfully entertaining. A must read.

I loved this book, not only is it full of great recipes it also has a ton of wicked puns and humor. I wish I were upset with someone just to send them one these "treacherous" desserts. Hopefully it doesn't expire too soon before I get to make one or more of these "wicked" treats. *Definitely for the younger crowd though maybe t(w)eens to mid 20's

The idea this book brings is 'get over your frustrations and anger with cooking'.
As the title implies is a dessert cookbook for those who have a 'broken heart'.
Is a great book, specially for beginners. It has full instructions and images.
The recipes have 'easy to find' ingredients, they're quick, creative and look delicious.
I like the photography, the setting of the book in general and obviously the recipes.

I was disappointed to find this was not Kindle friendly. I am giving it three stars because Netgalley no longer lets us give a non-rated review for dnfs and books that were not noted as not Kindle downloadable. As this was an unread book I couldn't say yay or nay... hence a neutral star rating. I can't have an unread book sitting on my shelf and throwing off my ratio percentages.

What a fun book!!! I really had no idea what I was getting myself into this book but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm not surer how I would categorize the book but I do know I would defiantly pick up a copy to give one of me friends if they were dumped. There are some beautiful photos and recipes in the book and the author takes the time to educate the reader on different types of sugar and flours in a humorous way. All the recipes have cute names my favorite is Bite Me, Scum Muffin - Five Spice Donut Muffins. I can't wait to make all these yummy looking desserts and keep them to myself!!!

I have pretty low expectations for cookbooks. If it's simply a collection of pretty good recipes, I'm in! However, Sweet Revenge is an EXPERIENCE that is frenetic and high energy and very.......rad! If you're a dessert lover who also likes profanity and puns, well talk about a niche and awesome intersection. The recipes are mouthwatering and many skate that delicious edge of sweet and salty that I love so much. Plus the pictures are so great this would make a fun coffee table book. Loved it!

Thanks to NetGalley for making an advance copy of this title available for an unbiased review . . .

. . . But now I don't know how I'm going to wait until January to get this title on my library shelf and on my kitchen shelf. (Multiple copies will have to be purchased.) This is a great book on so many levels. It offers great recipes. It gives a method of healing. It gives useful knowledge of things like different sugars and flours that I haven't see elsewhere. -An it offers a good dose of humor with "tasteful" puns such as Everyday I Regret You Smores, Stop Texting Me You Crepe, I Wish You Were Bread, When I Think of You Ice Cream, You're a Piece of Sheet Cake, etc. Every page is a visual, culinary, and mirthful delight!

Sweet Revenge is a laugh out loud, clever, and tasty morsel of a cookbook. I read this all the way through in about an hour and enjoyed every second of it. I love how unique the concept is! Sweet Revenge provides those who have been hurt or betrayed with a constructive outlet and I absolutely adore that. While some of the recipes had me questioning the ingredients I think this was a well executed and overall fun read! I've already attempted a couple of recipes but am leaving the more ambitious ones for another time. They are simple enough and easy to follow. Plus you get bonus pictures of the food! Even if you don't try baking the dishes you'll love it just for the witty remarks and dessert names alone!!!

I love this cook book! I have the biggest sweet tooth and the recipes in this book all look amazing! So far I have made the Pumpkin Spice Latte Balls and the Crumby Coffee Cake and they were both so good and pretty easy to make. I can't wait to try more! Aside from the recipes being great, this is a really fun cook book too. I love the theme, the cute names for the desserts, and the fun illustrations throughout.

This cookbook is awesome. I see that it is geared towards teens on amazon but in all honestly I think this is for anyone that has went through relationship troubles. I didn't try any of the recipies but I will try to get the book from my library and try them. Cute illustrations, a little to many non-recipie pages but all in all a really nice cookbook.