This book was so beautiful! The images are colorful, the directions seem easy to follow, and I love the composition of the cookbook itself. I definitely want to purchase a hardcover copy for myself when this comes out, I’ll absolutely be following along with these recipes, especially the coconut-based cakes.

It seems that recently everyone is looking for alternatives to the same old recipes . Also with all the food allergies and people who are looking to become meat or diary free this is a great welcome to any bookshelf.

The author offers easy step by steps instructions and photos that jump off the page. From Snack cakes to party cakes the amount of desserts is endless. I also enjoyed the brief history of the plant based history is informative.

I made the Pistachio cake with Strawberry Meringue Buttercream ( absolutely delicious) and my friend made the Easy Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache Frosting.

I just reviewed Plantcakes by Lyndsay Sung. #NetGalley

A beautiful and delicious book!! Highly recommend to anyone looking for fruity and fun desserts.

Thank you to NetGalley and to the publisher for this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is a bright and colorful book with recipes to accommodate anyone with a good allergy in your life.
My husband can't have dairy and I work on desserts he can eat so this is a great addition to my collection. Can't wait to purchase this when it comes out.
I think this will be a hit at libraries and bookstores alike as the world has leaned more into baking to accommodate allergies.

Thanks NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC!

Synopsis (from Netgalley, the provider of the book for me to review.)
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Plant-based baking like you’ve never seen, or tasted, before—bursting with colour, flavour, and fun! Plantcakes is a boldly beautiful baking book for everyone who loves cake!

Whether you’re all in on the plant-based lifestyle or you’re just a bit plant-curious, you’ll find the vegan cakes of your dreams in Plantcakes. Inside are recipes for cakes of all shapes and sizes, to fill any craving or occasion—from a rainy Wednesday slice of emotional eating to a spectacular sheet cake for a crowd. You’ll never be short of options with chapters on:
• Snacking Cakes: When you need to snack and need to snack now, whip up the Orange Citrus Cake or Blueberry Sour Cream Streusel Cake
• Two-Layer Cakes: Keep it casual and cool with the Dark Chocolate Cake, Supermarket Bakery–Style Cake, or Vanilla Almond Raspberry Cake
• Three-Layer Cakes: When you feel like getting fancy, there’s the Coffee Milk Cake, Passion Fruit Vanilla Bean Ombré Cake, or the PB+J Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Cup Crunch
• Party Time (or every day) Cupcakes: When cupcakes are called for, try the Garden Party Vanilla Lemon Cupcakes or the “They Don’t Know They’re Healthy” Banana Chocolate Chip Cupcakes
• Wildcard Cakes: To really take the cake, turn to the Abstract Buttercream Painted Blackberry Cake or Mocha Dacquoise Cake

Fun and fanciful, the recipes in Plantcakes are also extremely approachable. With step-by-step instructions, easy-to-find ingredients, and accessible plant-based alternatives for all the baking essentials, Plantcakes makes vegan baking a breeze. Whether you’ve never baked before or are an experienced baker ready to explore the vegan side, you’re bound to learn a thing or two—like how to make the best buttercream ever (without the butter!) or some sweet piping techniques—from the self-taught baker, Lyndsay Sung, creator of the wildly popular cake making and decorating site, Coco Cake Land.

The book’s eye-popping photography leaps right off the page, and its vibrant, kaleidoscopic design brings everything together in one irresistibly sweet package. Plantcakes is the perfect gift for all the plant-based and plant-curious people in your life, bringing cake to the people in the most delightful, plant-based way. Let’s all eat (vegan) cake!

We have so many allergies in our extended family that sometimes vegan food is the only thing I can think to bring to a family dinner! (Try making a meal with allergies to fish, seafood, nuts, dairy, parsley, cilantro, pork, and sesame, along with a coeliac, an orthorexic, one who only eats alkaline and a binge eater! I threaten to feed them a case of alkaline water and leave it at that.) Now at least I can make dessert.

The buttercream frosting aspect of the desserts alone made me want to read this book as I have yet to be able to make one that didn’t seem cloyingly awful of the vegetable shortening needed to make it dairy-free. I am not sure why anyone would want to recreate supermarket cakes ... nostalgia???

We cannot keep plant-based recipe books on our shelves (it’s gone beyond trendy) so this one will fly off as well – well written, lots of information and easy to follow: you don’t need to be a baker to get great results from this book. #shortbutsweetreviews