Will This Make You Happy: Stories & Recipes from a Year of Baking by Tanya Bush

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    • Categories: Cakes, large; Dessert; Winter
    • Ingredients: almond paste; granulated sugar; unsalted butter; cream cheese; vanilla extract; eggs; oranges; all-purpose flour; almond flour; baking powder; powdered sugar; crème fraîche
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  • ISBN 10 1797227211
  • ISBN 13 9781797227214
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  • Published Mar 03 2026
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 344
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Chronicle Books

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Tanya Bush is adrift in the uncertainty of her early twenties—unemployed, uninspired, and stuck in a long-term relationship that's lost its spark. One day, just to do something, she decides to bake a cake. It's gooey in the center, woefully underbaked, an absolute disaster—but it also reminds her of the pleasures of baking: sugar crystals under her fingernails, flour in her hair, and the hard-earned satisfaction of following the steps of a recipe to the end.

Over the course of a year, Tanya embarks on a journey that carries her from her tiny apartment to the sunlit kitchens of an Italian agriturismo to the basement of a bustling Brooklyn bakery, where she rediscovers her appetite for pleasure, indulgence, and meaningful work.

A culinary memoir and love story, interwoven with over fifty innovative and approachable baking recipes, Will This Make You Happy is for readers and bakers looking for something messier, more experimental, and honest than the typical aspirational cookbook.

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