From Murdoch Books

If you're eating habits act like sugar is a beloved food group, then this book is for you. There's a whole gamut of dessert recipes here including tortes, cookies, muffins, pies and puddings. The collection is predominantly of classics everyone is familiar with, and the selection is relatively easy to achieve making this is a perfect guide for any sweet-toothed beginner in the kitchen. Murdoch Books has been releasing this series of ‘Chunky Cookbooks' since 2003, with themes like Bowl Food or Home Food to mention a few, and have recently given them a facelift to make them more gift-friendly. Aside from its vibrant, stylized look, there are over 200 recipes that's been laid out in a simplicity that also makes it visually appealing. Each recipe is fit neatly into a page and accompanied by a gorgeous photograph making this a great book to flick through. The recipes have been tried and tested by the publishing house's home economists in Australia, and they've been arranged into three categories (Baked, Desserts and Pies & Tarts). Since it's part of a general, themed series, Sweet Food's tone is basic and the instructions are straightforward rather than full of personality or memoir style writing like you'd expect from, say, celebrity chef cookbooks. Still, it's all easy to follow and most of the recipes require ingredients you can easily get in Hong Kong. The only requirement is that you have an oven in your kitchen as Sweet Foods covers mostly Western style (baked) treats rather than the Asian variety. Other than that, the reasonable price tag also makes this an ideal gift for those with sweet cravings.

A sneap peak inside Sweet Food: