Sweet Heart: Natalie Paull in conversation

About

Natalie Paull is one of our favourite authors — and one of our favourite customers, too.

We’ve known Nat for almost as long as we’ve owned our bookstore. Over the years, we’ve loved introducing her to books we cherish, delighting in her cooking and baking around town, crying when her cult bakery, Beatrix, closed, and cheering loudly (and baking furiously) to celebrate the publication of her first book, Beatrix Bakes.

Nat very kindly let us launch both her first book and then her second, Another Slice, to great acclaim. Full of warmth, comfort and delicious cake, they are books we love recommending and selling to beginner and experienced bakers alike. Fulsome, beautifully written instructions thoughtfully guide any baker towards a better bake, enhancing Nat’s delicious — and often brilliant — recipes. If you want to bake cake, Natalie Paull is your guide. Nay, your baking goddess.

So it was with enormous excitement that we received an advance copy of Natalie’s third book, due out in September: Sweet Heart.

Rest assured: if you bake, you need this book, too.

The eight chapters organise Nat’s new collection of recipes by flavour: fruity; dark, bitter and sticky; tart n’ tangy; creamy; nutty; yeasty; fluffy and flakey; and spicy. And it’s not just cake. There are bars, biscuits, scones, cookies, mousses, creams, jellies, doughnuts, crullers and more.

Every recipe offers options for adapting, hints for perfecting and tips that will make you a better baker and your baking even more…