Arlyn Osborne is an American-Filipino food writer who, if you’ve been hankering for a collection of Pinoy-inspired sweet recipes, totally read your mind. There’s not much else like her book Sugarcane around, described on the cover as ‘sweet recipes from my half-Filipino kitchen.’ Mostly, these aren’t straight Filipino dishes, they’re largely where she imposes traditional flavours and ingredient combos…

If you love baking books with a warm tone, some ripper recipes to really stretch your skills, and razor-sharp instructions for optimum success, you’ll love this adorable new book from cult-followed Melbourne baker Natalie Paull. Every day before it sadly shuttered in 2022, her cute cafe Beatrix Bakes attracted the cake-erati, salivating for innovative takes on Aussie, Euro and American classics…