Handfuls of Sunshine
Perfect bite-sized bakes
Published on 1. July 2025
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-76150-031-2 (ISBN)
Description
Here's to the little luxuries that make life all the sweeter...
Tilly Pamment, author of The Plain Cake Appreciation Society, returns with this collection of more than 70 irresistible recipes for bite-sized bakes. Whether eaten gleefully, warm from the oven (no plate needed!), passed around to share, or batched and squirrelled away for a rainy day, these recipes are all designed to bring a handful of sweet joy to any moment, and don't we all need a little more of that?
Chapters include:
Homemade Sunbeams & Slices of Joy - bars of sunny lemon and passionfruit, squares of rich chocolate and marmalade, crackly sour-cream brownies
Baby Cakes & Buttery Bliss - buttery, fruit-studded, sticky and chocolatey ... who could possibly feel guilty about such a teeny-tiny treat?
Pantry Keepers & Postable Love - bakes with longevity, just begging to be packed up and shared with care; think cinnamon stars, gingerbread and a heavenly rocky road.
Spread a little sunshine by whipping up a batch of homemade, shareable love.
Tilly Pamment, author of The Plain Cake Appreciation Society, returns with this collection of more than 70 irresistible recipes for bite-sized bakes. Whether eaten gleefully, warm from the oven (no plate needed!), passed around to share, or batched and squirrelled away for a rainy day, these recipes are all designed to bring a handful of sweet joy to any moment, and don't we all need a little more of that?
Chapters include:
Homemade Sunbeams & Slices of Joy - bars of sunny lemon and passionfruit, squares of rich chocolate and marmalade, crackly sour-cream brownies
Baby Cakes & Buttery Bliss - buttery, fruit-studded, sticky and chocolatey ... who could possibly feel guilty about such a teeny-tiny treat?
Pantry Keepers & Postable Love - bakes with longevity, just begging to be packed up and shared with care; think cinnamon stars, gingerbread and a heavenly rocky road.
Spread a little sunshine by whipping up a batch of homemade, shareable love.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Millers Point
Australia
Illustrations
colour
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
896 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-76150-031-2 (9781761500312)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Tilly Pamment is an Australian recipe writer, photographer and stylist. She lives in the Blue Mountains with her husband and two children, and is the creative brain behind @tillys_table, where she shares her seasonal baking recipes and inspiration with a community of like-minded pleasure seekers. She is the author of international bestseller The Plain Cake Appreciation Society.
Content
1. Handfuls of Sunshine & Slices of Joy
Mango & Lime Cheesecake Bars
Bakewell Slice
Passionfruit Sunshine Slice
Chocolate & Marmalade Shortbread Squares
Apricot, Almond & Coconut Muesli Bars
Sour Cream Brownies
Raspberry & Peach Late-summer Slice
Pecan, Caramel & Ginger Bars
Quince & Ricotta Crumble Squares
A Very Easy Chocolate Coconut Slice
Orange Blossom & Apricot Jam Slice
2. Biscuit Crumbs, Coconut & Chocolate Kisses
Coconut Jam Drops
Chocolate Hazelnut Thumbprints (GF)
Very Short Lemon Shortbread
Baby Meringues (GF)
Burnt Butter, Rye & Chocolate Chip Cookies
Passionfruit & Citrus Melting Moments
Burnt Butter Oat Bars
Chewy Chocolate Mint Sandwiches
Matcha, Rose & Strawberry Cookies
Chocolate Coconut Meringues (GF)
Plum Jam Monte Carlos
3. Rose Petals, Custard & Pastry-flecked Dreams
Short Sweet Pastry
Flaky Sour Cream Spelt Pastry
Peach & Custard Cream Tarts
Rhubarb & Strawberry Galettes Jam Tarts
Chocolate Hazelnut Tarts
Apricot Turnovers
Lemon Gems
Little Apricot & Earl Grey Tarts
Baked Custard & Plum Tarts
Fruit Mince & Frangipane Pies
Pear, Prune & Hazelnut Galettes
4. Baby Cakes & Butter Love
Baby Cakes
Apricot, Polenta & Saffron Tea Cakes
Blackberry, Bay & White Chocolate Muffins
Sticky Prune, Pear & Ginger Cakes with Ginger Caramel
Little Pound Cakes
Quince & Frangipane Cakes (GF)
Cardamom, Bay & Orange Madeleines
Coconut & Passionfruit Loaves
Mango & Passionfruit Cream Cakes
Strawberry & Rhubarb Jam Victoria Sponges
Blueberry, Coconut & Lemon Bars (GF)
Sunken Chocolate Cheesecakes (GF)
Hazelnut Lamington Fingers
5. Sugared Scones, Pikelets & Sticky Buns
Buttermilk Pikelets
Coconut Buns
Date & Ginger Scones
Sugared Buttermilk & Lemon Scones
Cardamom Tea Buns
Pumpkin & Prune Scones
Apple & Cinnamon Streusel Kuchen
Apricot & Sultana Hot Cross Buns
6. Pantry Keepers & Postable Love
Lemon & Fennel Seed Amaretti (GF)
Apricot Shortbread Slice
Double Chocolate & Ginger Biscotti
Earl Grey & Polenta Rounds
Sour Cherry, Pistachio & Rose Rocky Road (GF)
Chai & Almond Crescents
Malted Hazelnut Blondies
Cinnamon Maple Stars (GF)
Gently Spiced Gingerbread
7. Puddles of Jam & Sweet Baked Fruit
Roast Apricot Jam
Plum & Star Anise Jam
Passionfruit Curd
Strawberry & Rhubarb Jam
Baked Stone Fruit
Marmalade Baked Rhubarb
Baked Quince
Good Fruit Mince
Mango & Lime Cheesecake Bars
Bakewell Slice
Passionfruit Sunshine Slice
Chocolate & Marmalade Shortbread Squares
Apricot, Almond & Coconut Muesli Bars
Sour Cream Brownies
Raspberry & Peach Late-summer Slice
Pecan, Caramel & Ginger Bars
Quince & Ricotta Crumble Squares
A Very Easy Chocolate Coconut Slice
Orange Blossom & Apricot Jam Slice
2. Biscuit Crumbs, Coconut & Chocolate Kisses
Coconut Jam Drops
Chocolate Hazelnut Thumbprints (GF)
Very Short Lemon Shortbread
Baby Meringues (GF)
Burnt Butter, Rye & Chocolate Chip Cookies
Passionfruit & Citrus Melting Moments
Burnt Butter Oat Bars
Chewy Chocolate Mint Sandwiches
Matcha, Rose & Strawberry Cookies
Chocolate Coconut Meringues (GF)
Plum Jam Monte Carlos
3. Rose Petals, Custard & Pastry-flecked Dreams
Short Sweet Pastry
Flaky Sour Cream Spelt Pastry
Peach & Custard Cream Tarts
Rhubarb & Strawberry Galettes Jam Tarts
Chocolate Hazelnut Tarts
Apricot Turnovers
Lemon Gems
Little Apricot & Earl Grey Tarts
Baked Custard & Plum Tarts
Fruit Mince & Frangipane Pies
Pear, Prune & Hazelnut Galettes
4. Baby Cakes & Butter Love
Baby Cakes
Apricot, Polenta & Saffron Tea Cakes
Blackberry, Bay & White Chocolate Muffins
Sticky Prune, Pear & Ginger Cakes with Ginger Caramel
Little Pound Cakes
Quince & Frangipane Cakes (GF)
Cardamom, Bay & Orange Madeleines
Coconut & Passionfruit Loaves
Mango & Passionfruit Cream Cakes
Strawberry & Rhubarb Jam Victoria Sponges
Blueberry, Coconut & Lemon Bars (GF)
Sunken Chocolate Cheesecakes (GF)
Hazelnut Lamington Fingers
5. Sugared Scones, Pikelets & Sticky Buns
Buttermilk Pikelets
Coconut Buns
Date & Ginger Scones
Sugared Buttermilk & Lemon Scones
Cardamom Tea Buns
Pumpkin & Prune Scones
Apple & Cinnamon Streusel Kuchen
Apricot & Sultana Hot Cross Buns
6. Pantry Keepers & Postable Love
Lemon & Fennel Seed Amaretti (GF)
Apricot Shortbread Slice
Double Chocolate & Ginger Biscotti
Earl Grey & Polenta Rounds
Sour Cherry, Pistachio & Rose Rocky Road (GF)
Chai & Almond Crescents
Malted Hazelnut Blondies
Cinnamon Maple Stars (GF)
Gently Spiced Gingerbread
7. Puddles of Jam & Sweet Baked Fruit
Roast Apricot Jam
Plum & Star Anise Jam
Passionfruit Curd
Strawberry & Rhubarb Jam
Baked Stone Fruit
Marmalade Baked Rhubarb
Baked Quince
Good Fruit Mince