Handfuls of Sunshine: Perfect bite-sized bakes

by Tilly Pamment

Overview

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 & Slicesof 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781761500312
Publisher:	Murdoch Books
Publication date:	09/02/2025
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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 and Handfuls of Sunshine: Perfect bit'sized bakes.

Table of Contents

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