Molly Yeh’s Sweet Farm! is a desserts-first cookbook, not a general dinner collection: William Morrow published the hardcover on March 4, 2025, with more than 100 recipes spanning cookies, cakes, pies, bars, dessert salads, breakfast sweets, no-bake treats and drinks. In a Food Network Q&A, Yeh discusses the book’s playful recipe choices, including Velveeta fudge, and the cookie her team could not stop talking about.
What is Sweet Farm!?
Sweet Farm!: Over 100 Recipes for Everyday Indulgences and Celebrations is Molly Yeh’s first cookbook devoted exclusively to desserts. Food Network describes it as more than 300 pages dedicated to sweets; that figure refers to the book’s sweets content, not necessarily its total page count. The publisher lists the hardcover as ISBN 9780063052451 and gives its publication date as March 4, 2025. William Morrow/HarperCollins catalog
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Yeh’s recipe range runs from quick treats to longer baking projects. She describes the book as including cookies, bars, salads, dessert for breakfast, cakes, pies, no-bake sweets and drinks. The author’s examples include chewy frosted tahini cookies, black sesame babka, rhubarb rose bars, saffron cardamom tiramisu, marzipan soda and a new sprinkle cake. Molly Yeh’s book page
How does Yeh’s background shape the recipes?
The book brings together flavors and traditions from Yeh’s Chinese-Jewish background and her life on a Midwestern farm. Publishers Weekly points to red bean newtons, hamantaschen-inspired thumbprints, sweets made with potato dough, tahini peanut butter fudge pie and dessert salads as examples of that blend. Publishers Weekly review
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Why are there salads in a dessert cookbook?
These are dessert salads, not leafy green sides. Yeh uses the category as a playful nod to Midwestern church-cookbook traditions, where sweet, creamy dishes may be called salads. Food Network names candy bar salad as one example; Yeh’s book also features blueberry cream cheese bagel chip salad. Food Network Q&A
What did Yeh say about the book’s unusual recipes?
Asked whether she had to persuade her editor to include an unusual recipe, Yeh said her editor, Cassie, supported her style and “Didn’t even say a peep about the Velveeta Fudge.” The anecdote captures the book’s willingness to treat unexpected ingredients and nostalgic forms as part of the fun, rather than as recipes that need to be made conventional.
The larder cabinet cookies
Yeh says the larder cabinet cookies became a team favorite. Though she describes herself as more of a cake person, she recalls that the cookies “kept getting really excited reactions.” Their mix includes “halva, pistachios, raspberries, coconut, roses and pita chips!” Those ingredient combinations make the cookie a compact example of the book’s sweet-and-savory, cross-cultural spirit.
What kind of reader is the book for?
- Readers looking for a dessert-focused collection: the book is explicitly sweets-only, with more than 100 recipes advertised by the publisher.
- Bakers open to unexpected combinations: recipes such as Velveeta fudge and cookies with halva, roses and pita chips favor playfulness over strict convention.
- Fans of Yeh’s cultural and regional influences: the collection draws on Chinese-Jewish flavors and Midwestern farm-life traditions, including retro-style dessert salads.
The clearest edition identified by the publisher is the hardcover, ISBN 9780063052451. For the publication details, see the publisher catalog.
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