I wrote a book once?

Yep. That happened.

Spread Love (and Buttercream!):

Recipes & Reflections Where Love is the First Ingredient and a Sweeter World is ours for the Baking

Released December 4, 2020


With this cookbook, you have everything you need to show some extra love to yourself, your relationships, and your sweet tooth. Among delicious cupcake recipes, the chapters sprinkle in supportive and meaningful conversations about how we can make the world a sweeter place with more love and affirmation in our lives and relationships.

This cookbook is a journey from start to finish. It opens with beginner-friendly cupcake basics and lays a solid foundation for enhancing our most important relationship-our relationships with ourselves. As you get further into the book, the recipes advance with more intricate and show-stopping recipes and the conversation turns toward how we can put more love and kindness into our relationships and the world as a whole.

As with any important self-journey, there may be difficult conversations and hard truths along the way. But don't worry, you're not in it alone. Rather than the detached voice of some expert or instructor, we discuss these topics in an intimate way where you feel as though you're having a loving conversation with a lifelong friend. As a book about putting more love into the world, you feel loved and supported as you engage with the discussions throughout. Anything else would be simply hypocritical.

Between the recipes and reflections, this book is guaranteed to be a treat for your heart, soul, and sugar cravings.

“This book is inspiring for the baker in each of us, but also for the human in each of us.”

Dr. Markie L. C. Twist American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Clinical Fellow and Supervisor, Editor-in-Chief of Sexual & Relationship Therapy: International Perspective on Theory, Research, and Practice

“The honest and radical inspiration for readers to learn self-love is like having a weight lifted off my shoulders… this book does it with revolutionary self-acceptance and love.”

Amy Huo 2019 Best Chef for Volume One Magazine’s “Best of the Chippewa Valley” and contestant on Food Network’s Guy’s Grocery Games

Awarded Five Stars on Reader’s Favorite

“…an insightful and thought-provoking book where the author shares words of wisdom and lessons they learned from experiences in life along with baking recipes. This makes it an engaging and fulfilling book and it will satisfy the cravings of the heart, spirit, and body for many readers… This book is refreshingly original and Coltan J. Schoenike’s approach to relevant topics on life and baking are innovative and interesting.”

Where to Buy

Hive & Hollow

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Better World Books

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Indiebound

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