Southern Sugar

Let Chef Belinda enhance your sweets menu with her warm hospitality, cooking tips, and approximately 100 flavor-packed recipes for decadent southern desserts and treats.

There is a little bit of Southerner in all of us! You dont have to be from the South to embrace the foodespecially the sweets. There is just something about Southern treats that appeal to the hearts, souls, and stomachs of everyone! Just think of decadent, sweet delights filled with lots of sugar, butter, nuts, and fruit, or dripping with chocolate, caramel, whipped cream, and yes, even bourbon! LetSouthern Sugartransport you back to your Southern roots by reintroducing you to some of the favorites that you may have forgotten and fresh takes on Southern classics. From modest afternoon Tea Cakes and Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies to cant push back from the table Coconut Sweet Potato Pie and Mississippi Mud Cake.

With 100 satisfying recipes, the cookbook is divided up into chapters that focus on cakes, pound cakes, cheesecakes, pies, ice creams, candies, cookies and brownies, and cocktails and mocktails.

Belinda Smith-Sullivanis a chef, food writer, spice blends entrepreneur, and a commercially rated pilot. She has a culinary arts degree from Johnson & Wales University, and writes a monthly column forSouth Carolina Living. She also is featured onSouth Carolina Livingswebsite with monthly how-to videos. Smith-Sullivan is an active member of the Southern Foodways Alliance, International Association of Culinary Professionals, American Culinary Federation, and Les Dames dEscoffier. She lives in Trenton, SC, in the heart of South Carolinas peach country.

Kate Blohmis a photographer and videographer and her work has been featured inForbes,Elle Dcor,Architectural Digest,Atlanta Magazine, and many other publications. She is also the on-staff photographer at La Fortezza, a series of creative workshops hosted in Fivizzano, Italy. She lives in Charleston, SC.