Sweet
Book/Editorial
Book/Editorial
Book/Editorial
Book/Editorial
Book/Editorial
Book/Editorial
Book/Editorial
Book/Editorial
Book/Editorial
Designer(s)
Katie Bensley-Marshall
Duration
4 Weeks
Recognitions
Sweet is a cross between a dessert cookbook and a colouring book. Each recipe has a full-page black and white line drawing of the dessert that is being made. The idea behind this is that the user can colour in the picture while waiting for their dessert to bake or while they are enjoying their sweet treat. Sweet is intended for both adults and children, and can be especially helpful for keeping children preoccupied during the more boring or dangerous parts of the process.
By allowing the user to colour in each treat as they make it, the book ends up being unique to each person or family who uses it. Children can express their creativity while also documenting the unique memories and nostalgia that many of us associate with baking. There are no limits on how the images are coloured in, although a colour reference for every dessert is provided in each section’s opening spread.
Most children love to bake with their parents, so why not make that experience even more exciting? Incorporating colouring into this process allows the adult to have a good distraction when they need to do some of the steps that aren’t as exciting or child-friendly, while simultaneously allowing the child to create long-lasting documentation of the experience. Even if you’re an adult with no children, many people have very fond memories from their childhood of both baking and colouring books, which makes Sweet an exciting nostalgic experience.
