December (Cook)Book Club Cookie Swap! Featuring 108 Asian Cookies by Kat Lieu

For December, we're so excited to switch up our regular programming a cookbook club! With the holidays approaching, we'll be doing a community cookie swap from recipes using 108 Asian Cookies: Not-to-Sweet-Treats from a Third-Culture Kitchen by Kat Lieu. We are SO excited to celebrate all these beautiful recipes that celebrate Asian flavors and techniques, and see them come to life and nourish the YPB community.

Please bring a set of cookies from the cookbook or one of your own cookie recipes from a Third-Culture Kitchen, and one drink minimum purchase at Boyfriend Co-op per person (both their cafe and bar will be open!).

Tickets for the event are $3 and include a raffle ticket for a YPB bundle and packing supplies to take cookies home!

About Yellow Peril Books' Book Club

We're so excited to welcome you to our ongoing community book club hosted around Brooklyn! Each month, we host an in person book club at a local AAPI owned business in Brooklyn. We started this book club with a few goals in mind

• Spotlight some of our favorite AAPI owned businesses, and ensure ticket revenues are invested in supporting these amazing gems. For most events, all ticket proceeds go towards the hosting business. If you'd like to donate to YPB to support our programming efforts, please donate here. 

• Feature different Asian and Asian American authors and their works

• Bring our community together in person to facilitate deeper conversation and connection

Book Club Rules

• You commit to treating everyone with respect and care

• Stay home if you feel sick!

If you would like to attend but the ticket cost is prohibitive, please reach out to contact@yellowperilbooks.com and we will try to find a solution! We never want lack of funds to be a barrier to entry.

About 108 Asian Cookies: Not-to-Sweet-Treats from a Third-Culture Kitchen by Kat Lieu

From the IACP award winner and bestselling cookbook author comes a first-of-its-kind collection of irresistible cookie recipes inspired by Asian flavors and techniques to excite home bakers.

Growing up as a Canadian-born Vietnamese Chinese American, Kat Lieu sought comfort in the flavors of her youth, like taro and black sesame. But she struggled to find a home for herself as a third-culture baker in American bakeries, online, or in cookbooks. In the auspiciously titled 108 Asian Cookies, Lieu honors the varied and rich tapestry of Asian cultures and ingredients that inspired these recipes. And along with members from Subtle Asian Baking, the online baking group she founded, are a diverse array of original and member-submitted drool-worthy recipes for cookies and bakes incorporating ingredients from the diaspora, including gochujang, ube, miso, fish sauce, sambal, tahini, matcha, and MSG stirred into each batter and dough.

Bakers will learn how to whip up both classics and entirely new desserts, such as:

• Spicy chai cookies

• Amaretti cookies with pandan and pistachios

• Taiwanese snowflake crisps

• Milk and cashew burfi

• Salted egg yolk corn flake haystacks

• Mochi brownies

• Matcha and wasabi drop cookies

• And even instant ramen and pho cookies!

At many Asian tables, "not too sweet" is the highest compliment one can give—so whether these recipes are comfortingly familiar or new discoveries, 108 Asian Cookies will surely delight even the most discerning "not too sweet" kitchens for years to come.

About the Author

Kat Lieu is an author, food writer, recipe developer, content creator, and the visionary behind Subtle Asian Baking, the largest global online group that focuses on spreading the love and joy of Asian baking and fundraising for AA and NHPI communities. She lives in Renton, WA. When she’s not writing, Lieu plays video games with her family until carpal tunnel syndrome sets in.