Dessert Can Save the World

Stories, Secrets, and Recipes for a Stubbornly Joyful Existence

By: Christina Tosi

Narrated by: Christina Tosi

The James Beard Award–winning founder of Milk Bar and host of Bake Squad shares her personal stories and wisdom for igniting passion, following your joy, and creating a satisfying life.

Dessert connects us heart-to-heart like almost nothing else. It brings us together in good times and bad, celebration and solace. It marks big and small milestones and creates memories of comfort and joy. And Christina Tosi, the founder and CEO of Milk Bar, believes it can save the world.

Does the combination of sugar, flour, and butter have some magical ability to fix all the craziness of our modern existence? Of course not. Tosi knows a cookie is just a cookie—but bringing the joy a cookie holds into every area of your life most definitely can. The spirit of dessert—the relentless, unflinching commitment to finding or creating joy even when joy feels hard to come by—is what can save us. And then we, in turn, can each save the world.

Tosi shares the wisdom she learned growing up surrounded by strong women who showed her baking’s ability to harness love and create connection, as well as personal stories about succeeding in the highly competitive food world by unapologetically being her true self. Studded with personal and unorthodox recipes, Dessert Can Save the World reveals the secret ingredients for transforming our outlooks, our relationships, our work, and our entire collective existence into something boldly optimistic and stubbornly joyful.

*Includes a downloadable PDF of recipes from the book

❤️

Magic. Affirming. Life-changing. Grateful for Tosi and this book! Love that she narrates it too! Makes it even more special.

Inspirational

Her life was such an adventure! She stayed true to herself no matter what people said or did. So many applicable lessons

I needed this

I’m so glad Christina Tosi voiced the book herself. She truly connected and gave me hope about raising my consciousness to a higher level after the many challenging experiences of the past few years. Baking is my happy place and have had to give it up for a time because of illness and downsizing in retirement. She reminded me that there is so much more to life now that I’m well and settled into a new home with the joy of being surrounded by my grandkids who love my baking. Thank you, Christina! From the bottom of my dessert-loving heart.

Great energy and funny stories recounted.

Love Christina Tosi’s spirit and can-do spirit.
It’s uplifting and relatable.
For anyone in a good place in life and wants a nice pick me up with dessert stories and recipes.
Can feel overtly positive for some but a great accompaniment on walks.

Great Book

While sharing how Christina Tosi created her ideas behind the Milk Bar, how she got started, her family background and recipes, Tosi also shares how to make the world a better place. How to make the most out of your situation, the good, the bad and the ugly. How to treat others and yourself. This is a positive and uplifting book.