Bake Sum Cookbook Has 75 Recipes From the Alameda Bakery
Owner Joyce Tang's first cookbook lands with 75 recipes, five months after Bake Sum opened its Alameda Marketplace location.
By The Alameda Pulse
Joyce Tang, the owner of Bake Sum inside Alameda Marketplace on Park Street, put out her first cookbook on September 1. It's called "Bake Sum: Asian American Pastries, Breads, and Other Treats from the Beloved Bakery," and it's got 75 recipes for $35.
- Where: Bake Sum's Alameda shop is at 1650 Park St., inside Alameda Marketplace, open Friday through Sunday starting at 9 a.m. until they sell out.
- When: The book came out September 1, 2026, from Hardie Grant North America.
- Cost: $35, hardcover, 75 recipes and drinks.
- Who's behind it: Tang wrote it with Bay Area food writer Soleil Ho, with photography by Aya Brackett.
- What's next: The book is on sale now wherever books are sold, alongside the pastries at both Bake Sum locations.
What is Bake Sum known for?
Bake Sum built its name mashing up Asian ingredients with French pastry technique. Think an Okonomiyaki Danish, a Bibimbap Danish, and the Croissubi, a laminated riff on Hawaii's Spam musubi that the New York Times named one of the best dishes eaten anywhere in the country in 2024. Tang calls the whole project "a 365-day-a-year tribute to Asian Americana," and that's exactly what the cookbook tries to bottle, as Edible East Bay reported when the book landed: her Grand Avenue bakery in Oakland's flavors and techniques, written down so home bakers can try them too.
Where can Alameda residents find the book, and why the Alameda connection?
You don't have to leave the island to get it. Bake Sum opened its second location inside Alameda Marketplace this year, and that's where a lot of Alameda readers will have first tasted the recipes now sitting in the book. The cookbook isn't just a recipe collection either. It carries an essay from Soleil Ho and a recipe for Heather Ho's Almond Cake, passed to Tang by her culinary school instructor. Heather Ho was a pastry chef who died in the September 11, 2001 attacks while working at Windows on the World, and Tang included the recipe as a tribute.
What this means for Alameda
For a bakery that started as one shop with hour-long weekend lines, a national cookbook release is a real milestone, and it puts Alameda's newest pastry counter in the same conversation as Tang's original Oakland spot. If you've been curious what makes people wait outside Alameda Marketplace on a Saturday morning, the book is one way to find out, recipe by recipe, without the line.
