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Everyday Grand

Soulful Recipes for Celebrating Life’s Big and Small Moments

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Grandbaby Cakes

Modern Recipes, Vintage Charm, Soulful Memories

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About Everyday Grand

Over 80 NEW recipes that will celebrate your life’s big and small moments. From incredible breakfast, sensational soups, salads and delicious appetizers to the ultimate savory dinners and most epic desserts, my new cookbook’s recipes are the best you will ever taste!

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Jocelyn Delk Adams believes every day deserves to be celebrated, from seemingly mundane weekdays to exuberant weekends and holidays. Her approachable take on comfort food features Southern-steeped recipes that are jazzed-up, remixed classics, all sprinkled with the vibrant, colorful personality she’s best known for.

Each flavor-packed recipe suggests a reason to celebrate, a reminder that events big and small can have a moment of culinary gratitude. Try the Georgia Peach Salad with Candied Pecans and Cornbread Croutons on that perfect summer

day or the Mojito-Marinated Skirt Steak with Chimichurri for a backyard date night (BYO blanket and bubbly). Or enjoy a Southern Sunday supper of spicy Hot Sauce Chipotle-Fried Chicken and whip up the Turkey and Mustard Greens Enchiladas to deliver to your bestie “just because.” Don’t forget gooey Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies for a really good hair day (because yes, you deserve to celebrate this!).

Everyday Grand shows readers how to cultivate their inner joy through affirmations, thankfulness, and most important, ridiculously good food.

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What deserves to be celebrated?
In my world, anything and everything!

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“To say Jocelyn is one of my favorite food voices is an understatement. Her recipes are beyond delicious and gorgeous, and I’ve never made a dish of hers that I didn’t love and devour. Hands down one of my favorite cookbooks in recent memory!” —Ree Drummond
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“There isn’t a cookbook I am more excited about than Everyday Grand! The recipes are colorful, full of so much incredible flavor, and simple to make for the everyday home cook. I am so excited to continue to cook through it!” —Tieghan Gerard
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“Everyday Grand is like having a slice of sunshine on your bookshelf. It radiates joy, love, and the promise of good times for friends and family.” —Al Roker
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“Jocelyn can make anything taste grand. From her delectable desserts to her savory Southern dishes, I can’t wait to cook through all these amazing recipes with my own family.” —Tiffani Thiessen
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“Everyday Grand is worth your time in so many ways. This is a tasty invitation to thrive and dine with generations of Jocelyn’s family.” —Sunny Anderson
Katherine Schwarzenegger
“Jocelyn incorporates family into every meal, offering a fresh take on all the favorites you grew up with, including new, delicious additions!” —Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt
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“This cookbook highlights Jocelyn’s positivity, reminding us to celebrate moments both big and small. I can’t wait to make so many recipes, starting with Auntie’s Southern Baked Chicken!” —Gina Homolka
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“Filled with delicious, approachable recipes, this book exudes a sense of joy and celebration and includes Southern favorites you’ll be making over and over.” —John Kanell
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The Original Grandbaby Cakes Cookbook

As a child, Adams and her family would routinely embark on the ten-hour journey from their home in Chicago to Winona, Mississippi. There, she would watch her grandmother, affectionately nicknamed Big Mama, bake and develop delicious, melt-in-your-mouth desserts. From blooming tree-picked fruit to farm-raised eggs and fresh-churned butter, Big Mama used what was readily available to invent completely original treats. Adams treasured the moments when her mother, aunt, and Big Mama would bring her into the kitchen to let her dabble in the process as a rite of passage. Big Mama’s recipes became the fabric of their family heritage. Grandbaby Cakes is Adams’s love note to her family, thanking those who came before and passing on this touching tradition with 50 brilliant cakes.

“If this glorious book doesn’t make you want to drop everything you’re doing and go bake a cake right now, then I don’t know what will. Jocelyn’s spectacular cake creations are positively bursting with beauty, color, flavor, and fun. Make no mistake about it: this book will ignite the baking passion within you!”

#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks

“Jocelyn’s heart and soul shine bright on every page and will inspire you to gather with family and friends as much as possible.” 

Authors of Back in the Day Bakery Made with Love

“A nifty collection of pound cakes, cupcakes, layered cakes and other sweet treats—original creations and spins on traditional family recipes.”