If you’ve ever seen any of Alison Roman’s chatty cooking videos on YouTube, you’ll know why we gravitate towards her simple, joyful, slightly messy style of cooking. Apparently, her idea of making dessert is very much the same. ‘Generally speaking, my recipe style and aesthetic could be described as “rustic”, “carefree”, “approachable”,’ she writes in her introduction to her latest book, Sweet Enough. ‘My desserts tend to follow suit, a little wild-looking and decidedly unkempt. Perfect they are not; I admit that I didn’t so much choose this aesthetic as this aesthetic chose me.
‘Conventional wisdom suggests that cooking is wild and free, encouraging creativity and improvisation. Desserts, on the other hand, should be tidy and precise. Prim, proper, controlled. Scientific, even. But as someone who would never be described…