Cake Mix: Learning to Love All Your Ingredients

Cake Mix: Learning to Love All Your Ingredients by Mikki Hernandez. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781736880203.

Cake Mix: Learning to Love All Your Ingredients is a picture book for children ages 5-8. The story features a young mixed-race girl named Remy, whose first encounter with the intrusive question, "What are you?" sends her on a journey towards self-acceptance. Feeling confused about where she belongs, Remy learns about ethnicity and what it means to be mixed by doing her favorite activity with her mother-baking a cake! Remy discovers being mixed is something to be proud of. When she returns to school, Remy shares with her classmates the importance and deliciousness of celebrating different backgrounds.