Quotes About Baking

I baked the coffee cake recipe from 'The Joy of Cooking' over and over again when I was a kid.

If I'm doing a pavlova, for example, I need a recipe as I can't remember it well.

Generally, if you're a baker who's still learning the ropes, substitutions can be risky. It's always best to make a recipe the first time as written, and only after that initial success should you make substitutions.

In some ways, chocolate chip cookie recipes are my favorite algorithms. You put a bunch of bad-for-you stuff in a bowl and get a delicious result.

I think sharing recipes is such an important part of baking and the baking world.

Lemon curd is a basic custard, meaning it's thickened by eggs. Although many curd recipes call for just yolks, I prefer to use a combination of whole eggs and yolks to add a bit of lightness.

I would definitely recommend getting a decent electric mixer. A good quality non-stick baking mat is also essential for creating those impressive desserts.

Mrs. Wood was indeed making pies. She was taking the third pie out of the oven. When she looked up and saw

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

Women today are wanting to work in the workforce but also come home and learn to bake cupcakes, to do calligraphy, to knit a blanket for their baby, to 3-D print something.

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?

Baking is a matter of precision and timing, but I just make things up as I go.

I first met my husband on the day we got married, when I was 20. I moved to be with him in Leeds, 165 miles from Luton. The kitchen was absolutely tiny. But I got my first hand-held mixer and first set of scales and first blue cake tin from Tesco and that was very exciting.

You don't have to love cooking to cook, but you have to do more than love baking to bake. You have to bake out of love.

It's really fun to have a convection oven, even it if it's a little convection toaster oven. It really changes the way you bake.

I don't see how sugar could make that cornbread any sweeter than the prints of your hands already have.

Can this really call itself a cake when its main ingredients are cheese and carrots?

Q: Why did the cookie go to the hospital? A: It felt crummy.

here is a space again, the scone rising to the tick of two clocks. And here is love

We knew we loved making cookies and every time we did, we made people happy. That was our business plan.

I try a different cookie recipe every time I bake.

All is flux, nothing stays still, as Heraclitus said. By the time I wrote this, everything has changed in the universe; everything but the taste of the cakes baked at home!

My grandma is very old, and she doesn't remember things a lot, but she bakes the most delicious cookies. When I was very little, we had my mom's mom, who always had candy, and my dad's mom,who always had cookies. My mom told me that when I was little, I called them Candy Grandma and Cookies Grandma. I also called pizza crust pizza bones. I don't know why I'm telling you this.

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.