Quotes About Baking

I like to do special things for people. Any time someone has a birthday, I make them a really special cake that they all seem to love - it's a Coca-Cola cake.

How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue...and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?

Our hair is as much as 14 percent L-cysteine, an amino acid commonly used to make meat flavorings and to elasticize dough in commercial baking. How commonly? Enough to merit debate among scholars of Jewish dietary law, or kashrut. "Human hair, while not particularly appetizing, is Kosher

sweet orange Jaune Flammes, which are just the right size to slice in half, sprinkle with salt and thyme, and bake for several hours until they resemble cow flops (the recipe says "shoes," if you prefer).

Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.

I love being in the moment. I love my family. I love chocolate. I love baking.

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

the strudel on

Her bun was baking, but her bloody heart was breaking.

Time to make the doughnuts.

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.

If I'm peckish and I want something sweet and quick, I make a batch of scones, because they're easy and reliable.

Kneading dough is as simple as pushing the dough away from you with the heel of your palm, folding it over itself with your fingers, and pulling it back. This repeated push-pull cross-knits the protein strands, developing a strong gluten net.

When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time.

I do really good banana bread. And I make a chocolate cake with fudge icing that's bloody delicious.

I've had many baking disasters but whatever it is, I'll cover it with icing and sprinkles and say a child has made it.

I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing.

When my parents arrived with a few trunks, a few dollars, and one kid -- me -- the bakery opportunity proved to be only half-baked. I'm glad. Otherwise, I might have been a baker and this might have been a cookbook.

pensaba que la higiene era, en una panadería, «más importante que la sal».

Over the past week Pearl had taught Sugar how to bake, and Sugar showed Pearl, with the help of a large ripe cucumber, the technique of giving hand and giving head. Pearl wriggled her nose in disgust and shook her finger at her in reproach, but her eyes never left the cucumber. Sugar saw that Pearl had finally allowed curiosity and possibility to couple.

Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.

I made a mental note that if I ever needed help from a man I would make him a pie.

and remember: There's no crying in pie baking. -The Bake-Off

Scales aren't just for all the would-be pastry wizards out there, either. They're a necessary tool for any serious cook as well, especially for determining ratios or servings.