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Quotes About Baking

How do I like my eggs? In a cake!
~ Author Unknown
I like big bundts and I cannot lie.
~ Internet meme, c. 2011
Cupcake: party muffin
~ Internet meme
Don't ever let a recipe tell you how many chocolate chips to use. You measure that [$#*t] with your heart.
~ Internet meme
May 15 is Chocolate Chip Day, a day to celebrate the tiny morsels of chocolate that make any dessert even better.
~ TimeAndDate.com
Cookies are made of butter and love.
~ Norwegian proverb
I'd consider being a farmer. As long as I could live on the Pepperidge Farm. And raise Milanos.
~ Author Unknown
Ruth Graves Wakefield, inventor of the chocolate chip cookie — and the greatest hero in American history!
~ Internet meme
When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste.
~ Laiko Bahrs, unverified
Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love.
~ Mark McKinney
I'm thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.
~ Norm MacDonald
I'm a very keen baker; I pride myself on my cakes. I go along the classic sponge line, but I like to jazz it up: I've made some psychedelic birthday cakes.
~ Greg Rutherford
I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.
~ Anna Chancellor
I won a prize for 'best sponge cake' at the Clacton Festival 2005. Having said that, I was only up against three other cakes.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell
Any opportunity I get to melt butter, I continue on to the 'noisette' stage.
~ Sherry Yard
The standard model of particle physics says that the universe consists of a very small number of particles, 12, and a very small number of forces, four. If we're correct about those 12 particles and those four forces and understand how they interact, properly, we have the recipe for baking up a universe.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
People think if you win the 'Bake Off' you walk straight into a big book deal and all of this but it isn't like that. You've still got to work really, really hard - probably harder than before - to make the right connections, to tour with brands, to discuss opportunities and negotiations.
~ John Whaite
My daughters have become little judges. If I do produce a baked item, they tut at the soggy bottom and advise me to try harder next time.
~ Mel Giedroyc
A good 'Bake Off,' for me, is just about cakes and nice people - and that's a successful show.
~ Sue Perkins
I'm a really good cook. I bake a lot. I cook dinner most nights. I cook everything from Italian food to Mexican food. But if I'm going to some place and it's a potluck, I'm always the one to bring dessert!
~ Amanda Schull
The Key lime pie is very simple to make. First you line a 9-inch pie plate with a graham cracker crust. Then beat 6 egg yolks. Add I cup lime juice (even bottled lime juice will do), two 14-ounce cans sweetened condensed milk, and I tablespoon grated lime rind. Pour into the pie shell and freeze. Remove from freezer and spread with whipped cream. Let sit five minutes before serving.
~ Nora Ephron
cracker crust and pack it into a 9-inch pie pan. Then mix 12 ounces cream cheese with 4 well-beaten eggs, 1 cup sugar and a teaspoon vanilla. Pour into the pie shell and bake 45 minutes at 350°. Remove and cool 15 minutes. Then spread gently with 2 cups sour cream mixed with ½ cup sugar and bake 10 minutes more. Cool and refrigerate several hours before serving.
~ Nora Ephron
pudding I've ever eaten. It tastes like caramelized mush. Cream 2 cups sugar with 2 sticks butter. Then add 2 ½ cups milk, one 13-ounce can evaporated milk, 2 tablespoons nutmeg, 2 tablespoons vanilla, a loaf of wet bread in chunks and pieces (any bread will do, the worse the better) and 1 cup raisins. Stir to mix. Pour into a deep greased casserole and bake at 350° for 2 hours, stirring after the first hour. Serve warm with hard sauce.
~ Nora Ephron
I fed a dragon a fruit tart.
~ Nora Roberts