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Quotes About Baking

One time I bought a pound cake that weighed 14 ounces.
~ Unknown
Master of Cake?
~ Unknown
soufflés can be very tricky
~ Tracie Peterson
The smell of baking bread wafts up to my cell and reminds me of the days I walked freely in the cafes. This tears me apart more than my fear of death or the solitude in which I now find myself.
~ Paulo Coelho
Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.
~ David Sedaris
When art calls, you have to follow it. It doesn't happen often, so take the opportunity when it strikes. In all reality, what I do is art. I do create fabulous pieces of decorative baked goods.
~ Unknown
pudding with a cinnamon crust for dessert.
~ David Baldacci
Sorry if I interrupted your baking." Bond waved this off. "I was already done. The loaf's out of the oven now. It's one of my few pleasures left. I bake at all hours of the day and night.
~ David Baldacci
Setback is like Grandma's muffins.
~ Claire Weekes
I always say a little prayer when I put cakes in the oven," remarked Eve, as she stopped to kiss Rose good-bye. "What do you say?" "I say, 'Please, God, don't let me forget I've put that cake in the oven.
~ Hilary McKay
Jane saw that Madeline's feelings about Jane's baking were similar to Jane's feelings about Madeline's accessories: confused admiration for an exotic behavior.
~ Liane Moriarty
You can still bake a perfectly good cake while losing your mind.
~ Liane Moriarty
Debbie served them home-made Anzac biscuits.
~ Liane Moriarty
Im all about my cake. Im tryna marry Betty Crocker.
~ Lil Wayne
The images swirled through her. She needed to bake. Cake. A layered chocolate cake. With vanilla buttercream frosting. The images were as clear as four-color photos from a coffee table book on baking. She could taste the vanilla, butter, and cream whipped into a sugar frosting as if she had spooned it into her mouth. The chocolate smelled so real that a chill of awareness ran along her skin, pooling in her fingertips. She itched to bake.
~ Linda Francis Lee
The German chocolate cake was easy. So was the vanilla buttercream. But the strawberry shortcake gave me fits. Turns out, the final fix came when I baked a fresh strawberry in the middle of a vanilla sour-cream batter instead of strawberry batter with chunks of strawberries.
~ Linda Francis Lee
Bread deals with living things, with giving life, with growth, with the seed, the grain that nurtures. It is not coincidence that we say bread is the staff of life.
~ Lionel Poilane
I love to bake, so I made vanilla bean and blueberry muffins for sick hospital children. Just kidding! All of that is true except the sick children part.
~ Sloane Crosley
A chocolate cake can include almond praline or blackberry, and a vanilla one can have cinnamon, cappuccino, or pistachio... Each is distinctive, and I bake only to order.
~ Ron Ben-Israel
Don't expect too much from yourself. What I like to do when I have a day off is make various cookie doughs and freeze them. Then I always have that on hand if I need it.
~ Giada De Laurentiis
I may demonstrate the various stages of making a loaf on stage, but they don't end up in the final product I lift out of the oven at the end. If it were real food preparation, I'd wear a hair net, a hat, and rubber gloves - not a pretty sight.
~ Paul Hollywood
Only advanced bakers should endeavor to adapt non-vegan recipes to be vegan, or gluten-full recipes to be gluten-free. There are all sorts of tips and tricks when it comes to subbing vegan ingredients for eggs and dairy, but it's tricky to say the least.
~ Claire Saffitz
My mom used to bake so many vegan goods when I was a kid, and I was always so hyped.
~ Nyjah Huston
I use a cake tester to check the doneness of everything from fish to vegetables. The point on it is duller than a paring knife, so you get a much better feel for how finished something actually is. Oh yeah, and when it comes to cake, a toothpick is the move. The rougher surface is more likely to show you what the crumb inside looks like.
~ Chris Morocco