Quotes About Baking

Weasel cookies.

Don't grumble," I said. "Or I'll bake you more cookies.

Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.

Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.

his attempts at baking being closer to brickmaking than bread.

I live in a cottage in Yorkshire, where I bake bread and refinish antiques and shock the neighbors with naked tai chi in the garden.

I put the guitar back in the case. I can't even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I want an end result there's a recipe for. I want to combine eggs and water and oil and chocolate and flour and sugar and vanilla and get something fulfilling.

Cake is merely a frosting delivery mechanism. Unfortunately,

Bake in a slow oven—" she continued. "Until the color and texture of grated charcoal," said Rush. "Garnish with nuts, bolts, and old washers, and serve one month later.

Jeanne's sisters thought nothing of themselves.... Helen stayed up late in Brookline, baking. Lemon squares, and brownies, pecan bars, apple cake, sandy almond cookies. Alone in her kitchen, she wrapped these offerings in waxed paper and froze them in tight-lipped containers.... Helen was the baker of the family. What she felt could not be purchased. She grieved from scratch.

If I ever reach the point in life where there are no more snipers, I might go crazy. Or bake. I could take up baking." "Liz took up baking," I reminded her. "Yeah, but I'd be better at it. I would totally rock baking.

Standard everyday cooking is relatively forgiving. Baking is rarely so. In fact, baked goods are a great deal like cars: You can change the wheel covers, put in new mats, and change out the stereo, but if you're going to mess around under the hood, you'd better know what you're doing or you may wind up taking the bus.

My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area.

The process of making a wedding cake is complex on its own, from designing, mis-en-place, baking, frosting, structuring, decorating, to delivering.

I bake a chocolate cake from scratch every week.

Cooking involves a deadline and hungry people and ingredients that expire in a week. It's stressful. Cooking happens on the stove and on the clock. Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.

My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake.

For reasons that aren't quite clear I derive a weird and almost inappropriate pleasure from making a cake that looks like a decomposing log. Essentially, that's what a Buche de Noel is supposed to look like, complete with meringue 'mushrooms' poking out of the chocolate buttercream 'bark.'

I love potato bread. It's so good.

My mom, she cooks the best pound cakes in the world.

The secret to having an epically beloved bakery is consistency.

I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.

My family, as you can probably guess, was more into Christmas cookies and not so much the fruitcake.

I think baking's far easier than cooking, and because of that, it's more approachable.