Baking Addiction
I have come to terms that it is an addiction but a healthy one. It is always my happy place to be now is baking. If I could have a whole pantry full of just different kinds of baking gadgets and ingredients it would be a dream come true. I do cook as well but I don't enjoy it as much. I just cook because someone has to make dinner and my boyfriend certainly isn't going to. I look forward to having a really nice oven and bakeware cookware in the near-ish future. My boyfriend wants to start building his house this year and we agreed on a gas range stove since its way better at cooking things evenly and beautifully. Id like to get into candy making too especially for holiday presents and what not. I need nicer cooking ware than what I have to do that and some more gadgets. I'm not like amazing at it and make like my own recipes but I try to do some spins on the recipes I use. I like to bake at least once a week, ideally id do it every day but a. we have no dish washer so clean up is a bitch b. too expensive and c. don't have THAT much time on my hand with a full time job and doing online schooling.
Either way I wish I would have appreciated baking more growing up. When I was a lot younger my mom would teach me but I wasn't as excited about it as I got older. Now when I go home I try to bake something with her every time. She knows so much from her mom that she continues to teach me and I wish my grandmother could have too but she lived in California so I only saw her about 3 times before she passed away. Thankfully I don't end up eating everything I bake. I either take them to other people to share or if I do make something to keep I try to make it on the healthier side or something that can last awhile so I don't have to eat it all at once. I am still hesitant making homemade pies filled with berries like raspberry pie to make the filling from scratch. I worry about ruining it.
For Christmas I made about 3 dozen sugar and peanut butter cookies for my co workers and friends. Put them in mason jars with some chocolate and wrote a little note for each one to make it personable. I try to bake something every Christmas for my friends co workers. They always seem to love it. Last year was mini loaves of different types of quick breads. Lemon Blueberry and Eggnog were a huge hit. and today I made lemon poppy seed muffins. boyfriends favorite. I use the recipe from Two Peas and their Pod. AMAZING easy recipe that I have used several times now.
I am certainly no pro at baking but I have gotten sooooo much better since I really got into it. Id like to thank the combination of my mother, pinterest, and sallysbakingaddiction that pursued me to really take an interest in baking.
Here are just a few things I have made in the past. To anyone out there who loves to bake keep it up and hit me up if you want, id love to chat about it. I don't really have any friends who are into it as much as I am. A lot of them do the cake or cupcake decorating thing. I am not so much into that. My artsy side is more with acrylics than frosting.
Either way I wish I would have appreciated baking more growing up. When I was a lot younger my mom would teach me but I wasn't as excited about it as I got older. Now when I go home I try to bake something with her every time. She knows so much from her mom that she continues to teach me and I wish my grandmother could have too but she lived in California so I only saw her about 3 times before she passed away. Thankfully I don't end up eating everything I bake. I either take them to other people to share or if I do make something to keep I try to make it on the healthier side or something that can last awhile so I don't have to eat it all at once. I am still hesitant making homemade pies filled with berries like raspberry pie to make the filling from scratch. I worry about ruining it.
For Christmas I made about 3 dozen sugar and peanut butter cookies for my co workers and friends. Put them in mason jars with some chocolate and wrote a little note for each one to make it personable. I try to bake something every Christmas for my friends co workers. They always seem to love it. Last year was mini loaves of different types of quick breads. Lemon Blueberry and Eggnog were a huge hit. and today I made lemon poppy seed muffins. boyfriends favorite. I use the recipe from Two Peas and their Pod. AMAZING easy recipe that I have used several times now.
I am certainly no pro at baking but I have gotten sooooo much better since I really got into it. Id like to thank the combination of my mother, pinterest, and sallysbakingaddiction that pursued me to really take an interest in baking.
Here are just a few things I have made in the past. To anyone out there who loves to bake keep it up and hit me up if you want, id love to chat about it. I don't really have any friends who are into it as much as I am. A lot of them do the cake or cupcake decorating thing. I am not so much into that. My artsy side is more with acrylics than frosting.
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