Baking desserts?

[wishesuponastar]

I'm always in awe when I walk in a bakery. So many choices there and everything looks so perfect.

 

[mmouse37]

We are a family of bakers....my mom always baked homemade goods while growing up and all my sisters (there are five of us) all bake often.

We all have our specialties but all bake at least once or twice a week. I have pics from our Christmas holiday and it looks like a bakery on the counter!!!

I just finished baking a banana bread as I hate throwing out over ripe bananas and the other day baked some oatmeal cookies. Love to bake but have to limit somewhat as the kids have moved out and I'd eat everything!!! Sent the oatmeal cookies to Nashville to our DD who lives there and often bring what I bake to work.

Much prefer to bake than cook.

MJ

 

[apirateslifeforme]

I love to bake, but since it's only DH and I in the house, I usually leave it for special occasions when the whole family will partake. I do make a cake of some sort for DH's birthday and our anniversary. For our first anniversary - we'd lost our frozen wedding cake due to snowstorm/week-long power outage - I made a red velvet from scratch. For DH's birthday this year, I made a cherry cola cake. For our 2nd anniversary, I made one of his favorites, devil's food with peanut butter frosting (and decorated it with peanut butter chips).

I like to make cupcakes for my nieces' birthdays; their favorites so far have been tie-dye and Strawberry Surprise (strawberry cake with jam in the middle). I want to try root beer cupcakes next. With my mom's help, I usually make 3 kinds of cookies and some other treats for Christmas. And just two weeks ago, I made my first-ever cheesecake, a Snickerdoodle cheesecake, that made my mother proclaim that I was now in charge of cheesecakes

Oh, and although it's from a mix, I like to make the beer bread from Tastefully Simple. I like to try different beers and sodas in them. The most recent was the multigrain beer bread made with cherry chocolate bock beer. Another hit was when I used vanilla cream soda and mixed cinnamon and sugar into the melted butter on top.