| tart --> | | | | difference. I have learned from very painful |
| 1. Good baking requires patience. If you try to rush it, | | | | experience that putting the ingredients in the wrong |
| you will end up with a mess. A good cake, pie, | | | | way can easily ruin a baking recipe. The baking |
| cookie, the list goes on and on, cannot be rushed. | | | | powder has to go in before you put it in the oven. |
| Things tend to turn out half-baked (yes, literally) or | | | | (Who knew?) |
| so badly that they are not edible. People tend to | | | | 4. It does not have to be complicated to taste good. |
| frown at you when serve them burnt cookies. (Hey, | | | | Some of the best baking recipes that my mom ever |
| at least I tried.) | | | | made were ones that had five ingredients or less. If |
| 2. You do not have to always follow the recipe. I | | | | you are like me and do not have the patience to |
| have started to learn to cook and bake by feel and | | | | squeeze a million tiny dots onto a cake in order to |
| taste more than by following a recipe. If you do not | | | | make pretty frosting, it is nice to know that I can |
| like one thing that is in the recipe but you do like | | | | make something that is simpler and still tastes good. |
| everything else that is in it, take out the thing you do | | | | (Anyone have a recipe for dipable (yes, I just made |
| not like. I tend to add more of things I like into a | | | | up that word) frosting? Lets skip that whole thing of |
| recipe (chocolate) and take out things I don't (not | | | | having to frost the cake entirely.) |
| chocolate). I have been known to add double the | | | | 5. Always mix in some love. I am convinced that this |
| amount of chocolate chips to a cookie recipe and | | | | is why store bought sweets never taste as good as |
| omit the nuts entirely. (Really, who needs all those | | | | homemade ones. Machines do not know how to |
| nuts getting in the way of a good chocolate chip | | | | inject this special ingredient. All baking recipes at the |
| cookie!) | | | | very minimum need at least one cup of love to be |
| 3. The devil is in the details. Little things like adding | | | | any good at all. |
| ingredients in the proper order can make all the | | | | |