I love baking, it’s the most calming thing for me. It’s therapeutic, it makes the house smell good, and I get to take the goods to my friends.” – Lily Collins A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it’s almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies.” – Linda Sunshine

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.” – Jim Davis Life is a cake and love is the icing on top of it. Without love, it becomes difficult to swallow life.”Mehek Bassi)

I also really liked getting to spend a bit more time with Maurice, and hear his story. It's great that this series brings together several generations of family members who share their ideas, experiences and baked goods with each other. A lot of us turn to baking when we're feeling low,” Melanie Denyer, the founder of the Depressed Cake Shop, a bakery designed to draw awareness to mental health conditions, tells Dawood. “Some of us even started baking because they were ill and needed something simple as a focus. And there is genuinely something very therapeutic about baking.” Why are you holding on to an old love when you have long known what you need for your personal happiness?

Cakes are like books. There are news ones you want to read and old ones you want to re-read.” (Ellen Rose) Quintessentially British though it may appear, Bake Off is also a successful export. Kate Phillips, whose team at BBC Worldwide has sold Bake Off into 21 territories, told me that she calls it a “sweet-spot” format: its essentials are extremely simple – a tent, a presenter or two, a couple of judges, some amateur bakers – which means local versions can be made very cheaply by “broadcasters desperate to fill their schedules”. Those who buy rights to the programme abroad also get the secrets of the recipe – the “format bible”. So it is that the planet is sprinkled with Bake Off’s international cousins, each with its recognisable elements and local variants. (The BBC makes a modest fee from each sale, but it is Love, as the programme-maker, that reaps most of the cash.) Devonshire splits. No, me either. Soft, light, enriched dough buns split and filled with jam and cream. Since you asked.

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I think sharing recipes is such an important part of baking and the baking world.” – Christina Tosi Many happy childhood memories begin in the kitchen, baking and decorating birthday cakes. It’s one of the sweetest parts of childhood.” – Deanna F. Cook Bake Off creates a fairytale landscape of tottering choux towers, cheesecake tiers, lady fingers, sponges and macarons and frangipanes. Photograph: Jill Mead for the Guardian Our adventures all started in Book One when we met Cat Anderson for the first time and saw how her life was turned upside down after she discovered baking, and found out exactly what her baking could do. It took her a while to get a handle on her baking 'skills' which may have caused a little chaos in the process. But now things are going smoothly and she has everything under control.... or does she? Stay tuned for a surprise or two, because things are about to get quite interesting. If you are going to be using chocolate ganache to fill and coat a cake, it ideally needs to be the consistency of room temperature peanut butter before you work with it.

Margot Robbie joins MichelEvery English village seems to have a particular day when some local tradition is celebrated – and the celebratory food is often pie.” – Janet Clarkson, Pie: A Global History Technically, if you don’t cut the cake and just eat the whole thing with a fork, you are still only eating one piece. In any other context, ‘icing’ is a great and exciting word: The proverbial icing on the cake, for instance, is a bonus — a wonderful thing on top of another wonderful thing.”(Steve Rushin) I baked the coffee cake recipe from The Joy of Cooking over and over again when I was a kid.” – Alex Guarnaschelli Short Baking Quotes Her home’s other recurring theme, besides the baking, is the Japanese animation, My Neighbour Totoro, with illustrations of the giant grey-furred woodland sprite everywhere. They also remind her of Nabil. “I thought he reminded you of a bee?” I say. “He reminds me of a lot of cute things,” she says.