Bake Your Way To Happiness: Recipes and Strategies to Nourish and Heal

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Little weight fluctuations announce themselves. Better switch from wine and chocolate to tea and fruit. Case in point: our annual cupcake contest, where the winner receives a trophy (complete with a cupcake on top), a sash, and a lot of well-earned bragging rights. For the technical challenge on this year’s cake week, we were promised a timeless classic that many of us would have enjoyed at some point in our lives. My first thought was of the chocolate hedgehog cake that most of us have surely blown out the candles on at some point during our childhood? I love watching programs about food. I always think, ‘When I’m old, I’ll take up baking.’” – Julia Davis

Over the years, I’ve stumbled across a ton of cake-themed sayings and quotes about cake. Many have ended up on t-shirts or dish towels. But that wasn’t good enough for me. I wanted to create a post filled to overflowing with shareable cake quotes that cake bakers would enjoy.

Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification.” – Jenna Blum Rainy Day Baking Quotes Making new friends by connecting over a shared passion is a joyful endeavor. At King Arthur, there's no shame in being a “bread head” or a “flour nerd” (affectionate terms for those who are enthusiastic about the intricacies of baking).

To the cynical, such activities represented self-deception and false consciousness: people used to knit clothes because they couldn’t afford to buy them, not as some kind of folksy hobby. The knitters, by and large, seemed to recognise that. The activity was simultaneously a knowing re-creation of something that might never have quite existed, and a sincerely enjoyed, personally enriching, everyday act of creativity. This is the spirit that Love Productions has so successfully mined – the way in which these small daily acts, if you only looked at them afresh, might become extraordinary. They have followed the success of Bake Off with The Great British Sewing Bee and, coming this autumn to BBC2, The Great British Pottery Throwdown. The study, published in the Journal of Positive Psychology, suggests that people who frequently take a turn at small, creative projects report feeling more relaxed and happier in their everyday lives. The researchers followed 658 people for about two weeks, and found that doing small, everyday things like cooking and baking made the group feel more enthusiastic about their pursuits the next day, Daisy Meager reports for Munchies. As I have said before, I love how original and fun this series is. Ms. Cooper has crafted such a clever and imaginative teen/YA fantasy story- with magic, family, humour, recipes, a sprinkle of drama, teen life, adventure, emotion, heart and soul. Oh, and recipes, did I mention yummy recipes?

Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely..” – Regina Brett This book has Cat Anderson as the nice person but even a nice person has someone whom they hate right! Cat HATEs Nate and if it's not the understatement of the century I don't know what is! These loathsome pair have hated each other from DAY 1,but when fate throws each other in the same path again with different circumstances they both make a wish that changes both of their lives FOREVER! Nice memories are like chocolate: you can’t survive on them alone, as they aren’t very filling, but they make life sweeter.” – Janine Weger Ultimately you need to find your ingredients to bake your own happiness cake, one filled with true satisfaction and contentment.