New Home Baker Initiation Gifts

Eating raw cake mix.

You're the puff in my pastry!

'Are you made of sugar?'

A heart shaped cake

"I'm so proud - she's already learning her shapes."

"Tia Carmen, is it okay if my study group meets here tomorrow?"

"Oh boy! Mom made microchip cookies!"

"An untested recipe. An uncalibrated oven. Substituted ingredients. And yet, the cake...the cake is...magnificent!"

"I thought the cake came out awfully dense."

You're the icing on my cupcake!

Angel to lady: 'I'm the angel food cake angel. I bring you peace, hope and comfort food.'

I LOVE YOU IN ICING

Baking

"Look lively crew, lest we be dashed upon these scrumptious shores."

Child doing the washing up

"How are we on bread?"

'My mom bakes from scratch -- she's a full-service mom.'

I bake my own bread.

Scales

'If they rise they're scones. If not they're pancakes.'

'Just add eggs. That sounds easy.'

Baker

She found baking helped enormously.

I Bake. Deal with it.

'Living in a gingerbread house, ants are a constant problem.'

The Remote Olympics

"Do you want brownies or cookies or banana bread or apple pie or peanut brittle or chocolate muffins or carrot cake?"

Baker

Something beautiful comes out of a big mess.

Mum's Baking is best!

"When are you going to make the sort of bread my mother makes?"

To keep cool in the summer, Victor installed a whole-house flan.

Model Village/Realistic Model Village.

Wine-tasting Tour.

"I'm trying to make up my mind."