New Home Baker Initiation Gifts

Eating raw cake mix.

'Are you made of sugar?'

You're the puff in my pastry!

A heart shaped cake

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

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

"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

"How are we on bread?"

I bake my own bread.

"I couldn't have made my family recipe raisin date nut cake with it's secret ingredient without Jimmy's help."

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

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

Child doing the washing up

Scales

'Just add eggs. That sounds easy.'

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

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

Baker

The Remote Olympics

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

She found baking helped enormously.

Baker

I Bake. Deal with it.

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

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

Mum's Baking is best!

Something beautiful comes out of a big mess.

Wine-tasting Tour.

Model Village/Realistic Model Village.