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.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” – Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost It’s also OK if you’re just really excited to eat whatever gooey, delicious thing comes out of the test kitchen next. There’s always another employee-owner at King Arthur who is right there with you. Many things just fall into your lap now. Don’t take a wait-and-see attitude, but get down to business! The challenge set for the bakers for the cake week showstopper was to make an animal from cake. They were permitted to use edible things other than cake (such as rice crispy treats) for some of the structural elements, but the main part of the animal had to be cake. Ultimately, we find joy in helping you make your baked goods just right so that you always smile from ear to ear whenever you pull something out of the oven.You don’t have to be a professional cake baker to enjoy these sweet cake sayings. Whether you’re a novice in the kitchen or you’ve been baking cakes for years, you’re sure to find something in this post to inspire you to keep baking those cakes you love. Cake is the Best! My comfort zone is behind (rather than in front of) the camera. I never thought I'd end up with my own video series ( Bake it Better with Kye), but my desire to deliver fresh baking inspiration, tips, and encouragement was enough to convince me to give it a try. Cooking or baking has become a common cure for stress or feeling down, but there might actually be some science to why small creative tasks might make people feel better. According to a new study, a little creativity each day can go a long way towards happiness and satisfaction in the bustle of daily life. What can cake teach you about life? That practice makes perfect, and if you try something once, it probably won’t be perfect, and you have to keep working on it if you want to be good at it.”(Nicole Byer)

Again, no real problems for the bakers with their first technical challenge. Some of the cakes were criticised for having a bulge / definition between the layers visible despite the cake being coated with ganache on the outside. (This can happen if you don’t fill you cake right to the edges of the layers). If we believe something to be the absolute truth, and if we cling to it, then we are no longer open. (Thich Nhat Hanh) You can tell the strength in a feeling by the sacrifices you are willing to make for it. (Chinese wisdom) Some baking quotes are somber, like a cake baked in the late hours of the night. Still others aren’t sad but are meant for people who prefer a day spent indoors, in the comfort of their home kitchen. Whichever group you fall into, enjoy these rainy day baking quotes meant for gloomy days.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. She discovered she could have her cake and eat it too. She just had to put on her prettiest apron and bake it. 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.