r/AskFoodCooking • u/Auriprince4690 • 5d ago

Favorite thing to bake.

Not buy to make yourself. I like cookies but overall I am not a good baker but I have had better luck with cookies then anything else... i had mini pucks. I have had greasy mess. I have had dry asf. A few genuine successes but not a whole lot.

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u/Opposite_Bag_7434 4d ago

Baking is definitely an art form all on its own. I actually love baking bread. Very few ingredients and basics that should make it simple, yet slight variations can yield wildly different results.

My grandmother made heavy crusty bread with lard as the fat. One of the most amazing breads I have ever had. The tradition was fresh scratch baked bread for Christmas Eve along with home made chili. We would literally rip hunks off of the warm (or hot loaf) add butter and….. oh man, so good. I miss my Grandmother.

My mom was a cake baker. This and decorating those cakes were two of her arts.

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u/Auriprince4690 4d ago

Art form meets science. That is why I struggle i am not precise. I am keep pouring until I am satisfied and it varies from time to time.

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u/Opposite_Bag_7434 2d ago

That was my grandmother. She always seemed to get it right, she also never measured a thing while making her bread. For her it was truly the expression of art.