What Baking Means to You

Hello bakers! I’m sharing a special type of put up at this time. It’s not a recipe, not a baking article, and it’s not an replace on life. It’s a brief put up the place we are able to all replicate on what baking means to us, both how insignificant or how profound.

I revealed at this time’s put up on my web site just a few years in the past, and am revisiting it. I acquired so many unimaginable responses, and realized simply how profound the artwork of baking might be.

If these phrases resonate with you, I encourage you to share what baking means to you.

What Baking Means to Me

Moreover being an apparent means to an finish (a baked good), the act of baking is a type of my self expression. I create what I wish to create, nevertheless little or magnificent that baked good could also be. A senseless rice krispie deal with or a tall towering marriage ceremony cake.

After I labored a 9-5 job in a company atmosphere, coming house and baking cupcakes (even from a field combine!) helped me loosen up and unwind. It merely “felt like me.” In a job the place I didn’t have a lot inventive freedom, baking really saved me fulfilled and energized.

And, to not point out, it’s a double whammy of awesomeness… baking makes me joyful and baked items make everybody joyful. Spreading pleasure is immensely highly effective.

I used to be capable of make a full time profession out of this ardour. 12 years later (!!!), baking nonetheless supplies the identical quantity of pleasure and inventive freedom. However on a extra critical notice, baking additionally helps handle my nervousness. A power worrier since my teen years, I discover the construction and focus that baking requires to be soothing. I’m accountable for the result (effectively, principally!) and that management is essential throughout occasions that my nervousness feels debilitating. Baking is my work, my “me time,” and, effectively, my medication.

I’m very grateful I’m capable of do it.

And the identical could also be true for you, too. It’s not nearly baking cookies, it’s in regards to the pleasure and calm that include it. What baking is to me could also be knitting, portray, studying, working, yoga, or music to another person. How profound {that a} passion, or a job, is usually a type of remedy.

So, what does baking imply to you?