Intro!

 I can pretty much describe my life in 3 words: Cooking, exercising, and driving. Yeah, I've got my family and my boyfriend, but those are the things I probably do the most often. I will usually cook 3 meals a day and also provide snacks. I exercise when I'm home alone (oh and blog too). And I'm always driving around running errands. So I guess you could say I'm pretty average. Oh except I love to bake. I'll attempt to make any kind of delicious oven sweet. I started off with basics - cakes, cupcakes, and cookies back in high school. High school for me was also the start of some cake decorating - the pictures you see here are from high school (I'm 21 now). I've slowly expanded into bread and also into specialty cakes. I would love an opportunity to work in a bakery - my dream! But alas, since I don't I'm keeping my baking skills in my own kitchen, where I can be experimental and try new things and have my boyfriend and family be my taste testers. In the pictures here I have a chocolate strawberry cake for my mother's birthday, one of my favorite treats called a gold bar. I used to get them in elementary school and it was almost like a sign that Spring was here, school was almost over, and the pool was almost open! I'm also showing here my "homemade samoas". To me, nothing can trump a real Samoa from a girl scout. These were still pretty tasty though, and with the right ingredients can be amazing. The other picture is of sunflower cupcakes! They are all hand decorated by me, and again this was something I did in high school! I'm going to be doing a lot more decorating and baking now to get a lot more practice, and of course that means sharing my techniques, recipes and everything else!