The BEST Tips To Becoming A Better Baker

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Are you longing to become a better baker? I’ve been baking my heart out for six years and I’ve learned SO much along the way. The tips that I’m about to share with you are all things that I wish I had learned as soon as I’d started; it would have saved me alot of time, energy, and wasted cake. But I’m not complaining, all that practice lead me to where I am now; I’m just a girl who LOVES to bake and wants to share that love with you. So keep reading to learn my tips on how YOU can become a better baker!

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How I Learned To Bake…

If you don’t know me personally or have never checked out my About Me page, then you probably don’t know this: I’m actually not a 100% self taught baker. In fact, I spent the first 19 years of my life far, far away from the kitchen. My only cooking skill was making a grilled cheese sandwich and my only baking skill was opening a box of funfetti cupcake mix and then decorating the cupcakes by scraping pre-made storebought frosting onto the said cupcakes with a knife!

Wow. That’s slightly embarrassing, but we all start somewhere, right? It wasn’t until my third year of college when my dorm room had a kitchen in it. With no more cafeteria meals on the horizon for me I had to start fending for myself–so of course I took to Pinterest and truly just fell in love with food and the art of food, especially BAKING.

With an itch to create edible beauty with my hands, I did one year of culinary school. Yep! I got a certificate and everything. I learned alot, and my culinary education was quite rounded as it covered cooking, baking, culinary mathematics, and business, so unfortunately my main focus was never baking.

But I did however learn the fundamentals of baking, which is the most important thing one could ever learn. If your cake doesn’t have a strong foundation, or its ingredient components are all outta whack, then what’s the point in spending hours trying to decorate it?

Banana Cupcakes With Cream Cheese Frosting

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Here is the recipe for deliciously moist Banana Cupcakes topped with velvety smooth Cream Cheese Frosting. And the best part is that these cupcakes can be decorated with a topping of YOUR choice! Whether you choose a fancy sprinkle medley, dark chocolate chunks, chopped walnuts, banana slices, or mini semi-sweet chocolate chips, you’ll love these cupcakes more and more with every bite! I am just so excited to be sharing this recipe with you guys–it’s SO good.

Oh How We Change…

It’s funny how much we as individuals can change over time; our demeanors, interests, and the things that we value can gradually transform without us even realizing it. The past ten years of my life is proof of this. I used to long to live in a little apartment in a big city, and now all I want is that small-town life. Living cozy in a house with a big yard surrounded by family and a supportive community.

Career-wise I went from wanting to be a journalist to a high school guidance counsellor, to a baker, to being a girl who now is smitten with food blogging and food photography. (Technically I guess the writing part has always stayed with me).

When I was in middle school day-dreaming about my future husband I was convinced he’d have blonde hair and blue eyes–but if you look at my husband now, it’s obvious that my attraction turned towards dark hair and dark eyes. What can I say? 😉

I went from loathing any time spent in the kitchen to growing a love for recipe developing and testing. Now the kitchen is my favourite place to decorate, organize, and create in!

Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

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These Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are my favourite cookie recipe of all time, and you can trust me when I say that because I’ve made it countless times. It’s a classic and staple recipe in my books and all the different types of add-ins allow for endless creativity and satisfy every craving!

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies = Your New Favourite Cookie

If you’re on a diet…you’ve come to the wrong place. Although, I’d love to convince you to have a little cheat day and bake these cookies! So just keep scrolling down and I’ll let the chocolate chips and butter lure you in for themselves.

If you’re looking for a simple and quick recipe, with easy-to-find everyday ingredients that are probably sitting in your fridge and pantry as we speak, you’ve come to the right place!

If you love cookies with alot of different textures…the chewiness that the oats bring, the crunch from the nuts, and the crispy edges from the caramelized sugars…then you’ve DEFINITELY come to the right place.

Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

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This Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is a recipe of mine that has received countless positive reviews; it’s one of the many cakes that I choose to bring with me to a get-together with friends or even just a simple family dinner because it’s reliably ALWAYS a hit and people rave about it!

Let me tell you why this carrot cake is seriously one of my favourite cakes in the whole world:

It is SO moist, fluffy, and flavourful!

It has an incredible variety of texture from the coconut, pineapple, and carrots!

This cake has ZERO raisins in it. It’s #RaisinFree. I’ve been on a Raisin-Free diet since I was very young, and this cake is the answer to all of my Raisin-Free struggles! With this recipe, you do not have to worry about any “surprise raisins” in your carrot cake! (I should be fair to ALL of my readers and disclaim that if you do happen to be a raisin-lover for whatever reason, you can swap out the nuts for raisins. There, I said it.)

It contains both fruits AND vegetables so no worries, it’s totally healthy…right? 😉

It’s topped with a velvety Cream Cheese Frosting. Need I say more?!

Banana Oat Chocolate Chunk Muffins (or Mini Muffins!)

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Hi friends, here is the recipe you’ve all been waiting for: Banana Oat Chocolate Chunk Muffins! I am just so excited to FINALLY be posting this recipe–mostly because I’ve baked these muffins like a hundred times and the recipe is too good not to be shared with the people I love!

Why This Recipe is Amazing:

It’s made with ingredients you already have.

Besides the fact that these Banana Oat Chocolate Chunk Muffins are amazingly moist and delicious, one of the best things about this recipe is that it’s made with ingredients you probably have sitting in your pantry.

Bananas? Check.

Flour? Check.

Oats? Check.

Chocolate Chips? Yup. (Um…always!)