Do You Bake?

I don't. However I want to become a baker. I have a little boy and imagine making him birthday cakes, and baking up cookies and other sweet confections - with him - for holidays and just because! I can't wait to see the recipes for choc-chip cookies. I know the most important ingredient my mom used to tell me - is TLC!

nope.. but, I'd really love to know how to bake so i can give my mother a cake this mother's day! :).. :)

I've just started baking fairly recently, and I'm still no expert at it. I've got a few recipes that I've worked with that produce really nice, tasty cakes though, so with those under my belt I'm learning to quite enjoy it. My favourite is a banana cake, but I also make a nice marmalade cake, and I've recently got my son making fork biscuits which he wants to make a couple of batches of whenever he has a spare moment. My major problem with baking is that I never have the right ingredients to hand when I'm in the mood to make something different. Good luck with your cookies. I'm sure they'll be excellent :-)

The best chocolate chip cookie recipe can be found on the back of Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chips. It's the one I use all the time, it's difficult to mess up, and they are sooo good. My tip, if you like softer cookies, don't bake them as long as the directions say. Let them still be soft in the middle. They continue to cook for another minute when they're out of the oven due to the heat of the cookie itself, and harden up a bit after they're out. I actually am going to make these myself this weekend, I bought the chocolate chips today.