What Baking Means to You

Hello bakers! I’m sharing a special sort of put up at the moment. 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 will all mirror on what baking means to us, both how insignificant or how profound.

Sally wearing blue shirt and khaki branded apron working with dough on counter.

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

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

What Baking Means to Me

In addition to 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, nonetheless little or magnificent that baked good could also be. A senseless rice krispie deal with or a tall, towering wedding ceremony cake.

cake piped with pink and purple piped buttercream decoration

Once I labored a 9-to-5 job in a company atmosphere, coming residence and baking cupcakes (even from a field combine!) helped me chill out and unwind. It merely “felt like me.” In a job the place I didn’t have a lot inventive freedom, baking really stored 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 in a position to make a full-time profession out of this ardour. 12 years later (!!!), baking nonetheless gives the identical quantity of pleasure and inventive freedom. However on a extra severe notice, baking additionally helps handle my anxiousness. A persistent worrier since my teen years, I discover the construction and focus that baking requires to be soothing. I’m in command of the result (properly, largely!) and that management is vital throughout occasions that my anxiousness feels debilitating. Baking is my work, my “me time,” and, properly, my medication.

I’m very grateful I’m in a position to do it.

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

So, what does baking imply to you?