Bake, Bake, BAKE!

First step, know how to bake...second step is to bake!  

I have been watching my Mom bake since I was a kid.  At Christmas, my Mother makes about 125 dozen (yes dozen) cookies, 12 different kinds and that does not include the dozen or so Hungarian Nut Rolls.  She does this WHY?  Not as a business, not as a professional baker but to gift because something from the kitchen, and especially from my Mom's kitchen, is like gold!  So from that, I learned early on the love of baking!  

As a child, I was able to help my Mom bake by unwrapping Hershey kisses for her Italian Cookies and also Peanut Blossoms.  Our hands ALWAYS had to be washed first and if we dropped one on the floor, it was NOT to be used.  My sister and I would sometimes drop them on the floor on purpose so we could eat them :).  Today, I have continued that tradition with my children, and they too, like to drop Hershey kisses on the floor.  

For birthdays, holiday gatherings, bake sales and school events, my kids birthdays, I bake, bake, bake.  When I attend a party and ask what it is I can bring, I am always asked to bring the same thing...the dessert.  So I guess I can stop second guessing my skill and put it to work.  Now is the time!  And by starting as an on-line, out of my kitchen for friends and family business, I hope to turn this into more someday, someday soon.  

The biggest pleasure I get from baking is putting a smile on the faces of the people who eat my treats, well that and the taste testing part.  So thanks to my Mom, if it was not for her love and talent of baking, I would not be able to share my YuMMMy creations!