Claire Saffitz Quotes

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

I love to make pies - pot pies, quiches, savory tarts, fruit pies. I use an old-fashioned pastry blender with wires and a wooden handle. I never use a recipe.

The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn.

My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every day when I was a child. She would have me knead the dough when I got home from school.

I have been a baker for more than 30 years now, and in terms of equipment, all I really need is flour. It still amazes me what a versatile commodity it is, as you can do so many different things with it, and I never tire of trying new blends and recipes.

Baking is my favourite.

I love pasta. It's something in the water. The pasta and the bread in New York are so good.

I love potato bread. It's so good.

My bread and croissants wouldn't win a prize! I'm not an expert in yeast cookery.

When I'm trying to get bread to prove, I am itching; I am so impatient.

I like to think of bread as really bland cake.

Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.

I bake a chocolate cake from scratch every week.

I love making cakes, and I'm good at it.

I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!

I'm obsessed with muffins.

It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.

Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

Every cook I knows loves to make pizza.

We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread.

Sometimes a manuscript is like bread dough. You have to abuse it.

I'm the chocolate chip cookie king of the world.

I always loved cake. I loved the chemistry of it.