Paul Hollywood Quotes

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.

When I was a kid, I loved having muffins and cupcakes and I still like them with coffee.

I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.

I have memories of my grandfather Kirkman making mashed potatoes that were so good because they tasted like a bowl of butter. I love my mom's brownies. My favorite thing about both of those recipes is that someone else made them for me.

Smell is so powerful, you know. My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.

I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.

I think that cakes should have touches of candy bar in order for it really to hit all those childhood notes on the keyboard.

My mom used to bake so much when I was a child, and I have a big sweet tooth.

My cheat food is mainly all the sweet stuff I love to eat - pastries, chocolates, cakes and besan ka ladoo.

I believe with baking there is a certain nostalgic fix.

I grew up to the smell of doughnuts, scones, pies, and bread.

Growing up, I loved looking at the photos in my mother's old Betty Crocker cookbook: the chocolate cakes, the cookie house, even the cheese balls and fondues.

When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

I'll never turn down a red velvet cupcake.

I love cakes. Chocolate and coconut cakes. I love that combination!

In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate with care and love, from relatives or special restaurants like the kind elderly man who dusted seasoning salt on French fries at the corner burger joint.

I have a constant sweet tooth, so I like anything from the bakery, like cupcakes, cookies.

If I see a roll of Bubble Tape, a bag of Haribo Gold-Bears or a pouch of green-apple Big League Chew, I'm eleven again.

When I was young, I ate Ho Hos every day.

I baked the coffee cake recipe from 'The Joy of Cooking' over and over again when I was a kid.

As a little girl, I remember always wanting my grandmother to make blackberry cobbler for me. I'm obsessed with it.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

My mom, she cooks the best pound cakes in the world.

I was raised by a gaggle of women who all loved to bake. Dessert always existed after any savory meal. I was raised with cookies on the plate, brownies in a Tupperware container, and so on.