Claire Saffitz Quotes

I think there's something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter's first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full cake and cuts the number birthday out of it.

I make a mean Irish soda bread every Christmas and give it out to friends and family.

Every year since culinary school I have made a Buche de Noel, or Yule Log.

I know it's hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we're talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It's an absolute fundamental.

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing.

Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.

I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.

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

When people say, 'Hey, wanna come to our house for dinner?' I say, 'Yeah, what should I bring?' They say, 'How about the dessert?' I just don't skimp on the dessert. I make it the yummy way it should be made, and then I just don't eat the whole pan.

Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.

My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.

The great thing about baking is that you can bring in an apple pie when you have company and say, 'I baked this for you,' and people love it. Men love it when you bake a pie for them.

Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.

My mother made wonderful cheesecake. She loved cheesecake. She ate it every day of her life.

A cupcake is just a muffin with clown puke topping.

There was a period when I had apple pie as a treat every day of the week. I mean, like, a family apple pie.

I make a huge batch of cinnamon buns on Christmas Eve and bake them off early Christmas morning.

I love making apple strudel.

I love roasted pecans. I'll make a sort of granola with the roasted pecans, turn that into a super nutty pie crust, and top that with apple-syrup pudding and top that with cooked custard and maple syrup.

Children love cupcakes and so do I - a good one makes the perfect afternoon pick-me-up.

I fell in love with pastry because I felt I could be much more creative. It's precise, and you don't have to kill anything.

My sister, mom, and I always make holiday treats like Christmas cutout cookies and red and green chocolate chip cookies.