Christina Tosi Quotes

Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.

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

I'm not much of a cake person.

Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

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.

Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

My secret indulgent food is dessert. I have an incredible sweet tooth - chocolate pudding with vanilla ice-cream or trifle and pavlova. I do love dessert.

Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner - but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal.

I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg custard. With the egg custard, which was supposed to be a dessert, I forget to put the sugar in, so that's more of a quiche, isn't it?

I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like.

I'm a sweet eater. I love lemon pie and sweet potato pie.

I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!

I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.

I've always been hooked on baking.

I love the warmth of apple pie.

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

I love pumpkin pie.

A cupcake is just a muffin with clown puke topping.

Chocolate is one of the backbones of the pastry kitchen. It is one of the most important ingredients in our pantry. It is very versatile, it is complex, and it is extremely temperamental.

For the life of me, I could not make a good-looking ice-cream cone.

Meringue allows me to cut out flour in a lot of desserts and make them lighter. It's just about my favorite thing to work with.

I love making apple strudel.

My favorite splurge is homemade chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream or a Sausage McMuffin with egg or scalloped potatoes or turkey yanked right off the carcass and dipped in gravy or See's chocolate.