Greg Rutherford Quotes

The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.

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

When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time.

I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery - that's how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts.

The process of making a wedding cake is complex on its own, from designing, mis-en-place, baking, frosting, structuring, decorating, to delivering.

The inspiring thing is that people are often more experimental with their desserts than other courses. It allows me to be more creative and excite people.

All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way.

I've never been much of a cake-maker.

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.

I've baked more cakes since I've been on 'Bake Off' than I have in my life.

Why not question what can or can't be a layer in layer cake?

I love to bake, especially cupcakes. I'm really good at it.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

Baker, baker, can you explain, if truly his heart was made of icing.

I am good at baking. I don't know if that counts as a talent, but I love to bake. Everybody says I'm good at it, so apparently I make the best banana bread.

My fans are pretty spot-on with their gifts. This girl that was super into baking had made this entire batch of cookies - there were one with a dandelion on it, one with a trailer, and some had my face.

Photographing a cake can be art.

I get really cool gifts, and I know this sounds really lame, but I think one of the best gifts I've ever received was the Easy Bake Oven when I was younger. When I was little, I loved to bake! I want to get one now so I can make weird mini desserts for people.

The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.

I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.

I'm a very bad baker.

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.

No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.

I've always been hooked on baking.

Baking without gluten is an awesome challenge in terms of the opportunity to learn so much more about what you can create.