Prue Leith Quotes

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

No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.

It's true that writing and pastry-making are similar, but when you work as a pastry chef, you can get a kind of mania that everything you see is related to pastries.

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.

Desserts are my life - making them, eating them, and teaching others how to prepare them perfectly.

I'm a baker. I'm really good at muffins. I'm really good at banana bread. I'm really good at making cookies. I'm really good at making biscuits - all the really bad stuff.

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

I'm passionate about anything I align myself with. You want to talk about chocolate chip cookies? I'm not going to open a chocolate chip cookie store, but I will talk your ear off about it.

I love to eat, I love to feed people, and I'm a great cook. I joked with my friends that I wanted to write a book where desserts had to be extensively researched, since I have a terrible sweet tooth. My particular downfall is cake.

I'm not a cook. I don't think I ever will be.

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

The first thing I wanted to be growing up was a solicitor, because all the people around me needed solicitors! But I never really followed it up. Then I wanted to be a dessert chef because I liked the presentation.

Dad was a baker, and we lived above the bakery, so I was always popping down to have an apple pie or a doughnut or a custard or gypsy tart: I had a very sweet tooth, and I think that that was what got me into doing what I do now.

No, I was not into cake fails before hosting 'Nailed It.'

Pastry school is great for a foundation and introducing you to basic techniques, but it is really up to the chefs to practice, practice, practice and refine their techniques.

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

There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires an exceptional level of creativity and attention to detail.

I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.

I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.

I make a mean coconut macaroon.

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

I'm a good cook; one of my specialities is reindeer and potato pie.

I do love a man who can cook.

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.