Karen Bender Quotes

I like a gooey cookie.

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.

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

Feeling good about your life, but not expressing a heartfelt 'thank you,' is like wrapping a gift for someone and never giving it to them.

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream.

Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

I love having a croissant and a great cup of coffee. Just one cup.

Nothing beats the original Krispy Kreme.

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

Every time you make a fruit crisp for me, you are my favorite person in the world. It's something delicious and warm, right out of the oven. I mean, what more could anyone want? And all you're doing is taking the best fruit of the season, putting a crumb topping on it and putting it in the oven.

I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!

I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.

I'm not saying I don't enjoy the days that I'm not eating chocolate cake. But I do particularly like those days when I am eating chocolate cake.

There's almost nothing better than a baguette and a pound of salami.

That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.

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

I love food, and I love carbs: Pasta, rice - that's my thing.

A man can give me a steak, and he's got my attention.

The most beautiful thing in the world is my grandmother's apple pie.

Both of my grandmothers have always been really good bakers, and I was always in the kitchen helping them. Obviously I can't eat a lot of the things that I make, but just baking it and giving it to someone makes me feel really good.

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

I love making pastas and pizzas - carbohydrates.

I love potato bread. It's so good.