Claire Saffitz Quotes

'The Great British Bake Off' has brought baking to the nation, and we've seen people from all walks of life and backgrounds experience the highs and lows of competition and, more importantly, helping each other.

Most canele recipes begin with an instruction to brush $30 copper molds with melted beeswax. Unsurprisingly, I've never made it past the Internet search for 'used canele molds' before giving up.

Baking has always been one of my many hobbies. After I uploaded my first baking tutorial video, I got a really positive response from the online community, and they started to demand more videos like that.

I can make cookies and do easy stuff. Pies are very specific and hard to do well though.

I love you as New Englanders love pie!

Part 1- In search of Hot Chocolate-Chip Cookies

You can’t hurry love, and you can’t rush puff pastry, either. You can knead too much, and you can be too needy. Always, warmth is what brings pastry to rise. Chemistry creates something amazing; coupled with care and heat, it works some kind of magic to create this satisfying, welcoming, and nourishing thing that is the base of life.

How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue...and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?

I've been baking bread and looking after the baby...Everyone else who has asked me that question over the last few years says. 'But what else have you been doing?' To which I say, 'Are you kidding?' Because bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a full-time job. After I made the loaves [of bread,] I felt like I had conquered something. But as I watched the bread being eaten, I thought, Well, Jesus, don't I get a gold record or knighted or nothing?

United metropolitan improved hot muffin and crumpet baking and punctual delivery company.

If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?

Winter = baking season. It's on.

Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate.

Cookie for you. Cookie for me.

You can't say your favorite kind of cake is birthday cake, that's like saying your favorite kind of cereal is breakfast cereal.

Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.' 'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

I never did cheesecake; I just used my hair.

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.

I made a chocolate cake with white chocolate. Then I took it to a potluck. I stood in line for some cake. They said, "Do you want white cake or chocolate cake?" I said, "yes."

Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting.