Lidia Bastianich Quotes

I do really good banana bread. And I make a chocolate cake with fudge icing that's bloody delicious.

I'm not much of a cake person.

I think it is over-rated. Whenever I go to an Italian restaurant, I never get the tiramisu.

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.

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

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.

Disappointing cakes have often been sitting out too long. They should last just long enough to have the last pieces the next morning with coffee - who doesn't love cake with coffee?

I don't really cook much. I'm more of a baker. My favorite things to bake that everybody loves, and I can only keep in the house for about ten minutes, are 7-Up cake and Pineapple Upside-Down cake.

I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life.

If I'm going to have something rich and yummy, I'm not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I'm going to make a pie from scratch.

It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.

I have a constant sweet tooth, so I like anything from the bakery, like cupcakes, cookies.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

I like anything sweet.

I like pralines-and-cream ice cream.

I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.

I never say no to an ice cream.

I always loved cake. I loved the chemistry of it.

I love chocolate in any form, be it cookies, cakes or milkshakes.

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

Every good jam tart deserves the finest preserve.

I love chocolates. It could be something as simple as a chocolate cake with vanilla ice-cream, or it could be macarons filled with chocolate.

Sometimes I do give in to a scoop of sitaphal ice cream from Naturals or a chocolate chip cookie.