Ever since I was little, one of my favourite things was to help my mom bake in the small kitchen of my childhood home. She would set up a little stool for me to stand on and give me instructions on what to mix together, remaining calm when I created a flour explosion or accidentally allowed too many egg shells into our bowl. She baked all of our Christmas cookies, birthday cakes, and muffins for our lunch boxes every week.
The pictures above are of me and my family members with the beautiful birthday cakes that my mom made.
As I entered my double digits, I reached the age when I could cook and bake by myself, so I got started on trying to be a baker just like my mom. Even though my mom still baked for us, I started to make my own baked goods. I fed my family chocolate chip cookies, brownies, blueberry muffins, and more. I even started making my own birthday cakes, still with some much needed assistance from my mom.
Now, I have a little folder full of recipes that I have collected over the years and in little ways I have made them my own. I held onto them with the goal of one day having my own recipe book that I can pass on to my children with the hope of giving them the same happy memories I have when I think of baking with my mom.
And so, I thought of an idea for this blog that would combine my love for baking and my passion for multimedia projects. My goal is to create a recipe book with hand crafted pages for each of my favourite recipes that I can add to and pass down one day to my family. I hope to make each recipe as I create its page and post my culinary and crafting process.
As the title says: let’s get started!
— Sofia 🎀
