These Baking quotes will inspire you. Baking is a method of preparing food that uses dry heat, typically in an oven, but can also be done in hot ashes, or on hot stones.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging Baking quotes, Baking sayings, and Baking proverbs.
Best Baking Quotes
- “Baking may be regarded as a science, but it’s the chemistry between the ingredients and the cook that gives desserts life. Baking is done out of love, to share with family and friends, to see them smile.” ~ Anna Olson
- “It’s all about a balancing act between time, temperature and ingredients: That’s the art of baking.” ~ Peter Reinhart
- “If baking is any labor at all, it’s a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.” ~ Regina Brett , Love baking quotes
- “Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and writing about them, thinking about them, and sharing them with you.” ~ Maida Heatter
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“God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking!” ~ Chip Ingram
- “A party without cake is really just a meeting.” ~ Julia Child
- “Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic – you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.” ~ Marian Keyes
- “The smell of good bread baking,
like the sound of lightly flowing water,
is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight” ~ M. F. K. Fisher - “Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.” ~ Dorie Greenspan
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“A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.” ~ Barbara Johnson
- “Most recently, I learned another hobby: baking. It’s so much fun to mix all the ingredients and to see the cake come out nice. It’s so rewarding when the cake comes out great and tastes great.” ~ Yani Tseng , Cake baking quotes
- “I love baking, it’s the most calming thing for me. It’s therapeutic, it makes the house smell good, and I get to take the goods to my friends. I do it for other people.” ~ Lily Collins
- “Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” ~ Harriet Van Horne
- “Baking is Life. So when you describe what you’re making, you must describe life. Do you see? It’s not just recipes.” ~ Jenny Colgan
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“Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.” ~ Sandra Lee
- “A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.” ~ James Beard
- “When there is very little else left to believe in, one can still believe in an honest loaf of fragrant, home-baked bread.” ~ Anna Thomas
- “If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.” ~ Elon Musk
- “I’m baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes!” ~ Thom Yorke
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“A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it’s almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies.” ~ Linda Sunshine
- “The measuring and mixing always smoothed out her thinking processes – nothing was as calming as creaming butter – and when the kitchen was warm from the oven overheating and the smell of baking chocolate, she took final stock of where she’d been and where she was going. Everything was fine.” ~ Jennifer Crusie
- “Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.” ~ Regina Brett
- “Baking is like washing–the results are equally temporary.” ~ Patricia Briggs
- “Some days, I’m as shallow as a baking pan, but I still stretch miles in all directions.” ~ Rives
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“Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.” ~ Pythagoras
- “Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it’s easy.” ~ Nigella Lawson
- “A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.” ~ Danielle Steel
- “There are so many forms of love. Spending time with friends, love stories. I enjoy showing my love by baking a cake for somebody and writing his or her name on it, and seeing his or her reaction. I love to offer flowers too!” ~ Pom Klementieff , Joy of baking quotes
- “I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There’s no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.” ~ Martha Stewart
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“Winter = baking season. It’s on.” ~ Taylor Swift
- “Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn’t you just pull out a box of Bisquick?” ~ Sandra Lee
- “Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.” ~ Kirby Larson
- “I love being at home and cooking and baking.” ~ Blake Lively
- “The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight… [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world’s sweetest smells… there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.” ~ M. F. K. Fisher
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“Baking is my business, and it will always come first.” ~ Dwight Henry
- “I love being in the moment. I love my family. I love chocolate. I love baking.” ~ Debbi Fields
- “Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen.” ~ Sandra Lee
- “When I got to France I realized I didn’t know very much about food at all. I’d never had a real cake. I’d had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn’t have anything like that in it – it’s all egg power.” ~ Julia Child
- “Sometimes…we don’t want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.” ~ Nigella Lawson
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“The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done” ~ Edward Young
- “I have a giant baking book, so I close my eyes and pick a random page. Whatever it is, I try to bake it!” ~ Nina Dobrev
- “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.” ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
- “There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.” ~ M. F. K. Fisher
- “He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here’s yet in the word ‘hereafter’ the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.” ~ Hilary Swank
- “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.” ~ Ron Ben-Israel
- “Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It’s fun whether it’s baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.” ~ Sandra Lee
- “In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burning into baking asphalt.” ~ Alyson Richman
- “What people don’t realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs – we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc.” ~ Kurt Cobain
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“Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I’ll have one spice that’s for sweets, and that’s pumpkin pie spice.” ~ Sandra Lee
- “But of course you can have your cake and eat it, too – if you decide to bake a second cake. And you may well find that baking two cakes does not take twice the work of baking one.” ~ Robert Kuttner
- “From the baking aisle to the post office line to the wrapping paper bin in the attic, women populate every dark corner of Christmas. Who got up at 4 a.m. to put the ham in the oven? A woman. . . . Who sent the Christmas card describing her eighteen-year-old son’s incarceration as ‘a short break before college?’ A woman. Who remembered to include batteries at the bottom of each stocking? A woman. And who gets credit for pulling it all off? Santa. That’s right. A man.” ~ Rachel Held Evans
- “God made men by baking them in an oven, but he forgot about the first batch, and that’s how Black people were born. And then he was so anxious about the next batch, he took them out of the oven too soon, so that’s how White people were made. But the third batch he let cook until they were golden-golden-golden, and, honey, that’s you and me.” ~ Sandra Cisneros
- “I want to work on some more complicated baking… and it would be interactive!” ~ Lisa Loeb
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“I love cooking and baking.” ~ Rachel Bilson
- “Baking is too precise for me. I cook with a pinch of this or that.” ~ Eva Longoria
- “Making pasta, cooking pasta and baking bread are two essential ideas to create a little bit of excitement, and you learn the basic, and then evolve it. Flavor the bread, flavor the pasta, go to a fish, go to a meat sauce and take it to another level.” ~ Gordon Ramsay
- “St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.” ~ Bertrand Russell
- “In all honesty, my cake was baking when I met Al – I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.” ~ Star Jones
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“I was always Armie. There couldn’t be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.” ~ Armie Hammer
- “I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.” ~ Dan Savage
- “I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I’m a pretty simple girl.” ~ Nicole Scherzinger
- “Alfred Austin said, “Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.”” ~ Alfred Austin
- “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?” ~ John Lennon
- “Little things like making clothes, baking bread, cooking, even useless things like bird-watching, sketching flowers, playing guitar in the home – that sort of time is gone. And the time we have? We’re so exhausted, we want to let ourselves get sucked into the escape world of TV. I’m speaking from experience; I’m not above all this.” ~ Tom Hodgkinson
