My first cake, oh the agony!

I dream of baking a white, pristine, fluffy cake with lighter than air whipped frosting. I wanted all of my cakes to be homemade, from scratch. No boxed cake mix, and certainly no frosting from a can! Oh no. Watching the Great British Baking Show with everyday folks baking marvelous things told me I could do it.

My first cake with my new KitchenAid mixer was a total

Baking scares the poop out of me!

Baking from scratch makes quiver in my boots. It’s the game of the precise person. The caring and careful person. The person who thinks before they act. It involves a lot of planning and a lot of thinking! Someone great with patience, detail and finesse. This is not me. At all. I’m a fly by the seat of my pants cook.

Cooking is in my blood. I watched my mother cook