Betty Crocker

So I don't really know why I love baking so much, but it just is a source of comfort and joy to me. I LOVE baking. I love the measuring, and mixing and kneading of dough. I love the accomplishment of the finished product. I love watching the people I love enjoy what I made. I have this whole food=love thing in my brain, which is probably why I am overweight. :) But I feel like I am putting love into the food I make, and I feel like I am showing my family and friends who much I care by making them something. So today I decided I just really wanted to bake today. I wanted to bake everything!! I only got about half done what I wanted to, but that just means I have another baking day coming soon.

First I made a blueberry pie. We always to to a blueberry farm in texas in the summer and pick blueberries and blackberries. I had frozen a bunch of them from our trip over the summer, in hopes that I could make some jelly with my grandma. Not that I couldn't make it on my own, but I wanted to spend time with my grandma doing something she loves to do, and learning from her what I can while she is around. But after months and months of it just not happening, either they can't do it, or I can't do it, I decided I was going to put those berries to good use today!

Yum!

Next I make a blackberry cobbler. I should have taken a pic of the big beautiful giant juicy blackberries before I covered them, but oh well.

Then I made a blueberry & tangerine crisp with almonds. It was so colorful and pretty I did take a pic of the fruit before I covered this one up!

Here it is when it was all done.

Next I made an apple & cherry pie. I LOVE my apple core machine from pampered chef that my wonderful Aunt got for me. It peels, cores and slices apples all in one machine, all you gotta do it turn the crank! It is awesome!!

And here is the pie all done!

Next I made some oatmeal & raisin cookies.

And then some peanutbutter & chocolate cookies.

I spent all morning and most of the early afternoon baking, making my house all warm and smelling yummy!

I need to have some time now that I can just go deliver baked goodies to all of my friends!! Or else call everyone to come over and help themselves when I get into my baking moods.