A couple of years ago when I started the Teenie Cakes blog (originally on Blogger), my intention was to blog about cupcakes and baking. Ironically, I haven’t posted one recipe on cupcakes. There are a lot of inspiring cupcake blogs (my all-time fav Cupcake Bakeshop by Chockylit) out on the internet and I was inspired and excited about cupcakes. The thing is, I can’t possibly eat all those cupcakes I want to make. Unless I’m baking for my nephews if and when they visit, what to do with all those cupcakes? Inevitably, hubby and I will eat most of them … and eat them we would! If I made the standard recipe size of a couple dozen cupcakes as often as I wanted to, we’d both be bigger than a house!
Then I joined The Daring Bakers and not only was it fun, it’s just what I needed to challenge my baking skills, take me to the next level and open me up to baking projects that I would probably never have embarked on, on my own. I really enjoy the “Daring” community and I get to kill three birds (odd expression) with one stone:
- My love for baking
- My love and enjoyment for food photography (major challenge)
- My enjoyment of blogging
Other things I enjoy along the lines of food is cooking and wine. With cooking, it’s quite a challenge to photograph the food/meal you’ve just prepared, because unlike baking — it almost always has to be served more immediately than your baking creations. I feel that food posts should include images most of the time because, after all, we do tend to eat with our eyes and I toil with “will my posts be interesting without pictures?” The Teenie Cakes blog was suppose to be a journal of my thoughts and experiences related to baking and cooking. I lost focus of that.
BTW – if you haven’t seen “Julie and Julia” (Meryl Streep and Amy Adams) and you enjoy cooking/baking/movies and blogging …it’s a must see. Definitely one for my DVD library!
