[–] Dragonflyy ago
I mean, I can see why someone would bake using a mix/something semi prepared. It's nice to be able to control the timing of it without having to get all the ingredients to make it from scratch, plus you can't always go to the grocery store and pick up cookies or whatever fresh out of the oven. Room temperature cookies are a waste of calories as far as I'm concerned, lol.
[–] sapphire_aperture ago
IMO the only way to eat cookies are fresh out of the oven, a la mode.
[–] DorothyMantooth ago
And not everyone is good at baking, I get that. I'm an "everything from scratch" person, because I'm good at it and I enjoy it, but not everyone is like that. That's okay. And IMO baking from boxes is a good place to start, too; I started baking from scratch because I was bored with boxes and wanted to branch out.
[–] DorothyMantooth ago
I have one thing that I bake out of a box--the "World's Easiest Cookies," which I made the mistake of making for my kid's class at school once and got requests for ever after (a box of Devil's Food cake mix, an egg, and 1/4 C veg oil, roll into balls, roll balls in powdered sugar, and bake). They actually really are good. But everything else I bake from scratch, including cinnamon rolls. And I looove cinnamon rolls, but we never finish all the ones I bake--my recipe makes two pans full and there is just no way four normal people can eat two dozen cinnamon rolls in the four days or so before they become inedible.
I cannot imagine eating the eight rolls I think those tubes make in one sitting, especially not with that supersweet orange frosting all over them. I admit they're pretty tasty, but...jesus, she ate the whole thing?
[–] jynnan_tonnyx 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago (edited ago)
Right you are on both points. Which is why I love how hams are always called out when they decide to play "food-critic". Hams do not care about the quality of the food they shovel into their gaping maws, but the quantity.
I grew up helping my mother when she would bake/cook in the kitchen. I attribute my complete lack of desire for insta-shit and packaged junk to my having this exposure to true-made confections and other food-stuffs. If I am going to indulge in something, I want it to be properly made.