Sweet Kitchen Tips 25

Not all of us cook the same way. Some of us are super structure, some are on the fly, but at the end we all end up doing what works for each of us.  Case in point, the upside: Tom likes to cook – the downside: he is a mess in the kitchen! Every time he finishes cooking the kitchen looks like a hurricane went right through it.  For my compulsive self, this is just too much for me; I’m totally neurotic when it comes to how I cook and the state of the kitchen while I’m doing it.  The pre-prepping, the actually cooking, the cleaning.  At the core, messiness (for me) has no place in my kitchen, that is why I usually try to be as far away from then kitchen when Tom is cooking something.

Or my head explodes.

But regardless of how you utilized your kitchen, it has been proven that people who lurch from task to task become frazzled, get poor results and eventually abandon the task all together.  And for most frazzle first time cooks, after a kitchen disaster (which can totally be avoided) they simply announce that they cannot cook and loose the opportunity of experiencing such a gratifying talent.

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Sweet Kitchen Tips 23

The last couple of weeks I have taken more than a share of cake decorating classes, either using buttercream or fondant and along the way, I picked up a couple of tips and tricks that can help you make that plain cake into a picture perfect decorated cake. But out of all the tips and tricks that I have picked up one holds the top from all the rest, every single class, every single teacher can not stress enough about this being the most important of all steps. 

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