While I love cooking savory food, my passion really is baking.  Through the years, without even striving for it, I have become the “baker” of the family.  We need a birthday cake. Call Monica.  A fancy dessert needed? Call Monica.

Indeed, I am fond of sweet treats. (Psst.. check the blog title.)

But even though I felt comfortable baking, I knew I was not a GREAT baker.  There were tons of things out there in the baking world that were so unknown to me—pies, anything with yeast, techniques, certain flavor combinations—I was never gutsy enough to try them. I had gotten comfortable in my regular dessert repertoire.

Until I started this blog and saw what was out there – possibilities.  And the baking guru inside of me woke up and tapped me on the shoulder and told me, “Dude, you need to feed me more baking challenges.”