Random Question: How Often Do You Bake?

I love baking. If its raining my kids and I will make c cookies just for fun. Today I made zucchini brownie..they are actually quite yummy. I don't know sometimes I don't bake for months other times I will bake once a week. It depends.

I recently started baking once a week with my 2 1/2 year old son. It's great bonding time plus it teaches him lots of things. We bake all kinds of stuff. Bread, cookies, cakes, muffins.

I just baked brownies this morning. I usually bake every two weeks. I love the smell of something baking in the oven, especially when it is cold outside.

I bake often. I'm kinda obsessed with it actually. I started making christmas cookies about 3 years ago, and had so much fun that day, and after 8 hours of work, I was in awe of the things I had created. I then became cupcake obsessed. I now do parties, showers, Etc. I tend to use my own ideas, and rarely go by a recipe, and I find its so much better when you start adding things that aren't meant to be there. Later this week, I'm having a gathering, and I'm making a pumpkin cupcake with a vanilla cream cheese filling, and whipped cream cheese icing, but I doubt I'll look at any recipe.

One thing I love to do is use something basic like a can of pilsbury cinnamon rolls, and just add to it and do my own version of a pastery. I put diced apples, butter and brown sugar in a 12 count muffin pan, then place each cinnamon roll upside down on top of it, once it's baked, you just flip it over onto a towel or large plate, and you have the best apple cinnamon desert straight out of a bakery that would have cost $10 a dozen, but I do it with the $1.99 can of rolls.

You asked how often I bake, and I got a little carried away. LOL. I am truly obsessed. Check out the pics of my latest creations. -Mostly cupcakes.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2065322&id=1270...

Never, but my (almost) 13 y/o daughter loves to bake at least once a week with the help of her 5 y/o brother (and my supervision). They make bread usually.

I cook all our meals though =-)

I used to bake 1 or 2 times per month, because I have a sweet tooth and hubby likes 'em, too. I don't as much any more because of time and because a toddler + hot oven = asking for trouble.

I did just bake a batch of lemon bars for DH (he loves lemon/citrus), and for me, a batch of chocolate chip cookie bars.

What I do occasionally, which has been actually better for us, is to take a batch of cake (we like the Triple Chocolate Bomb cake) and make it in muffin tins and freeze it. Then, we eat less (because it's not sitting on the counter) and there are 12-24 servings waiting in the freezer that are nice to pop out & warm up in the microwave for 20-30 seconds & serve w/ ice cream--it's great for a nice after-the-baby's-in-bed share-a-dessert-with-hubbie thing, or a quick dessert for guests.

I'm looking forward to doing something with apples--I bought several kinds on sale. I'll probably do some apple crumble, and then cut up and freeze some apple pie filling for later.

I love baking. Things don't always turn out perfect, of course, but usually at least part of it is edible. My mom was a baker and she made homemade bread, cinnamon rolls, all our birthday cakes, apple pie, pumpkin pie, etc. It makes me feel connected to her.

I did have to learn to do it mostly myself, and the baking times still sometimes throw me.... or I get distracted & leave it in too long (like last nights enchiladas).

Hardly ever because I have no willpower when it comes to baked goods!

I bake regularly.....as do my sons (age 14 & 23). It is a comfort thing for us! We do both sugar-free (my husband is a diabetic) & traditional baking. My sis & her kids also bake. At our reunion this past wkend, my niece had prepared 3 different desserts.....after working at school all day!!! Proud of her!

BUT I was raised with baking a huge part of my childhood. On Black Friday, we didn't shop...we baked with my grandmother. By the end of the weekend, we'd have over 1000 cookies ready to be distributed between friends, family, & neighbors! How's that for a family legacy? !!

I love to bake and do so often! I usually take it to work to share after we've had some at home. I was in a baking frenzy this weekend. Two loaves of bread, yellow layer cake with chocolate frosting for my son's birthday, and chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting just because I was already baking and had been wanting to try the recipe! They were delicious by the way. And don't be discouraged by your "mistakes" - baking is a lost art, and practice makes perfect!

i love to bake...usually make something at least once or twice a week now that it's cooler temps. and i make things from scratch, not from a box. makes me feel all betty crockerish :)

I bake ALL the time! I have a Kitchen Aid Stand mixer, I do my own bread, cookies, brownies, cakes, cupcakes and even my own pasta! I love it! It's relaxing and the baked goods taste so much better than anything you can buy in a store, and here's the best part ... YOU CAN PRONOUNCE EVERYTHING IN THE BAKED GOODS! lol

I bake maybe once or twice a month whenever I have a sweet tooth. I bake more during the winter, as the oven heats up the house and in Texas summers, you don't want to heat up the house!

When I bake once a month, I often make Blonde Brownies. PM me if you want the recipe. Easy and tasty. I also made some yummy beer bread recently. VERY easy. Didn't have to wait for any yeast to rise or anything. I make banana bread and boxes of brownies. SOMEtimes cookies, but not as often as brownies.

Baking is the only thing I think I do well. I am always nervous about over-cooking or under-cooking meat. I always seem to mess up when I try to recreate mymom's yummy rice dish recipes.

In the summer I bake about once a month. It's just too hot and I don't like to heat up the house. Lots of fruit salad and pasta salad is consumed at our house in the summer.

In the winter we bake ALL the time. Twice a week would be my estimate. We make lots of bread, biscuits, croisants, muffins... We make a lot of sweets too, but those get given away because we don't eat many sweets. My girls (2 and 4) and I just really LOVE to bake.

We have goof ups too, but they usually taste just as good! Keep baking it's great to have your kids help. They learn so much.

I bake all the time, not just at the holidays. My kids love helping me & it is a great way for us to have some special time together. Sure we make some messes, but they learn that clean up is part of the process. I say we are baking at least once every other week if not once a week.

I bake something every couple of weeks. I made cookies last night and brownies last week. My aunt makes cookies and cakes all the time to take to work.

Once a week if I am lucky. I like to bake, but don't always get a chance. I did get to make cookies with my son this weekend, and he learned that he LOVES chocolate chips.

Wow! Lots of bakers on this website. I bake for birthdays, by request (funerals, hockey tryouts, conference days at school, etc.), for book club, for parties, for gifts/bake sales and the occassional we just feel like making chocolate chip cookies, muffins, etc. I like to make apple crisp every year when the local apples are ready, and I usually save some of the local apples to make a pie for Thanksgiving. Ironically, I don't bake much at Christmas except for a special cookie recipe we inherited from my husband's grandma and that he requests. My mom and grandma do most of the holiday baking, but as they become less able to do it, I assume I will take over some of the responsibilities.

I love to bake but only really do so around the holidays or a birthday. Typically once or twice a month I make muffins because I just make them from a package and my son loves to help. I don't make a lot because if we have it in the house, we all eat it and we both have done a lot to keep weight off.

You said something bad usually happens when you bake but, just based on the two examples you give, I'd say your husband causes bad things to happen when you bake. Most people know you shouldn't store anything in the oven except maybe pans.

That said, I bake every couple of weeks in the cooler weather, every 3 or 4 days in December and none to once a month in the summer.

I bake my famous chocolate chip cookies about once a month. (They taste reallllly good but I use the Nestle Tollhouse recipe, so it's kind of a mystery. My MIL says when she makes them they never taste as good as mine. My husband's secretary would probably pay for my cookies if I wanted to sell them.)

I bake a cake 3 times a year for my husband's and sons' birthdays. (I refuse to bake my own cake, so for my bday they get me a fancy one from a bakery.)

I bake muffins every once in a while. Sometimes at Christmas I make a lot of cookies, and some years I just skip it.

At least 4X a month. Whether it be cookies, a cake (usually for someone else), banana bread... I love baking.

I bake about two to three times a week, and find the creative process of baking very therapeutic! I like knowing what goes in our baked goods, so I always keep whole wheat pastry flour on hand, and try to use brown rice syrup or mollasses as sweeteners when I can. My husband enjoys scones and muffins for breakfast, and I like to keep brownies or other homemade goodies in the freezer. Now that I've become a mom, I enjoy baking even more...it relaxes me and gives me a finished product that I can be proud of...which is a lot to applaud myself for when the rest of the house is being torn apart by my toddler! :)

Maybe every other week. We don't eat them at home (I take them to Bible study, friend's houses, etc.), but if something needs to be brought I am usually asked to bring a baked good or I volunteer to. Enjoy your baking! (Even if it does become a mess!)

I use to bake each week when my kids were little. I don't do it now, years and pounds later. Now I bake with my granddaughter during the winter when it isn't so hot and in the fall when we get the apples from the trees and of course during the holidays.

About once or twice a week --cookies, muffins, cakes, etc.

I also make my own pasta, and I do that about once a week, with one week every two months of mad ravioli making.

All the time, but im not usual, i really enjoy it, so i make cakes, bread, casseroles, lasagnas and even my own crackers

I bake every week. My son has a sweet tooth, so i Like him to have a healthy sweet alternative like this : http://www.muminawe.com/recipes/banana-bread.html

I also add a mashed apple in there sometimes for a change.
I also bake http://www.muminawe.com/recipes/apple-gingerbread-cake.html
Apple and Gingerbread cakes which are heathy and sweet.

Last week I made pastry with apples and a little brown sugar inside, and baked them, then ate them with cream - delicious!

Usually once a week. My boyfriend isn't huge on sweets either. I usually like to bake a lot of muffins. They freeze well, last awhile in the fridge, and are easy to pack for his lunch. Same with cookies, breads, home made biscuits, etc. I also send lots of extras with him for him to share with his co-workers.
A lot of his co-wrokers don't have wives/girlfriends. If they do, the girls don't bake/cook. So I like to give them a treat.
I have baked muffins the last couple of weeks, so I think I am going to make some Halloween sugar cookies, and cupcakes. Then after that apple turnovers for fall....mmmmmmm. Home made cinnamon rolls are good too.

We did the same thing with a cake once--my husband just renamed it "twice baked chocolate cake" and honestly, it was delicious because the frosting kind of melted into it...but it didn't look so good :)...

Ahhhh. I remember the countless times my attempts at baking some new culinary delight failed but with practice comes perfection. When the children were little we baked a cake or cookies every week. Once they got old enough and responsible enough to bake unsurpervised they took over the baking. I try to make certain we have all of the tools of the trade and ingredients for some tasty delight at any given time. It is a huge hit for guest to see me slip into the kitchen and about an hour later we are eating some freshly baked tasty morsel from the kitchen. (HINT: I usually keep dry ingredients in a zip lock bag at any given time labeled for what it could make like sugar cookies, chocolate chip cookies, lemon cake, banana bread.) Makes it even faster to pull together when just having to add oil/butter, eggs, flavored extract, etc and mix.

In the summer it is just too hot to bake some most of my current day baking is done during the fall and winter months with it thinning out in the spring and almost nonexistent in the summer except for an occassional chocolate chip cookie. I really can't resist fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. Might bake some tonight.

I LOVE to bake! I am always (3 or 4 times a month) baking cookies or cupcakes or something yummy for dessert for us. My kids love to help too. kids can learn through baking also. Make it a science experiment!

I bake about once or twice a month, depending on when I get an urge to bake and also if I'm going to a birthday party or somewhere I can bring baked goods, otherwise it would stay in my house and I would eat it all. In the past 3 weeks I've made banana bread and a cheesecake. My husband isn't into sweets either so that is what keeps me from baking all the time. Baking is so different from cooking that some people only like one or the other. It is trickier and easier to screw up a baked good than a regular meal.

I bake all the time a few times a week more now that it's Fall & Holiday's pies galore I make cinnamon rolls,cookies,pies,cakes,brownies,bundt cakes,peach crisp just last nite,biscuits,cupcakes,I love to bake really I do I love sweets my kids get a kick out what I make for them they can't wait till dinner is over to indulge in a little something...So no for me I don't just bake during Holiday's

Often, but not daily. I'd say in the winter once a week I make something (muffins, cookies, sweet bread, etc.) and for the holidays I bake a ton.

In summer, not so much.

J.

about 3-4 times a month, some months more other months less... I love to bake, tired of cooking...

We always use our over ripe bananas to make banana bread or banana muffins. We also use them in our pancakes. What else do you use over ripe bananas for? That is the best way to use them and not waste them.

Try it again, it works just fine with over ripe bananas.

If you want a no fail pumpkin pie recipe, check out Paula Deen's recipe on Food Network.com. It has cream cheese in it - it's awesome and you can't screw it up!

I enjoy baking so I shoot for at least once a week. Usually muffins or scones for breakfast but I love having a reason to make a "fancy" dessert. I also like making quick breads or yeast breads.

When my kids were growing up, I would bake several times a week. Now I bake when we have company. My husband does not eat many sweets at this time. We plan and cook most of our meals.

I love to bake but I'm like you. My hubby doesn't eat sweets and I don't like to have my kids eating junk all the time. I do something maybe every couple of months. Usually cookies. For Christmas though, I go in for a whole day and make cookies for everyone I know.

About once a week, I love baking and I love anything sweet!

I break out the big guns around the holidays of course. I make birthday cakes all year long for friends and coworkers. But around the house, everyday baking - not so much. I make cornbread a couple times a month and I let the kids make a cake, cupcakes, cookies, or muffins once every couple weeks. It's more of a kids activity and distraction than anything else. And almost no baking in the summer! Too bloomin hot.

I bake every couple of weeks.

Maybe once a year, if we are lucky! haha. My husband enjoys cooking and baking. In the winter it is something that he and the kids do together, whether it just be cookies or a cake. I think he enjoys the time with the kids, haha.

Me, on the other hand, do not enjoy it at all. I just see it as one big mess that mom has to clean up. haha. Now, I don't mind cleaning up after my husband and kids have fun b/c they enjoyed themselves and I enjoy watching them enjoy themselves, but for me to bake and make the mess and then have to clean it up, hehe, no thank you!

God Bless the ones who enjoy it (and thanks for sharing with me, hehe).

I bake 2-3 times a month. I never buy pies, cakes, or cookies. Homemade is best and I know what is actually in it! --R. H.

I bake maybe once a month, I wish I did it more. Many of my friends bake weekly, including breads and rolls from scratch.

I bake something every week or so....but i enjoy baking, and 'bad things" don't usually happen when I do, other than us eating it all within a couple days!

However, I AHTE storing anything in the oven, for that particular reason, not even pots or pans. Once time, at my grandparents' house, I was dog-sitting and I preheated the over without looking inside ( my parents and I have never stored things in the oven) soon, I smelled a burning smell. I ran to the kitchen, and there was smoke rolling out of th eoven - my grandpa had put a paper bag of chocolate covered peanuts and a plastic bag of chips in there on top of the cookie sheets and frying pans!

My husband likes to store the cast iron pans we have in there, but i hate it, and put them in the storage drawer underneath, instead.

I think your sister is right, most people only bake for special occassions, unless theya re people who enjoy it particularly.

Jessie

when the weather starts remaining cool for the season, I start to bake just about everything. Lots of casseroles and cobblers.... its the best way to warm up the house and make it smell special when coming in from the cold. The more you do it the more you will enjoy it. It gives you something to look forward to after bbqing all summer. Like, we never eat meatloaf in summer, it's one of our winter meals, many are reserved just for winter time.

Before I started my own cupcake business I usully bakes atleast twice to four times month (its like my therapy hehe) Now I bake once to four times a week for my orders. I really enjoy it though and usually if I dont have an order still bake. I give most of my stuff away though to neighbors or my husbands co workers. :)

Maybe I'm unusual too, because I bake about once or twice a week. I try not to do too much sweet stuff, but on a low budget and looking for healthy things to eat (and since I'm home with the kids and have the time here and actually enjoy it) I make little things here and there. As I'm typing this I'm making home-made pop-tarts (much healthier than store bought ones). I make things like, biscuits for breakfast, quick breads, muffins, homemade graham crackers, taco shells (does that count as baking?) etc.