Confessions of a Wanna-Be Baker
June 7, 2018 6:04 PM "Follow your dreams", they say. So what is my dream then, I ask? What is the one thing that if I could never do again would send me into a spiral of sadness and depression? What is the one thing that I hope, pray, wish, practice, work at, think about constantly, and never get tired of? That would be the dream. What it is for me, is baking. More accurately, baking, candy making, decorating, fondant, cookies, cakes, pies and drooling over cookbooks. I have an entire library of them. But the next question is, can I , a 47 year old woman who has a full time job NOT in the culinary arts, has only home experience, and is a Mom and a Wife, truly ever own my own bakery? Certainly it's a pipe dream. But dream, I do. Whenever the lottery comes around, I put my four bucks in and hope and wonder, if I did win today, I would certainly quit my job and go build a bakery, right? Or would I? I mean, I want it to be a successful bakery, don't I? That