Top 101 Baking Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Baking Quotes from famous people such as Jesse Palmer, James William Middleton, Annette Bening, Christina Tosi, Sandra Lee, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I'm not good at baking. My girlfriend bakes phenomenall

I’m not good at baking. My girlfriend bakes phenomenally, though.
Jesse Palmer
I have great childhood memories of my mother baking, and I was always a willing participant, especially if it meant I could revarnish the kitchen floor with treacle.
James William Middleton
It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the ‘bad girl’ or the ‘good girl’ or the ‘bad mother’ or ‘the good mother,’ ‘the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children’ or ‘the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,’ all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.
Annette Bening
Baking without gluten is an awesome challenge in terms of the opportunity to learn so much more about what you can create.
Christina Tosi
Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.
Sandra Lee
Workers are baking the pie of prosperity, but they’re not sharing in those dividends. That’s unfair.
Tom Perez
Always bake in the center of the oven. A pan placed too close to the bottom of the oven will receive more heat radiating from the oven floor, baking it faster from the bottom. The reverse is true of something baked on the top rack. Always bake in the center for the most even baking and browning all around.
Claire Saffitz
It’s filled with… baking soda. Because it really smells.
Kate O’Brien
At home Im usually cooking for two, and sizzle platters let me make the most of my limited oven space. Because I can roast multiple things at once on several small platters rather than all together on one big baking sheet, each item can go in and out of the oven just when it needs to.
Sohla El-Waylly
I said I want to get outside the box, but what can I change? I don’t want my cookies to reek of ammonia, so we used baking soda instead of lye. We added ground almonds, which is expensive. We used butter, which is expensive. And we didn’t want any food coloring.
Alvin Leung
I use coconut oil in my cooking and as a beauty product. It’s great for sauteing and baking and makes the best moisturizer and hair treatment. I’m coconut-oil obsessed!
Katie Lee
The thing with children is they’re a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they’re going to turn out.
Len Goodman
People are always asking me baking questions – from strangers DMing me on Instagram, to friends I don’t otherwise talk to anymore texting me, to my own mother and sister calling me on the phone demanding answers.
Claire Saffitz
Baking is one of my many hobbies. I was originally introduced to baking as a child by my grandmother. I continued to bake for friends and family throughout the years for special occasions. I began to create themed treats after receiving continued requests from a lot of my friends.
Rosanna Pansino
Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts – sewing, quilting, cooking, baking – as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way.
Beverly Lewis
My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg.
Cilla Black
The Bake Off’ taps into nostalgic feelings about your mum baking in the kitchen. It’s a big ruddy comfort blanket, and you get attached to the bakers. It also genuinely has a good heart.
Mel Giedroyc
Well, all baking is a technical challenge as far as I’m concerned.
Caroline Quentin
Only bake one type of thing at a time. Even when it seems like you’re killing two birds with one stone, baking multiple recipes at the same time in one oven presents a tricky balancing act.
Claire Saffitz
I could make apple pie every single day. You need to be super precise in order for it to be perfect. I’m such a perfectionist that baking is calming for me. I’ve never burnt anything, thank God.
Julia Michaels
Baking is my business, and it will always come first.
Dwight Henry
I’m a fan of a big roast or a bolognese, but I also love baking.
Daisy Lowe
‘The Great British Bake Off’ has brought baking to the nation, and we’ve seen people from all walks of life and backgrounds experience the highs and lows of competition and, more importantly, helping each other.
Paul Hollywood
My fans are pretty spot-on with their gifts. This girl that was super into baking had made this entire batch of cookies – there were one with a dandelion on it, one with a trailer, and some had my face.
Kacey Musgraves
I’m not heavily into baking.
Nicole Byer
When I got to France I realized I didn’t know very much about food at all. I’d never had a real cake. I’d had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn’t have anything like that in it – it’s all egg power.
Julia Child
I love baking.
Shay Mitchell
Simple jewelry is best – bigger pieces get in the way when I’m baking.
Christina Tosi
I start off by cleansing with the Biore Baking Soda Acne Cleansing Foam. I’ve tried so many different acne products and what I love about this one is it’s very gentle and won’t dry your skin out, all while keeping acne in check.
Madelaine Petsch
I chose to work with Stork’s Sunday Bake Service as it’s a great way to help people out – whether they’re baking experts or baking novices, the service assists people with the same passion as me, so I couldn’t refuse!
John Whaite
Baking is about multi-tasking. If you are organized and prepared, that’s half the battle.
Johnny Iuzzini
I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan

I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone’s vegan cookbook is awesome.
Mary-Louise Parker
Baking is very meditative. It’s precise – you have to weigh out the ingredients, follow it step by step and focus on everything, so it’s just right. It also brings you out of your shell, because if you’ve made a batch of brownies, you share them and its really sociable like that.
John Whaite
It can be easy to brush off appearances as unimportant, but tableside presentation is a big part of a baking dishs appeal.
Sohla El-Waylly
Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn’t you just pull out a box of Bisquick?
Sandra Lee
My father was often away with the army, or in London, but mum did a lot of the cooking. She never liked cakes – not baking. Meat. Fish. That’s what she did.
Tom Parker Bowles
I played in Sri Lanka, so I know how hard it is to come here and win. The weather is baking hot and the conditions are alien to English cricketers.
Jonathan Agnew
Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification.
Jenna Blum
I’ve been enjoying baking with whatever is available at home.
Pulkit Samrat
There are only three questions that matter in the kitchen if you’re cooking and not baking. The first is how good are your ingredients; the second is how much salt to add; and the third is how long to cook whatever it is you’re cooking – the question of doneness.
Tom Junod
I’ve had many baking disasters but whatever it is, I’ll cover it with icing and sprinkles and say a child has made it.
Rylan Clark-Neal
I’ve always loved baking – it’s a huge part of who I am and what I do.
Elizabeth Chambers
Unlike other Jewish families, we didn’t go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.
Ricky Jay
People think the restaurant industry is hard and takes no prisoners, but so does baking, so does retail and so does bus driving. You can’t blame your job.
John Torode
I think a lot of people think being in the kitchen is being really serious, and especially that baking is very serious, very straitlaced. For me, it’s about figuring out your voice, finding your personality, and getting in the kitchen to explore.
Christina Tosi
Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clearly obvious that 99.9 percent of them know nothing at all about music. Nothing. I find this to be quite strange, really. It’s like someone who works in a bakery knowing nothing about baking.
Buzz Osborne
I love evangelising about baking and passing the word on, and I will carry on doing that.
Paul Hollywood
Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously.
Lee De Forest
I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery – that’s how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts.
Kim Barnouin
Baking is therapy.
Paul Hollywood
Jeremy Corbyn confuses the public because he looks like a librarian and enjoys baking bread.
Katherine Ryan
Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
Mary Berry
I’m not a baker, and I don’t know anything about baking, and I don’t claim to.
Nicole Byer
Baking and coding involve using the same parts of your brain and a lot of the same skills, like being able to follow directions or create directions in a very systematic way.
Robin Sloan
I absolutely adore baking with my nieces and nephews. It’s super fun, and I love baking by myself, so what I like to do is have a cabinet for my baking essentials.
Khloe Kardashian
I could be baking a cake and I’ll do it a certain way. If you’re just a creative person, it’ll come out no matter what.
Julia Fox
When you are concentrating on baking 24/7, it is incredible how much you learn.
John Whaite
Baking is both an art and a science.
Sherry Yard
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
Danielle Steel
In my eyes, baking and pastry-making is like a science – all the measuring of quantities and temperatures.
Rick Stein
Imagine you’re in the oven, baking. Some of us know and accept our sexuality right away and some need more time to cook. I should know – I baked for 33 years.
Jason Collins
Sometimes there is dogma in baking and sometimes there is not – you just have to know when to break the rules and when to follow them.
Claire Saffitz