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I can't really say how it all started but somehow over the last few years I have developed an absolute fetish to the world of baking.  And not just cookies and muffins.  I mean out of this world, seven hour long projects, that cost a near fortune to create. 

I do remember the tipping of the scale.  Hmmm...that sentence brought up a whole different issue about sweets after it came out, but what I was referring to was the pushing-over point with my obsession for creating delectable goodies.  It was two years ago this month and I was sitting in my car waiting for a friend to join me at a restaurant for lunch.  I had picked up my latest edition of Bon Appetit magazine and it had a cake on the cover that made my heart pitter patter.  I became so engrossed in the recipe and the pictures, that before I knew it, my friend was knocking on my car window asking me if I was looking at a dirty magazine from the happy and glazed over expression on my face. 

I  made that cake and I have been on a mission ever since.  The mission is to perfect my baking skills and create my own recipes.  This is, of course, all working towards my retirement plan of opening my own bakery.  I've set on a course of making one dessert a week.  My problem?  My hips don't need it.  My husband's waist doesn't need it either.  We feel compelled to eat the spoils since they're just sitting in the refrigerator.  I'm looking for volunteers who would be willing to take half of my creations.  This week will be a lattice top sour cherry pie, courtesy of Bon Appetit magazine. 

Also, I would love to start baking goodies for special occasions. If you buy the ingredients, I'll give you a WOW dessert.  Of course, you have to like it sweet.  That's the only way I do it!

Take a gander at four of my creations in the slide show!