35 Baking Quotes That Will Sweeten Your Day

Whether you’re an avid baker or just someone who enjoys burning your mouth with a hot cookie the second your roommate takes them out of the oven, you’ll appreciate these baking quotes. Coming from professional bakers, total novices, and celebrities who simply love baked goods, these sayings are sweet.

So if you’re for an Instagram caption for your next pic of your homemade banana bread, we’ve got you covered. Need some inspiration to get back in the kitchen after a baking slump? Keep on reading.

Seeking quotes to write on a post-it note and stick around your apartment so someone will take the hint and bake you a dang cake already? Look no further.

35 Baking Quotes

1. “This was why she enjoyed baking. A good dessert could make her feel like she’d created joy at the tips of her fingers.” – Marissa Meyer, “Heartless”

2. “Every skilled baker was first an amateur.” – Chris Geiger

3. “Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it’s about simplicity and nostalgia – people are reminded of their childhood.” – Paul Hollywood

4. “Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.” – Mary Berry

5. “Baking is…Life. So when you describe what you’re making, you must describe life. Do you see? It’s not just recipes…” – Jenny Colgan, “Meet Me at the Cupcake Café”

6. “You don’t have to love cooking to cook, but you have to do more than love baking to bake. You have to bake out of love.” – Tom Junod

7. “Baking is both an art and a science.” – Sherry Yard

8. “A party without cake is really just a meeting.” – Julia Child

9. “If there’s a whisk, there’s a way.” – Unknown

10. “Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic – you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.” – Marian Keyes

11. “Never ask a baker what went into a pie. Just eat.” – George R.R. Martin, “A Dance with Dragons”

12. “Crushes are stressful. Dating is disappointing. Every relationship, you either break up or get married and then divorced. Pies can’t hurt you.” – Ngozi Ukazu

13. “I’ve started baking. Having my hands deep in dough keeps them away from my phone.” – Katy Tur

14. “Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.” – Gloria Steinem

15. “Civilization was built around wheat, around people settling down and not being nomadic. Baking is one of the oldest professions.” – Paul Hollywood

16. “The matriarchs of my family loved to bake, and the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. Baking became something I did every day; it became a time where my creative and nurturing side took stage.” – Christina Tosi

17. “A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it’s almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies.” – Linda Sunshine

18. “It’s all about a balancing act between time, temperature, and ingredients. That’s the art of baking.” – Peter Reinhart

19. “Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and writing about them, thinking about them, and sharing them with you.” – Maida Heatter

20. “Desserts are the fairy tales of the kitchen – a happily-ever-after to supper.” – Terri Guillemets

21. “Baking is done out of love, to share with family and friends, to see them smile.” – Anna Olson

22. “Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.” – Jim Davis

23. “A balanced diet is having a cookie in each hand.” – Barbara Johnson

24. “You are the boss of that dough.” – Julia Child

25. “Life happens. Baking helps.” – Unknown

26. “Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.” – Regina Brett

27. “Baking is about multi-tasking. If you are organized and prepared, that’s half the battle.” – Johnny Iuzzini

28. “Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification.” – Jenna Blum

29. “Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.” – Doxie Greenspan

30. “Flour and butter, cream and sugar, words and images, all the ingredients for a rich, tasty story.” – Rona Simmons

31. “Many happy childhood memories begin in the kitchen, baking and decorating birthday cakes. It’s one of the sweetest parts of childhood.” – Deanna F. Cook

32. “An apron is just a cape on backwards.” – Unknown

33. “I’ve never met a problem a proper cupcake couldn’t fix.” – Sarah Ockler

34. “Make gifts meaningful by putting the time in creating them, whether baking and cooking, or in making arts and craft.” – Lidia Bastianich

35. “Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.” – Daniel Handler

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Laura is the Boston-based Editor at Let's Eat Cake. She currently writes about products, entertainment news, beauty trends, and food, and has contributed to a variety of lifestyle publications, including Popular Science and Flixed. She is also the co-founder of Adultescence, a podcast and blog for post grads, where she writes about friendship and dating.

When she's not typing away on her laptop, you can find Laura working on her MBA at Boston College, listening to Taylor Swift, or sweating it out at an OrangeTheory class. Follow her on Instagram @LauraKristine21 and LinkedIn.