baking days

Dear lovely readers,

Today is a baking day. I want to make some red velvet cupcakes. What do you think? I want to test run them for a valentines day treat. I love baking. For some people, reading, shopping, or eating are a therapeutic ritual when stress arrives on the 12 o' clock train to (_insert name here._)

My rather wonderful ritual is baking something gorgeous. I love perfection with baking. Whenever I make a scrumptious treat, it better come out of the oven looking perfectly perfect in every perfect way.

I'm not sure why, but today I want to bake. I want flour to get on my face, hear the mixing bowl buzzing as it whips the batter, I want to see that lovely red of love come alive into cupcakes. That's how I'll share my love; by giving my cupcakes and goodies away.

Oh for the love of baking something perfectly wonderful.

Love, Maddie Violet