MormonTimes.com: Stepping back from the dark side — confession of a faker baker
I have been living a serious Betty Crocker, Pillsbury Doughboy lie. It's time I said it. "Hi, I'm Roger, and — oh this is so hard — I'm a faker baker."
As things tend to do, my problem began with good intentions. I would take the hours required to lovingly blend brown and white sugar, flour, butter, spices, heavy cream, real vanilla, chopped nuts, chocolate chips, butterscotch, raisins and a host of other heavenly ingredients, to create glorious and masterful works of the baker's art.
It was in the face of this pressure that my dedication to epicurean purity cracked. At first it was little things. I started using frozen piecrusts. When nobody seemed to notice, I was tempted to step further into the dark side. The next thing I knew I was buying premixed chocolate chip cookie dough.
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Oh, my! The horror! The shame! I'm so glad to see this writer…
Relocated Southerner | Oct. 13, 2008 at 11:29 a.m.
