Baking Therapy

Different people have different ways of dealing with stress. Stress eating is the most common while others turn to shopping therapy. I've definitely tried both of those ways in dealing with stress. But both off them have negative effects to me, shopping leaves a big hole in my pockets and binge eating just makes me feel guilty.

But lately I have discovered a way to relieve my stress, baking. As you know, I recently got my own oven and have been trying some recipes. Although I have not been baking as much as I would want to, since I have been soooooo busy at work, I really enjoy making desserts from scratch.

Baking for me is so therapeutic. Whenever I feel stressed, I just bring out my baking stuff and almost immediately, my stress fades. Another upside is that I no longer have to buy sweets to cheer me up. I just eat whatever I make. Also, my family benefits from this because there is always dessert, haha.

Here are some of the desserts I have made/ baked.

My strawberry cheesecake

Albino Leche Flan

Uneven Chocolate Chip Cookies

Gooey Brownies

Vanilla Cupcake

Happy cupcake

Just looking at them makes you happy. :)

Day Off Project #4: Chocolate Chip Cookies

I have a new baby. My oven! After months of saving for it, I finally got one. No more "no-bake" recipes for me.

My first baked project was pretty simple, Chocolate chip cookies. Just mix all the ingredients in a bowl, pop them in the oven, then voila, cookies.

The ingredients are flour, baking soda, salt, butter, brown and white sugar, vanilla, eggs, and of course chocolate chips.

For my first batch of cookies, I put too much dough and put them to close so they kinda got stuck with each other. This resulted to square cookies, haha.

My succeeding batches were better, they looked more like cookies. But the sizes were still uneven, some were bigger than the others. I still need more practice baking but I got good responses during our outing. My cookies were sold out. haha. :)