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"Can you believe it? Here I am, the daughter of a master baker and I can&amp;#039;t bake to save my life! How the heck did this happen? Is it a missing gene? A chromosomal abnormality? I can cook ANYONE under the table. Shoot, I am so quick at the cooking draw that I can throw a complete meal together in pretty much no time and have EVERYONE licking their plates, beggin&amp;#039; for more! Nothing gets between me and my burners. BUT, baking\u2026 Boxed cakes, you say? Premade cookie tubes? Honey, I&amp;#039;ve tried the best of them and scorching everything seems to be my M.O. Why, oh why, can&amp;#039;t I bake worth a darn? I envy all of my baking family members and friends. Show-offs! My brother Bennie\u2013a man!\u2013has inherited all of the baking genes, darn him! He can just look at a bag of flour and make it taste good. I&amp;#039;ve yet to have one bad cake or cookie from him, and GOD knows I am biding my time, just waiting until the day that one of his ingredients goes awry. I&amp;#039;ve been humiliated by the best of &amp;#039;em\u2013one of my son&amp;#039;s teachers Katharine Broderick is a world-renowned brownie baker extraordinaire (folks have offered her their firstborn for her recipe!); my &amp;#039;other mother,&amp;#039; Lily Drake, at 84 years young (God bless her heart), is still whipping up chocolate cakes ALL from scratch and in a cinch; my buddy Karen Halliburton is highly recognized in these parts for her carrot cakes with cream cheese frosting\u2013darn them all! My friend Lorna Deshay&amp;#039;s cakes are not only so scrumptious but true works of art. She opened up her own bake shop in Snellville, Georgia, (www.createacakebakery.com) and is now sharing her gift of baking with the world! Hmph\u2026. Woe is me\u2026I guess I will just continue to be baking-deficient. Oh well, you can&amp;#039;t have it all; I think I&amp;#039;m a much better cook than EVERYONE I&amp;#039;ve mentioned any old way (smooches to you all!). Are you baking-deficient? What is the worst baking disaster that has ever come out of your oven? Come on, misery loves company! \u2013Ruth Manuel-Logan Here are some yummy no-brainers that look and taste like you&amp;#039;ve been baking for hours: Chocolate Chunk Cookies No-Bake Mango Cheesecake Viennese Brownies "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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