By: Abbi Mohan
An Overview
Baking has always been known as a way to heal and rest the mind. Baking is a way to let out all your emotions and have something delicious to eat after a few hours. When baking there are an endless amount of items you can make. You could make pies, cakes, cupcakes, tarts and even bread. When you bake you can adventure out and not always strictly follow the recipe, your creativity is dying to come out. Being creative allows you to put your own personal flair on the items you are creating and that usually makes the end result more interesting. Not being creative during baking makes it less fun and seems like you are just conducting an experiment at school because you’re following a recipe exactly.
Simple ways to be creative
Being creative when baking can be very simple. You could add a bit more of food colouring to have a more vibrant colour, add extra sprinkles or mix flavours together. When you’re being creative, you’re experimenting and it does not always have to end with a successful product, it is about learning what goes together and what does not. One way to be creative is by having a theme for your baking goods and not creating the same design every time. For example, if you’re going for a magical theme, you do not have to have fairies on all of them. Let your mind explore and have fun with them. Another way to be creative is adding something unusual to spice up a usual item. Such as adding chili powder to a sweet baking good, it would be unexpected and surprise anyone who tries your item.
Express how you are feeling
When being creative with your baking, it is important to showcase how you are feeling on the actual items you create. If you are mad make a cake with flames on it, if you’re sad create tears out of fondant and if you are feeling happy bake bright yellow cupcakes. When you combine your emotions and creative flow, the end result is spectacular. In the end you are left with a unique item that has freed you of everything you were keeping piled up inside of you.
Overall when you’re being creative in the kitchen there is no wrong or right way to do things. Everyone is creative in their own way and it is important to be different. A world where everyone just follows a recipe is boring and bland. Whenever you bake try to be creative.