How the Great British Baking Show Inspired Me to Give Baking Another Try — British TV Shows

I've always loved to cook, but for a long time I felt restrained by the rigidity of baking. To me, cooking allowed for more creativity and improvisation (and I could add extra garlic or hot sauce to almost everything without serious consequence).

Conversely, I learned the hard way that skipping an egg in a cake recipe can seriously impact how it turns out; that baking soda and baking powder are two very different things; and that granulated sugar isn't a substitute for confectioner's sugar, especially when it comes to buttercream frosting.

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