.......and so it begins......

Okay – set the scene. It’s a Saturday afternoon, the house is clean, the pets are fed, you’ve maxed out your credit card and your feet are killing from all the shopping you’ve just done. You’ve got a two hour gap in your schedule before your so called other half is home and you have to start cleaning the kids, cleaning the pets, and walking endless circles picking up after the male species -  the question is, how do you fill your two hours? I know what I’d do, I’d hot foot it to the kitchen, close the door behind me and bury my nose in recipe books until something jumped out the pages at me. That, my friends, was before i discovered my love for baking blogs, seriously, these things are like baking gold dust..........well, some of them are like gold dust, and others are, well........without being disrespectful, hard to follow, hard to picture, and sometimes, hard to pronounce. This might just be me and my baking ability, but I’m sure I’m not the only relatively new comer to baking.......am i?
Don’t get me wrong, i love trawling through these blogs and drooling over the smooth macaroons with their protruding silky middles, the sticky glossy pudding and the intricate piping on five tier cakes, BUT in everyday life for a new baker, i think i need to walk before i run......i would say crawl....but, i put myself above a crawl, i have a year of cake making under my belt, so naturally....you know :o)
I feel like there arn't many blogs for us new bakers out there, nothing where we can all trudge down the sweet & sticky path of baking together, almost everybody in the blogging world has been to Paris and expensive city restaurants, they have been to pastry schools and run their own businesses....let’s be honest, that is the dream and i can’t take that away from anyone, and I’m not trying too....the whole point of T-Cakery is to start at the bottom, honing my baking skills along the way, testing new methods, baking new things, learning new techniques and sharing these with you all, i know that some of you will be new bakers too and i think blogging from the bottom of this enormous task with all the up’s and down’s will relate to more of you than starting at the top............well, that’s what i look for in a blog, so hope you will all follow me on my journey, and share your stories with me on the way!!!