Get to know me...

Hello,
my name is Carys, I'm currently in the middle of my GCSE exams and working hard through the next few weeks until I finally see the back of my last exam. During the next month I will try and post as many posts as I can in between revision and other work, although I wont be very committed. However as soon as I have finished my last exam and my real study leave starts, this blog will be my main priority and I will be able to post whenever I want.
My posts will always be about my discoveries, experiments, achievements and even kitchen disasters concerning my baking. I will post pictures and evaluations of products that I make and I will share recipes and tips that I myself have tried and tested.
My inspiration for this blog comes from my love for baking, handed down to me from my Mam and other family members who have passed down old family recipes and secrets in the kitchen. My Mam, being the worlds best cook herself, encouraged me from a young age to get into the kitchen and help her with whatever I could do, and since then I have constricted my main interests to baking itself. I still often help with making dinners and helping out whenever I can in the kitchen, but I am often found whisking away in my own little world at every spare opportunity. My favourite place to be is in the kitchen, with the gentle rumble of the oven heating up and the smells that emit from the pots and pans scattered over the benches. Where I love my own company in the kitchen, I'm always thrilled to be joined by my close cousin Molly, 11 years old, who is always eager to help me with anything I am doing and is more than happy to learn some new techniques, although I have to say, with the way she's improving in the kitchen, I find myself asking her for the tips! When we are both free from work and revision, 'baking days' are usually how our weekends are spent; just the two of us and the kitchen, that's all we ever need.
Molly and I tend to plan each other's next birthday cake the day after the previous birthday, so we're always on top of our game and well planed when it comes to birthday cake surprises. I'll be sure to post some photo's of past birthday cakes that we've made for each other as well as some that I've made for other family members and friends.
So family and friends have always played a big part in my ever-growing hobby of baking, but school have also managed to contribute greatly to my enthusiasm. For my Food Technology GCSE, my class was landed with a very fitting and coincidental task brief. We could have been given any task in the world to do with the food industry, but fortunately the exam board gave us a task with the title 'Design a baked product to be sold in a supermarket bakery'. It was a coincidence that we got this task because it was just what I was hoping for. So over the past two years I have been designing, baking, developing and evaluating many different baked products ranging from bread and pastries to cakes and muffins. The chance to create so many different products and be able to evaluate them and change them simply boosted my interest in baking and inspired me to try out many different flavour and texture combinations, as well as helping me maintain my desire for all of my products to look appealing. I didn't only enjoy the practical side of the 2 year task, I also thoroughly enjoyed the theory side of it, hence my enthusiasm to start this blog before my exams have even finished.
So, I will try to continue to post as much as I can over the next few weeks, but I can guarantee that I will be updating you with many different baking achievements and disasters, as well as sharing old baking experiences and uploading pictures for you to see for yourself how good/bad I am at what I love, straight after my last exam. See you on the flip side. Wish me luck!