Don't mess with success...

Imagine walking down the aisles at the grocery store and not seeing any mixes for cake, brownies, muffins, pancakes, pudding, cookie dough, icing or any other desserts...you might be in the UK! I usually use mixes to bake (although I am capable of cooking without them) so imagine my surprise when I was looking for brownie mixes and cake mixes and instead of finding an aisle full of choices I only found one lousy cake mix.

I mentioned it to a few of my friends here and they quickly gave me a hard time about being an American and using mixes for everything...blah blah blah. Undaunted, I had Mom and Dad bring me over some Bisquick and have been bringing back cookie and brownie mixes with me. So far I have made pancakes for 2 groups of people and everybody loved them. And last night it was our group's turn to bring snacks for church so I baked brownies...everyone was raving about them!

Don't mess with success.

So I use a lot of mixes to bake- if everybody likes them what's the problem? I understand there are certainly merits to baking without them and there are plenty of amazing recipes that couldn't be accomplished with a mix but so far I'm getting along ok with my mixes. I can make it from scratch if need be. Maybe I'll start my own home-making empire like Martha Stewart.