Learn to Bake in 5 Easy Recipes

The poet Emily Dickinson was an avid baker, and, on the back of a recipe card for coconut cake, she wrote these opening lines:The Things that never can come back, are several —Childhood — some forms of Hope — the Dead —But while her gifts as a poet are clear here, she expresses the opposite of what baking can do. A birthday cake brings back the joy of childhood, maybe even raises hope, and baking beloved recipes…