Baking fascinates me. Not only do I enjoy the act of making treats, I will also spend hours looking at cookbooks and reading every single recipe and thinking about what to make and how to make it. I often try to encourage my parents to go through the cookbooks with me, commenting on every recipe and listening to me read the instructions. (I can't imagine why they object to spending their evening this way!) The chemistry of baking interests me as well, learning why things rise, how the sugar/water ratio determines if something is a syrup or a caramel, or why chocolate always changes the bake more than any other flavor.
I would love to dedicate even more time to baking, but two things are stopping me, time constraints and the fact that my three person family can only eat so much dessert. Time constraints (mainly school/homework related) mean there are entire weeks during which I make nothing, hindering my goal of both making as large a variety of bakes as possible and making some things enough I become an expert. Another goal of mine is to make a larger variety, learning how to make more kinds of pastry. There's not much of a market for that here, as people tend to want only bread/cake/cookies/pie (Americans (said with disgust)).
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