Joy the Baker: Baking for Boys

If you haven't heard of Joy the Baker, you should quickly go visit her website! Besides having really whiz-bang photos of food, her entries are fun to read. Sometimes her perkiness is a little overwhelming (and that's saying something considering emotion seems to get diluted over the interweb), but I just suppress the cynic in me and read on. I'm usually pretty glad I read on by the end of her posts. But really, Joy the Baker is my go-to for finding new recipes. I love her recipe index--a quick browse and you could easily bookmark a dozen at least (M knows what I'm talking about...)!

Doesn't Joy have the cutest table cloth ever?!

All we need is to get some birdies to stomp their little feet around the pie's edges...

Drool-worth, right?

In her post Love and Sugar, she writes:
"There’s something happening in my email inbox.  I’ve gotten lots… and I mean LOTS of emails from you about what to bake for boys.

Boys in the dorm room down the hall from you, boys that you work with, boys that live far away from you, boys boys boys.

You people are crushin’  hard. I like this.  I say thumbs-up.  I say dive in, head first!… as long as you’re not diving into the shallow end, and you’ve waited an hour after eating, and you’re wearing your floaties… other than that… dive in!

Or just slip n slide it… but go for it.  It’s Spring, why not love somebody!?"

If you liked that excerpt, you'll love the rest of it! So visit her blog here to continue reading. And check out her recipes to pick up some fun baking ideas! I myself am eyeing that Apple Crisp...I'd make mine with a very large crisp to apple ratio.