Keeping Up With Maritza

With a New Year come great ideas. What are your goals for this year? Would you like to try every recipe in a certain cook book? Would you like to take on making a three tier cake? I for one would like to accomplish what I have been putting off for a while. Finish my culinary degree. As a mother of two wonderful, but time consuming ( in a good way) kids, I have been actively pursuing my career. While I explored various careers, my true calling came when I was able to sign up for some cake decorating classes at my local crafts store. I have always loved baking and have become quite the "cakepop master". I will be posting pictures soon of all of the things I have created.

Hi everyone welcome to my blog. As an introduction I am a self-taught baker, cook, pastry chef, etc, etc. Most of my knowledge comes from hands on experience or if I simply feel like learning how to cook something I go at it. I am always watching the cooking channel and my extreme desire would be to participate in either a baker's challenge or a cook off with Bobby Flay. For that I need to really master a dish!  Thank you for taking the time to read this blog and I will make things interesting. Welcome to the interesting world of The Self-Taught Chef!