I am a mother of two, a girl and a boy respectively, as well as a stay-at-home mom. I live to make my family happy and do so a lot by baking and cooking for them. I bake as a hobby, so dieting is kind of hard. I have cut back for our house, but still bake for others. I enjoy decorating cakes using the decorating kits along with candies, toys, and other things to make cakes for my kids' and family's and friends' birthdays and such. My mom would always make what we just called the "candies" around Christmas time every year. They are to die for and just as bad for you! My mom has since stopped making them since they took too much time and just tire her out. I have taken her spot and have actually made 100 of them for my brother as his Christmas present a couple of years. When my husband starting working at his last job they had a company Chili Cook-Off. There was a dessert category so my husband entered it and asked me to make his favorite coconut cake. He had only worked there maybe a month and took first place above others that entered it every year for years! I got the trophy and prize money for it. Since then I have been asked to make cakes for others along with cookies, brownies, etc. I have also made a few batches of brownies for church where they were auctioned to raise money and each pan auctioned for no less than $20- FOR A PAN OF BROWNIES. I have had people tell me that their cakes and brownies just don't come out as moist and/or fluffy as mine (?). I also have people at my husband's work asking for recipes to the meals he's taking to work that are leftovers from the night before's supper based off how they smell when he heats them up in the breakroom. The last batch of cookies I made! The edges just browned too quickly. Other than that I don't really know. I made some jalapeno poppers the other day for Father's Day. My husband- who has never eated them- and his father- who LOVES them- said they were really good. I didn't like them and I normally love them.