I'm a professional Illustrator with a taste for cooking as well. After all, cooking is just as much an art as drawing and painting. Desserts in general, though baking is probably my favorite of the dessert realm. I also enjoy preparing Asian food- Japanese curry is always a quick and easy dinner on a cold night. I'm 3/4 Italian so we have a lot of recipes that came down the pipe in the family. I know most by heart and can easily whip up some of my Mom's spaghetti and meatballs or eggplant parm. I've whipped up some pretty gorgeous cookies- with lemon buttercream icing to boot. And I one-manned a charity bake sale for a local no-kill animal shelter. It did amazingly well and I ran out of baked goods in the blink of an eye. My new apartment has a terrible oven! :( I found out the hard way that most everything I make in it doesn't come out right unless I do cupcakes or mini-bundt cakes. Also high altitude baking is a pain but I've gotten used to it, having lived in Colorado for so long.