I am Bengali living with my husband in the UK. I am finishing a degree in Sociology but cooking is my biggest hobby! I love baking and making sweets. When I was a kid, my mother always said I have a hand for cakes and cookies (that is after she every time got over the shock of cleaning up the kitchen). I think baking is an art and for me it is one of the best ways to spend a few hours! I also love cooking Bengali and Indian dishes because of the magic of spices in them and the huge scope for creativity. Probably making a special cake for everyone's birthday with my mother. It is always the waffle cake with caramel and walnut filling and I still love it to tears. Has to be when I first made a chocolate truffle cake for my husband. It was pretty fancy and rich -loads of butter, chocolate, cream and eggs. He was really impressed and said it was better then his favourite shop cake! My first batch of lemon muffins... I will not go into detail, but let me just say they were flat as a table and what seemed like litres of oil kept oozing out of them!