By the way, just in case this helps someone…
COOKING — creativity is okay.
BAKING — best to stick to the recipe (though you can adjust the sugar amount to personal taste)
BREAD — wait for the right weather conditions and be one confident and assertive mofo because dough can *feel* it when you aren’t. A blood sacrifice probably helps. Trust the gods.
PASTRY — your god is dead, the god of gluten and madness is risen, abandon all hope ye who enter here.
@GaryPoole It's a Nilla Wafer, but it's the size of your head.