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At Love From the Oven, you’ll find a blog full of heartful blog posts. Christi’s baking blog is full of recipes and ideas for amazing treats that will make your stomach and heart sing. Now, I know that that heartful is not a real word, but it should be because it describes this blog and it’s author so well. Christi has a heart of gold and definitely knows that way to my stomach! If you can’t find enough creations on Love From the Oven to get your stomach rumbling, then you can also find her on Tip Junkie sharing fun tutorials, like how to make S’mores Pops. Let’s give Christi a warm SITS welcome.
Tell us about your blog. How did you decide to start a baking blog?
Love From The Oven is where I share my recipes, ideas, favorite baking products and all of the amazing baked goods I find that other bakers and bloggers create. I’ve been blogging for over five years, baking for as long as I can remember, and finally decided to put the two together. I started Love From The Oven as a way to keep track of my recipes and to show others that they too can create baked goods. Many of my friends are somewhat intimidated by baking and I am always trying to tell and show them that it’s really easier than they think. Chocolate covered pretzels are one of my most requested treats and people are surprised to see how easy they are to make. I really believe that baking should be fun, and my hope is that through my blog I can convey that to others and encourage them to try making something new.
When was your love of baking born? What was the first thing you ever baked?
I started “helping” in the kitchen as soon as I could stand on a stool and hold a spoon. Growing up I have fond memories of my grandmother’s baked goods on holidays and my little blue Holly Hobbie Easy Bake Oven. Chocolate chip cookies were probably the first treat I helped create and were the one that I remember making most often. My grandmothers were great at letting the kids help out in the kitchen, and I remember being so proud to say “I helped make that!”.
What is your favorite thing to bake?
I think my favorite thing to bake is muffins. I’ve worked hard to develop muffin recipes that my extremely picky eaters think are delicious, yet also pack a nutritious punch. My muffin recipes are probably my most personal recipes as they were made with my daughters in mind and are what they eat for breakfast each day. They aren’t the most glamorous recipes, but they are the ones I make the most and am probably the proudest of. I often hear my daughter telling her friends about the “great muffins my mom makes” – I can’t ask for anything better than that.
What is your best kept baking secret that you can share with us?
I’m not sure that it’s a secret but if I had one bit of information I like to share it’s that baking should be FUN. I’m not a technical baker, I play with recipes all the time, rarely adhere to them strictly and would probably fail “how to measure ingredients 101”. When I bake I want to have fun, not solve fractions. Sure, if you are making Baked Alaska you probably should stick to the recipe word for word, but if you are making cookies, feel free to get creative. I work with what I have – if a recipe calls for sour cream and all I have in the fridge is vanilla yogurt, I’ll use the yogurt, and the overwhelming majority of the time it works out great. Don’t like milk chocolate? Go with the dark. I have friends who sometimes get stressed about making small changes or trying something different, and all I can think is it’s buttercream frosting, it’s not rocket science – even if it’s not perfect it will most likely still taste great – it’s butter and sugar! My one epic baking failure was my first Christmas in college when I used an entire box of paraffin wax when I was supposed to only use a block, and I ended up making what would best be described as chocolate flavored candles. They may not have been edible but they were worth the laugh!
Semi sweet or White Chocolate?
Semi-sweet please!
Favorite Posts:
Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins: I truly believe that if I made these muffins on a regular basis that my son would NEVER leave home.
Cookies & Cream Brownies: This recipe looks amazingly rich.
Cupcake Cake Pops: Ever wondered how to make those cute Cake Pops? Well wonder no more. This takes them a step further, too.
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These look delicious!
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wow.. i did tried to bake once, i still have the interest i just don’t have the time.. i am truly a cake lover person!… btw, those red M&Ms is one of my guilty pleasures!
Those cupcakes look so cute and tasty!
Having IT problems so I’m just now going back and checking out some of the featured bloggers…Congrats on being featured. I think baking is difficult and something that I’m always trying to get better at. You seem to have a handle on it and I can’t wait to try your recipes!
Love it!
Lindsay
My stomach is growling just looking at all of those pics!
It looks delicious! I think I forgot to comment on the day you were featured. Congrats!
I love muffins and brownies and baking blogs! Everything looks delicious!
oh my…so many yummy things!! I don’t know if I can visit – it might be dangerous!
wm
I tried really hard to leave a comment here yesterday and the day before, but the site didn’t like me for some reason. Anyway, sorry I’m late, but I wanted to say that I love to bake and I must learn how to make cake pops! Seems like the thing to beat the winter blahs that will be coming to Seattle all too soon. : )
Love your recipes and ideas. Thank you so much for sharing.
Love your recipes and ideas. Thank you so much for sharing.
Bad bad bad!! I am not nly on a diet, we don’t eat white sugar or desserts anymore because we eat raw and healthy – and looking at her AMAZING pictures are hard… and so delightful! Look at all that chocolate… gimmie gimmie gimmie.. NO NO, stop that! Oh please please please? You can’t. But I wanna. Yes, I’m talking to myself. Why do you ask?
I love food blogs too 🙂
Looking forward to trying some of these yummy recipes! I’m always looking for nutritional goodies to make for my kids too.
OMG!!! This is amazing. It all looks so delicious! Can’t wait to go to your blog and start reading. I think I found my new favorite blogger. =)
OMG those pictures are making me drool!
Oh my goodness, I did not know about your blog but now that I do, I am definitely coming back. I love to bake as well and it all started with my Grandma who baked all the time. We too have special family recipes and the whole deal. I also tell my mom (who also loves to bake) she should do a Gracie’s Favorites blog (my Grandma’s name was Grace) so I am going to send her here to inspire her and I am pretty positive we will be trying out your recipes. I am more of technical baker (Super Type A and all) but I really enjoy the inspiration to try other things (e.g, yogurt for sour cream), so thanks for the inspiration, i will be back and Happy SITS day to you! Was having a rough day but you beautiful pictures and the reminder that baking is “he artful” and inspiring gave me a warm fuzzy feeling I was needing, so thank you for that.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE a good baking blog!!
Oh heavens, I should not have come here today… monthly cycles and cravings and all.
What delicious recipes and gorgeous pictures of them!
Your blog is so beautiful that I want to bake even though I really, really, really suck at it. Matter of fact, I’m so inspired, I’m going to Tweet you…! Love it..Love the colors and everything looks delicious.
Congrats! Wow – this is a very dangerous blog for me. I love baking, and I love eating baked goods! Your photos are beautiful, too! Can’t wait to try some of your recipes. 🙂
Love the blog! Love the recipes! L.O.V.E. the Pictures!!!!
Thanks Kristen!
One word comes to mind. YUM!
Lovely!
Looks yummy!
Yummy! I will definitely mention this site on my blog!
Oh you know how much I love seeing a food blogger! And banana chocolate chip muffins – Loved by all in my house. And I like her healthy add-ins.
These desserts look delish & you can tell they are made with love!
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Happy SITS Day!
Oh yummy….my mouth is watering. Always thrilled when the SITS girls feature a creative food blogger!
Jenn/Rook No. 17
I am drooling on the keyboard.
I love, love, love good baking blogs. Colorful photography, mouth-watering ideas. Love it all.
Okay seriously!? You post this now when all I can think of is when I’m trying to keep myself AWAY from the snack machine at work?! 🙂 These pictures (and recipes) look delicious. I am always intimidated when it comes to baking for no good reason whatsoever. I guess it’s because I know the measurements have to be far more exact than cooking but I shouldn’t allow this to deter me any longer. Off to check out her beautiful blog now.
Hope you’re all having a wonderful week! XOXO
Thanks Charolotte! Really – I promise things don’t have to be totally precise. Most of my recipes are very simple – I’m too disorganized to do anything complex! 🙂
Drool, drool and drool some more. The photos are amazing and those recipes are mouth watering. Can’t wait to check out the blog!
Maria xx
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Yum… those pictures look delicious!
all those goodies are making me drool!
There is some serious YUM going on over at your site! Love it!
What a fun blog!
Happy SITS day!
Oh my gosh, just had lunch and could use a baked treat right about now….All look sooo good!
WHO does not love food blogs.. especially ones so colorful and nice as yours.. mine needs a overhaul.. love your ideas.. the push pop things are all the rage.. and I have not tried one yet.. maybe for valentines day I will…. for my son’s teachers.. where do you buy them??? michaels? are you on facebook.. I can’t get your blog page to open… happy sits day.
LisaRenee
Hi Lisa – I get my pushpop containers from CupKate’s Event Designs – https://www.cupkateseventdesign.com/. I am on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/pages/Love-From-The-Oven/126165054119223. Hopefully you can get through on the website as well. 🙂
I love your approach to baking and your blog looks so fun- I can’t wait to go check it out. I’ve also been searching for a good, semi-healthy muffin recipe for breakfasts, so I am super excited to see you’ve created a recipe…yay!
Thanks so much! Another thing I like about the muffins is that they freeze and re-heat very well. I usually put a few of the fresh ones in the fridge and freeze the rest. My eight year old gets hers and pops it in the microwave in the morning – quick, easy and healthy breakfast.
Yeah, I love food blogs. Especially since I’m looking for great nutritious muffin recipes to make for my kids. I too want it pack some nutritious punch!
Hopefully you can find a recipe that works for you. My kids are ridiculously picky eaters, so my muffin recipes have to get their thumbs up (and not all do, trust me!). I just posed a new pumpkin banana muffin recipe today – a veggie and a fruit!
So much fun to discover new great recipes! Looking forward to checking out her blog!
Your favorite thing to bake is muffins?? What luck! My favorite thing to eat is muffins!
We’d make a great team then! 🙂