If you like to bake, as I do, and you like to eat, as I also do, you often get asked "What is your favorite dessert?"
I rarely have an answer.
Sometimes I feel like the cool creaminess of ice cream, and I'm more in a bread pudding mode.
Sometimes the simple nostalgia of a chocolate chip cookie will do it for me, and other times I want something more elaborate, like a macaron.
Asking a baker to name her favorite dessert is like asking a mother to name her favorite child.
I'm not sure it can be done. However, I've always had a soft spot for gingerbread -- there's something so wholesome and old-fashioned about it.
The very notion of gingerbread e...