BAKED BY DAN

Some of my fondest memories are baking cookies with my mom and mom-mom. I learned pretty early on that I could make anyone smile if I gave them a cookie, and the satisfaction that I've gotten from baking has grown stronger over time. Like many bakers, one of my first projects in the kitchen was to solve the mystery of the flat chocolate chip cookie. They just never seemed to look like the ones on the bag of chocolate chips. It was that hunger for perfection in the things that I baked that kept me in the kitchen. The stillness that I experienced in combining ingredients, and the joy that I shared with my family over a slice of cake is what fueled my passion.