Hello world!
Welcome to I Hope There’s Dessert – a baking blog for all types of tasty treats and decadent desserts.
If you’re looking for a blog with the internet’s best photography, extremely complicated recipes that you cannot reproduce, and desserts that look awesome because they are covered in fondant but ultimately taste terrible, you’ve come to the wrong place.
Here, you’ll find everything from rich chocolate cakes that you won’t be able to move after eating a slice of (except to maybe cut another slice), to buttery biscuits that go great with tea, and just about everything in between. You’ll find classic recipes, new takes on old classics, and just new and cool and fun recipes in general. You’ll find detailed guides and tips & tricks of how to make these desserts in your actual kitchen, and you’ll find sub-par photography (I’m trying my best here…….).
But just who am I?
My name is Mark, and by day I’m an accountant. But by night? By night I’m a dreamer.
I was always fascinated with cooking. My mom would give me free range of the kitchen as a kid, and I would make up crazy concoctions- milk, water, raw eggs, flour, cinnamon, etc. (Now that I type that out, it sounds strangely like a cake recipe….weird). I’d stir them with a whisk in large and small bowls – abiding by her only rule which was I couldn’t eat what I made. It was the creativity that I loved – I could get inspired by the seasons and the weather.
Now as an adult, I live in a house in the good ‘ol state of New Jersey with a kitchen that I wish was bigger and nicer than it is. I’m an aspiring baker and avid foodie – one that thinks he’s too cool for those baking shows on TV. I strangely don’t taste sour (anything), and so I pay a lot of attention to combinations of flavors and textures of foods that you may seem a little strange at first. I don’t have professional equipment, and I don’t have an expensive camera. I, like you, make do with what I have. (One time, I didn’t have a pastry bag, and so I used the bag that a loaf of bread was in. It worked just fine!). I believe in a simpler time when people enjoyed what the ate and didn’t rush through meals. I’m concerned about the healthiness of my food, but I also think that dessert isn’t meant to be eaten every day. Once in awhile, it’s okay to indulge.
So have a look around. Find a recipe that you like, try it out, and leave comments/suggestions!
Yours in baking,
-Mark Buryk