I have always loved eating baked goods, but I never bothered making them myself until recently. It all started because of two things: 1) I watched Food, Inc. and decided that I had to be more responsible about what I ate. 2) It was my mom's birthday and my mom was telling me how her mom always made her a chocolate cake with white icing. So I tried to recreate this cake for my mom. That was my first adventure in baking something from scratch. And I have been doing it ever since.