I'm Kalen. There are always puff pastry crumbs in my car. There are flour handprints all over my black pants. I get really excited in the kitchen sections of stores. Sometimes I eat cookies for breakfast. Sometimes I eat pastries for dinner. No joke!
I bake for all occasions. I bake when I'm bored, when I'm stressed out, when I'm happy, and when I wanna share some love. I love baking for other people and watching them enjoy it. My big splurge expenses usually involve making something different for my friends or for a party.
My mom bakes, my sister bakes, my grandma bakes, my aunt bakes. My sister and I were brought up licking the batter off of the beaters. I started getting more into baking in college, when I lived with 6 other girls, and 6 hungry boys lived upstairs. Post college I took a baking course, and now I'm an intern at a lovely bakery called Short Cake in Los Angeles.
I have more photos of food than I do of people. I'm obsessed with instagraming pretty much everything I eat or make, it gets annoying to those who are dining with me, because I likely won't let them eat until I photograph everything.
Macaroons and Macaroni is a place to share what I bake or cook and the many photos I take during the process. Enjoy!