Pies under the baking skill

"vancanuckfan86;d-992220" wrote:
Does anyone else wish they would add Baking to the base game in a patch and move all the pies, cakes, etc. to the baking skill. I love that we have pie and pudding and such in the game now but I'd love to see them under the baking skill.

I wish they would do something with Baking. It's so weird to me that half the pies and cakes are under baking and half are under cooking. I have to go searching every single time.

Yes, I'd love this.

I love the baking skill and have had several sims run very lucrative and successful bakeries. I love how the baked goods can be decorated in multiple different ways by sims who have enough skill. I love how they use a variety of harvestables from the basegame. But yes, it is annoying that all sorts of recipes for pastries and baked goods are spread haphazardly through all three food-related skills.

Almond macaroons (cookies) appear in Gourmet Cooking as do several other desserts. Other cakes, like Wedding or Birthday Cakes, appear under Cooking, while a number of scones, bars and pastries are found under Baking. It would be nice if there were some rhyme or reason to how it was organized, like if most baked goods or anything with a pastry crust was located under Baking, while the difficult cakes and treats were under Gourmet Cooking, and the ordinary homestyle cooking only had the relatively easy desserts and the possible birthday cakes. Or else everything sweet could be in its own menu or something even if the recipes belonged to different skills. (I also wish that cupcakes could be baked in an ordinary oven and that horrible monstrous eyesore of a machine could be dispensed with forever)

On a separate but related matter, has anyone tried baking one of the pies from Get Together, like the Banana Cream pie or the Exotic Fruit Pie, or the Fish Pie, and entered it in the Fenwick Fair Pie Contest? I am just wondering if these pies even register or count in the competition, or if anyone has managed to win a ribbon with one of them.

"simfriend1968;c-17941580" wrote:

On a separate but related matter, has anyone tried baking one of the pies from Get Together, like the Banana Cream pie or the Exotic Fruit Pie, or the Fish Pie, and entered it in the Fenwick Fair Pie Contest? I am just wondering if these pies even register or count in the competition, or if anyone has managed to win a ribbon with one of them.

I can only speak to the Fish Pie, but apparently they can. Some random townie entered a normal Fish Pie that was the only competitor for my excellent Pumpkin Pie, and I still came in third place, somehow. Yes, I'm still bitter about it. :D

"simfriend1968;c-17941580" wrote:
On a separate but related matter, has anyone tried baking one of the pies from Get Together, like the Banana Cream pie or the Exotic Fruit Pie, or the Fish Pie, and entered it in the Fenwick Fair Pie Contest? I am just wondering if these pies even register or count in the competition, or if anyone has managed to win a ribbon with one of them.

Yep. I entered a Banana Cream pie and it won first prize :) I didnt have raspberries, blueberries or the meat substitute as of yet so thought Id just give it a shot. It worked!

It's bizarre they didn't add it with this pack, given all the baked goods in Cottage Living

I would be fine with them moving baking to base game as long as the recipes from get work stayed exclusive to that pack. It would make more sense.

I'd like this too. I don't think anyone with GTW would mind the baking skill being added to the base game. :smile:

My problem with baking is that when I had someone going for level 10 in it and baking at home that the fridge was stuffed with baking and I don't want my sims to just eat desserts all the time or only bake in a store. Tried having a separate fridge but that didn't really work out but I still would hope for some sort of resolution to the whole jumble of recipes.

I know it takes some value away from GTW, but I would love Baking to be BG for organisational reasons.

I'd also love to be able to decorate the BG cakes for more birthday/wedding cake variety and iced/frosted versions of BG cookies etc.

Hopefully they can update GTW in the future by improving retail gameplay, adding K9 units to the detective career (C&D crossover), links between criminals and lawyers (DU crossover), maybe an active criminal career, doing more with Sixam, Magnolia Promenade and career neighbourhoods like adding market stalls etc.