Pies under the baking skill

"EmmaVane;c-17941799" wrote:
I know it takes some value away from GTW, but I would love Baking to be BG for organisational reasons.

they could just introduce the baking skill to BG, but keep most of the recipes locked to GTW.

Yeah, keep the recipes in their original pack, but the BG cakes, cookies, bread and pastries can all fall under the baking skill, along with the ability to decorate things etc that come with the skill.

Things from other packs too, like the CoL milk bread or the JA pastries.

I agree with this. It’s so frustrating that everything is under the Cooking tab when it’s a baking item.

There's a few things under Baking that I'd switch to Cooking too, such as Shepherd's Pie. I don't consider that baked goods.

That would be awesome and that's exactly where they belong! You don't cook a cake or a pie, or cookies, muffins or cupcakes. You BAKE them. I would be thrilled were this to happen. Please, EA, it would also make it so much easier to find items, too. :)

I would love for cakes and pies to be under baking instead of cooking. It just doesn't make sense the way it works now.

I wouldn't mind if it meant making this skill base game. The get to work recipes can stay exclusive to the pack.

Oh and while they are at it, birthday cakes should be available of the grid as well.

"Yolee;c-17941636" wrote:

"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!

Okay I am back to report that I tried having my sim enter a pie she made with the Baking skill in a pie competition. She entered a Fruit Pie (she is only at level 3 in the Baking Skill although she has maxed out Cooking and Gourmet Cooking) of excellent quality in the competition and got a third place ribbon (sigh). Her entry came behind a pumpkin pie and a blueberry pie, also of excellent quality. I wonder if the fact that her pie only required level 3 baking (even though it was of high quality) counted against her? In slightly better news, her perfect quality oversized pumpkin (which was pretty big in weight as well, the heaviest vegetable there) got a second place ribbon.

I am going to try again with a pumpkin pie or chocolate pie, or something baked that comes from this EP. Then, when her baking skill is higher, I'll try having her submit a Banana Cream Pie or an Exotic Fruit Pie from that list, and see if she can win with it.

Most of all, it's too bad that the sims can't eat the pies, and perhaps squabble about whose pie tastes the best and praise or insult the other pies. My sim had a great time at the fair, meeting all the locals (and I was delighted to see that it was only sims from Henford who were there), but the real downside was that there is nothing for them to eat. The developers ought at the very least to have included a food stall with the local recipes and a couple of picnic tables to make it feel more fair like. I have never in my life been to a County Fair where there wasn't a ton of really delicious food for the patrons, alongside all the baked goods and veggies that were in the competition. Since most Festivals in the game already come with food of some kind (even the small ones in Sulani), I cannot understand this oversight at all.

"simfriend1968;c-17942274" wrote:


Most of all, it's too bad that the sims can't eat the pies, and perhaps squabble about whose pie tastes the best and praise or insult the other pies. My sim had a great time at the fair, meeting all the locals (and I was delighted to see that it was only sims from Henford who were there), but the real downside was that there is nothing for them to eat. The developers ought at the very least to have included a food stall with the local recipes and a couple of picnic tables to make it feel more fair like. I have never in my life been to a County Fair where there wasn't a ton of really delicious food for the patrons, alongside all the baked goods and veggies that were in the competition. Since most Festivals in the game already come with food of some kind (even the small ones in Sulani), I cannot understand this oversight at all.

I wish we had a way to edit the surrounding world. That food stall with the mushy peas, fish and chips, etc., from Discover University, would be perfect here. Or they could have made a new version of it for the pack with the addition of slices from a couple of the new pies. But I guess the reasoning was probably just that they want you to go in the pub to buy food instead, or to purchase the discounted items at the grocery and garden stalls.

That reminds me... can we still not add the dishes from the DU food stalls to restaurants? I haven't checked in a long time, but that was so disappointing.

I agree about baking being added to base game, I think it should be available to everyone and then recipes can be added with packs and those could then be exclusive to their pack. I also wish we could add candles to pies for birthdays. I make my son pies for his birthday because he doesn’t like cake.

Along with agreeing about baking, I would also like them to do more with mixology. I would like the ability to create more customized cocktails or to have an update of some new options.