Chuckling and shaking his head, Cass smiled at her compliment. "Well, I bake from scratch and I measure precisely, but my mom and dad would both say it's not in the ingredients, it's in the love you put into it. If you think of "love" as extra vanilla extract and lemon zest..." Cass leaned back and finished off the rest of the batch easily enough. "It's also experience, I've been baking since I was about ten. It's a family thing. My brother's a chef, my dad went to culinary school for a while, and my mom learned all the vegetarian ways of baking and cooking from her mom, and... well... yeah." He poured a glass of milk for himself and offered one to Abby.