Food writer Samantha Seneviratne believes that cooking is a necessity but baking is a choice.
In her latest cookbook, "The Joys of Baking," she writes about how baking has become a powerful form of therapy for her, helping her deal with the challenges in life. "The recipes tell the stories of how I fell, how I rose, what I baked and what it meant," she says in the book's introduction.
The recipes are organized around five themes: Courage, Grace, Bliss, Love and Wisdom. From the Wisdom chapter, her Apple Snack Cake makes good use of leftover or blemished apples.
