About me 

Meet Claere! 

Hi my name is Claere.  I'm a teenage girl living in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. I'm a self taught baker/cook and food photographer. I have always loved cooking. 

When I was younger, I would help with christmas baking and cookie decorating. I would help in the kitchen curiously watching my mom cook something yummy with great interest. I always had an interest in food prep and baking. 

I enjoy baking healthy snacks. Muffins in particular. As well as healthy meals that are vegetarian and dairy free. I am a vegetarian myself and am not able to eat dairy so all of those restrictions are incorporated in my baking. 

I bake and cook as much as I can. Whenever I have time I will be recipe developping, making dinner or whipping up a snack in the oven. I always try finding a way to make something, typically distributing it to the neighborhood afterwards. 

I also enjoy singing, playing guitar, going on walks with my dogs, reading and drawing. But during the school year I am fairly busy so I do my baking on the weekends when I have free time and need to make a snack for the week. 

My Path To Baking 

It all started summer 2020 when everybody was in lockdown due to COVID19.  I wanted something fun to do because I was not able to see my friends or really do anything. I wanted a new hobby. My parents suggested baking. At first I was hesitant. But then I made a batch of cookies to see if I liked baking a lot or if it was not for me. Turns out I loved it. I loved doing the baking and trying the after result. So, I kept on baking and baking more and more things. I kept baking for about a year until I started struggling with body image problems. I started obsessing over food and what I was eating. I categorized things as healthy or unhealthy. No in between. It just kept getting worse and worse. I started starving myself. Eating very, very little food. I struggled through about 6 months of starvation. In January 2022 I decided I wanted to do something about it. I started making my own recipes. I wanted to know what was going into the food  I was eating. So, I wanted to make up what went into my food. I started to love food again. I started trying my recipes and building a better relationship with food again. Up until now, things have been steady and I am getting better with food again. Not like it used to be, but I love baking and cooking now. 

Why "Magic Moon Baking"?