Weight was too low, Started Baking

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Ever since I moved out of my parents house, my weight had started to drop. I was lethargic and moody because I wasn't getting enough calories. About a year ago, I decided to challenge myself to learn new skills and I decided to try to learn how to prepare my own food. REAL food, not the crappy instant meals I was living off of. As it turns out, I really like making cookies, cupcakes, and pies. I'm not an expert or anything, but it feels really nice to look back and see how my skills have slowly but surely improved over the past few months.
My weight has increased, and that's why I'm making this post; It's increased a bit too much. I've began exercising, push-ups, sit-ups, and squats every morning when I wake up. I also have a stationary bicycle i try to use everyday, but I'm still struggling with maintaining a healthy weight.
I want to keep improving my skills as a casual baker, how should I limit my food intake? I already try to give my finished products to friends, family, and work, is there anything else I could do to limit temptation?

Get an Easy Bake Oven, and get all the accessories that go with it. Just use normal recipes for cakes, biscuits etc. and divide the ingredients in grams (easiest) or ml or whatever by the amount of servings that recipe gives, so you can only do one or two servings at a time.

Also, a lot of the time, unless the bakery items have lots of eggs in them, you can usually just skip the egg so you don't have to put in a tiny bit of egg!

I found this, and buying all the accessories for the Easy Bake Oven (when the pound to the dollar was a lot higher) to be tremendous fun. You can make mini pies and pizzas too.

For instance, this (old and very rare) kit contains the right tray to bake four mini cupcakes. Look at the picture, these are tiny and adorable. I had such fun with this particular kit, it was worth every penny. It's my favourite.

The crappy bit is that it doesn't take a lot of baked goods to push you over the edge, weight-wise. It's just too many fast carbs.

I had to go gluten free and therefore had to learn to cook in a new way. After a year of eating crappy gluten free food I decided to make eating healthily a personal project, which turned into a special interest that's been with me ever since.

Now you've mastered baking, why don't you try to focus on improving your skills in the dinner and lunch and breakfast department?

Some inspiring blogs:

http://casayellow.com/

https://www.latartinegourmande.com/

http://thefirstmess.com/

http://bojongourmet.com/

http://whatshouldieatforbreakfasttoday.com/

I love cake, but sadly I can't think of a food that's more calorie dense, and less satiating at the same time. The key is moderation, no problem with eating a slice of cake, but if you're not mindfull, it's very easy to overindulge.

I don't have any tips on how though, I find cake hard to moderate, so I tend to pick other deserts like a bar of chocolate or some ice cream instead, cake just doesn't do it for me. I'll just end up eating the whole thing.

I freeze my baked goods and bring them to work to eat during lunch time.

I've been looking into preparing non-dessert foods, but most actual "meal" recipes have notes on them that say "Serves 4-6 people." I live alone. I'd only be preparing food once a week or so.
Ive thought of inviting people over to cook a meal for them, but while I can bake pretty good, my skills at actual meal prep are not consistently successful enough to make a good meal in little time.
Does anyone have any recipe resources that make one meal at a time?

EDIT: I just had an idea. I have a cat, normally I feed him regular dry food, but are there any pet food recipes for cats I could make to practice? I know that some people have taken the time to make recipes that are dog-safe, are there any that are also okay for cats? The more familiar I am with the tools used to make meals the more my skill will increase, and I don't think Sweetie will mind being a guinea pig.

I typically cut the recipe in half and cook meat dishes every day until it is all gone. Marinades are usually salty and preserve the food. Sort of like baking cookies, the actual cooking process isn't affected too much by the quantity you cook. If you don't like to eat the same thing every day, you could store the meat in the freezer after marinating it. I use plastic sandwich bags for this purpose. A day before I intend to cook it, I transfer it to a Corningware dish in the refrigerator to defrost. That way the marinade won't make a mess if the bag leakes. Corningware is very tough and resistant to accidents.

I suggest starting out with beef, as this meat tends to be the most forgiving of cooking errors. Pork and chicken need to be cooked properly to avoid disease. I use a cheap cooking thermometer to make sure food is properly cooked. Sometimes food cooks faster than I expect--if it has reached the proper temperature it is done.

I'm thinking of doing this tomorrow.

What I plan to do is brown off a steak, then add 1/2 a little saucepan of water, add salt and herbs, and cook it on a low heat for 2 hours.

Half an hour before serving, I'll boil some potatoes that have been cut up into small chunks.

Onto the plate with the spuds, slap the steak next to them, then drizzle over the reduced-down liquid from the steak, which will now be a nice gravy.

Anyone ever cook steak this way?

if you want to gain weight, you must do it in a healthy manner. there are fats that are healthy, like in peanut butter. don't gorge yourself with junk food in order to put on a few pounds–it may seem like a good idea, but you're just putting your body through hell by doing that. put on weight with healthy food. don't just eat everything you want!
calculate your TDEE to determine how many calories you can eat a day without gaining or losing weight, and begin to log everything you eat and the amount of calories everything contains. for a regular person, losing and gaining weight is as simple as eating below or above your TDEE. no exercise needed, really, unless you want to speed up the process of losing weight.
i suggest you invest in some healthy snack foods. almonds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, dark chocolate (70–90% cocoa, the lower the percentage the sweeter the taste), raisins, whole-grain crackers, fruit, etc.
eating healthily is super fun once you get into the swing of it!

Yes, I agree with Synthpop. Consider gaining weight the healthy way. However, it is totally okay to bake a delicious cake, cookies, or one of my favourites: an apple pie deluxe, as long as you don't eat it too often.

Muziek: apple pie deluxe?

Are you trying to make us posters hungry?

Haha, yes, Alita.

Apple pie deluxe: with liquor soaked raisins, the bottom covered with a sugar-almonds cream, and whipped cream on top of the pie.

Where do you live again?

OH! I love making apple pie. I've used raisins before to complement the filling, turns out great!
Normally I'm very sensitive to flavors and textures, so it's nice that I get to make my own food with only what I like.