Hi, I'm Audrey! Self-taught baker, lifelong artist, and the person behind every recipe on this site.
About me
I came to baking the way most self-taught people do: experimentally, obsessively, and with a lot of sinking cakes and flat loaves.
It started in 2020 with layer cakes and eventually moved to sourdough (Breddie Mercury, my starter, is still going strong) and somewhere between the bread and the cookies and the cakes, I realized I was less interested in following recipes and more interested in understanding why they work.
I bought a book on the science of baking and studied it religiously until it all finally made sense to me. (pic of me in 2021 in front of my oven in South Carolina)
That curiosity is what Kneaded That is built around. Every recipe here comes with the reasoning behind it — the technique, the swap, the thing that actually makes it better. Because knowing the why is what turns a good bake into a repeatable one.
About Kneaded That
You'll find layer cakes worth the effort, crumb bars in every flavor (the Everything's a Crumb Bar series has taken on a life of its own), sourdough discard recipes that actually do your starter justice, and the occasional bread that will impress everyone at the table — including you.
What connects all of it isn't an ingredient or a dietary philosophy. It's an aesthetic — colorful, a little ambitious, and made to look like it took longer than it did.
A Little Background On Me
Before I was a baker, I was a painter and sketch artist, and that's still true. The way I think about a recipe isn't that different from how I think about a canvas — composition, color, contrast, creativity. It's why the visual side of baking matters so much to me, and why I'll never stop caring about how a crumb looks on camera.
I'm glad you're here!!
— Audrey