About Me
I’m Erin, and thank you for stopping by!
I am the author, baker, and photographer behind Butter and Bliss.
I started Butter and Bliss in 2019 as a personal baking blog while working in marketing and interior design. What started as a hobby has grown into a full-time career and has become a trusted source for small batch baking recipes with desserts featured on Taste of Home, The Spruce Eats, ELLE, Parade, and more!
I am a Colorado native where I live with my husband and a couple of the cutest Westies ever!
Sweet Beginnings
Most of my professional life has been spent in an office. From corporate marketing to running my own interior design business, nearly 20 years was behind a desk! To get relief (and get on my feet!) I would bake.
I’ll never forget the weekend in 2019 when I was introduced to British Bake Off. Can you believe I had never heard of it until then? I was so elated I found it and binge-watched it all weekend. Watching the bakers have fun while creating beautiful desserts was inspiring, and it was then that I decided to start chronicling what I was baking in a blog.
But Why Small Batch Baking
I quickly realized that standard-size desserts were just too much for a household of two (there are only so many cupcakes my husband and I can eat!). But, simply cutting a recipe in half may not always work.
So, I started researching and developing smaller-portion recipes better suited for two people. As a self-taught home baker, I immersed myself in baking courses and books to understand the fundamentals of baking, and devoted many hours to recipe testing to make sure the scaled-down results were delicious.
Along the way, I discovered the many benefits of small batch baking:
- fewer leftovers (built-in portion control 🙂 )
- variety (two – or three – desserts instead of just one)
- your ingredients – and budget – stretch further (when eggs are at a premium!)
- it is just plain easier!
And here we are – Butter and Bliss has grown into a blog full of hundreds of small batch recipes that have been researched, tested, made from-scratch, and made easy.
It’s All About The Desserts
I love dessert, it is my favorite course of the meal – unless french fries are involved. There is always a cookie, cake, or bowl of ice cream at the end of my meals, and it tastes so much better when it’s homemade!
With Butter and Bliss, I have the opportunity to keep my creative juices flowing. Dessert recipes offer variety and versatility and I love thinking of fun ways to pair flavors and ingredients – like lemon and matcha in a cookie, chocolate, and blackberry in a trifle, or vanilla, orange, and gingerbread in a cake.
Yes, I have the classics like a small 6-inch vanilla cake and a small batch of chocolate chip cookies. But there is so much more!
Erin’s Favorite Recipes
Click on the photos below to see what recipes are on repeat in the Butter and Bliss kitchen!
Variety Is The Spice Of Life
Or should I say the butter and sugar?! In 2022, I decided to give my immune system a break and focus on small batch gluten free desserts for the year. Talk about a fun challenge! To remove the stigma of bland gluten free desserts with treats that you’d never know are made without traditional flour. And while I’m back to a traditional diet, there are still gluten free desserts I make over and over. Like my gluten free lemon snowball cookies and gluten free pumpkin apple pie bars.
And you may even find a few healthy-ish dessert recipes on the blog! Occasionally you will see me sneak in maple syrup, coconut sugar, or coconut milk. Like my caramel sauce made with maple syrup, dairy-free strawberry ice cream, and dairy-free vanilla frosting. All just as tasty as the original!
A bit (more) About Me
- My degree is in interior design, with advanced certification in kitchen and batch design. I do love my kitchens!
- I’m a child of the 80’s and proud of it. Where’s all my Gen-X’ers at??!! 🙂
- I don’t like hot weather – it makes me angry. But, I LOVE tropical beach vacations. Something about the ocean breeze that makes it better. Or, maybe it’s the margaritas.
- My all-time favorite TV show is The Golden Girls. Hands down, the best.
- I live in Colorado but I don’t care for hiking, white-water rafting, or going to breweries. I do like to ski though.
- Pudding is my favorite dessert. Out of all the uber-fancy desserts out there, I simply love a good chocolate small batch pudding.
- I can easily eat a can of black olives in one sitting. No joke.
I hope you enjoy the blog and find a new small batch dessert (or two!) you’ll love. And if you’re new to the blog, be sure to check out my Welcome to Butter and Bliss page to help you get started on your small batch baking journey. I’m so grateful you’re here!
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