It all began with fellow Virgo Claire Saffitz, who inspired me to become a Person Who Bakes their Own Bread. Since I started baking, I’ve tried focaccias, whole wheat bread, milk and honey oat loaves, Hokkaido milk bread and a few others. All of the pictures are on the blog. I made all of these when I was writing on another blog page, but since I made the switch I decided to start fresh.
I have overprooved, underprooved, over-watered, over-baked, and under-baked bread but I have also created the most beautiful, glorious loaves of bread (maybe I’m bias but you also weren’t here to experience this, so you can’t argue with me). I’ve learned that baking not just bread but anything requires so. much. energy. Seriously, the whole wheat bread I made (from BA’s best bread recipe) was an entire arm workout.
Going forward, I’ll post most of my baking here, as well as on my insta (@laurenattemptstobake) and you can follow along the ups and downs of trying to bake your own bread.
Lauren Attempts to Bake 