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WELCOME TO Baking with tradition

Where we bring joy to others through baking.

Baking is about building memories with your family. It’s about flour sprinkled counters and belly laughs that happen while you’re packing up cookies for a neighbor. It allows you to build traditions that’ll last generations and gives you opportunities to show hospitality to friends, neighbors, and strangers.

Hi there! I’m Elizabeth.

I’m a homeschool Mom of 4, classically trained violinist, lover of sewing, and home baker who’s been largely self-taught. I teach baking at my kids’ enrichment school once a week.

Most of my earliest memories are in the kitchen with my Mom and my Gram baking something. Gram often had a plate of her legendary chocolate sandwich cookies in the fridge, and it was at her table that I learned how to make evenly sized dough balls. Mom always gave me extra dough to play with which I shaped into crazy braids and twists. Since then, I’ve lost count of how many thousands of cookies I’ve baked. Weird but true: My pita bread, which I sold at the farmer’s market in college paid for ALL of my books at school, and I baked my own wedding cake (my own recipe: coconut chiffon with Chambord and raspberry jam, ganache, white chocolate transfers and Mom’s chocolate curls).

For me, baking is about carrying on our family history. I have German, Czech, and Polish roots, and the traditions around my heritage are dear to my heart.

when life gives you
apples, you should put them in your strudel

Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and writing about them, thinking about them, and sharing them with you.
–Maida Heatter

I think baking gets a bad rap for being hard or something that requires a ton of equipment to make good things. Yes, I hardly ever bake without my gram scale, and my Kitchen Aid has been with me for 30 years, but the truth is, the only thing you need to be a good baker is the willingness to try.

On Baking With Tradition, it’s my goal to share creative baking recipes that are rooted in rich heritage. I want to give you a set of recipes that feel like they come from a place, things that have a story attached to them. It’s the plate of brownies you set out to keep the conversation going. It’s that 20 layer baumkuchen with glorious ganache and sliced almonds on top you triumphantly cut for your Mom’s birthday.

There’s a quiet beauty–a graciousness and joy that you get to experience when you bake. My hope is that my recipes will inspire you to get in the kitchen, make a mess with flour, and start building your own memories with your family.