Hello there! Welcome to my kitchen. My name is Kari and I am a wife, dog mom, marketer by trade, and home baker. I live in Nashville with my husband and pup, Penny Lane. 

I always enjoyed baking growing up – making cookies at Christmas, pies in the fall, cupcakes for our birthdays. There’s even a video of me teaching my fifth grade class how to make my favorite chocolate chip cookies where I proudly declare that the salt used to make the cookies was not the same as the salt you put on the table. 🤦🏼‍♀️ My family has yet to let me live that one down. 

However, I started really getting into baking in the fall of 2020 – not because of Covid like everyone else, but because I started watching and fell in love with the Great British Baking Show. I loved the creativity of the bakers and watching normal people build these exquisite bakes with amazing flavors. Not only did I enjoy watching the feel-good show and listening to their lovely accents, but I learned something new in every episode. It made me think, “I could totally do that”.  And ever since I’ve been baking things I never thought possible. 

This blog will be a place to house my family recipes I’ve been collecting throughout the years as well as a place for me to test out recipes that I love and have tweaked a bit to make my own. I hope this blog can inspire other newbie bakers like myself to step out of your comfort zone and try something new. My bakes will not always have the prettiest presentation, but I can promise you they will taste delicious. (I like to consider my bakes to be substance over style 😉)

If you have any comments or questions, feel free to reach out at karibakesblog@gmail.com. I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

Happy Baking!