With a whopping 575k followers on Instagram, Sally McKenney from Sally’s Baking Addiction is the unofficial guru of baking. An author of three best-selling cookbooks, her online platform has become a trusted resource for fellow dessert lovers who are also eager to bake from scratch.
Incredibly enough, McKenney is entirely self-taught, admitting to being in the kitchen most of her life. “From a very young age, I watched my mom and grandma work their baking magic, and once I picked up my first mixing spoon, I was hooked!” she recalls on her website.
According to McKenney, she first launched her website in 2011 as a personal blog and an easy way to share baking recipes with friends and family. But just a year and a half later, she quit her full-time job to build Sally’s Baking Addiction into a business.
Now her blog and accompanying Instagram page offers hundreds of from-scratch recipes, alongside plenty of helpful kitchen tips, lessons on baking basics, step-by-step photos, and video tutorials that will encourage you to grow and have confidence in the kitchen.
And with fall in full bloom, she admits to being an avid pumpkin eater. “It’s my favorite flavor to bake with,” she shared in an interview with Bakepedia. “I eat it all year round, but we are coming into the season where people look for it… pies, breads, all kinds of desserts with pumpkin! And apple pie is my very favorite dessert, so you can look forward to variations of that.”
Grab a cookie, take a seat, and have fun skimming through her recipes!
