Sarah Kieffer, founder of The Vanilla Bean Blog, is a self-taught baker who has worked in professional bakeries and made the decision to become a home baker after her two children were born. Her work has been featured on Today and America’s Test Kitchen in The New York Times, Saveur, Pure Green Magazine, Food52, Mashable, The Kitchn, The Huffington Post, and Food + Wine, among others. She also contributes regularly and develops recipes for the websites Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, Food52, and Handmade Charlotte. When she’s not baking, she enjoys reading and rereading favorite books, spending time with her husband and two children, and drinking too much coffee.
