FROM THE KITCHENS OF:
THE BRUNETTE BAKER
BUTTER AND BRIOCHE
BRIAN STAFFIELD
JENNY JACK is completely and irrevocably in love with food.
A self-confessed sugar addict, she is the baker, food fluffer,
photographer and sarcastic writer behind the blog,
The Brunette Baker.
At the age of thirteen, Jenny fell in love with the culinary arts
after her Home Economics teacher told her she’d made the
prettiest cheese balls she’d ever seen. At fifteen, she was
jotting down recipes on the back of her homework and
recreating them as the pros on television taught her. She’s
still convinced to this day that her calculus teacher’s sudden
weight gain was down to her. By seventeen, she was
waitressing and baking desserts alongside a pastry chef at a local fine dining
restaurant, to whom she credits (and blames) her love affair of all sugar-laden
decadence.
Although she pursued a different career path, the niggling feeling to work with
food never fell silent.
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She originally created her blog in January 2011 to document recipes with
step-by-step tutorials to show complaining friends that baking isn’t as difficult as
they deem it to be. It also served double duty as an online recipe journal for her
kids to reference time and time again. “My Mom has made some delicious
creations over the years, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked her to
‘Show me this’ or ’How did you do that?’ She couldn’t remember what she did
to make something that was good into fantastic. And her Pecan Sticky Buns
would haunt your mind for days!”
Four years on, Jenny had no idea the incredible friendships and opportunities the
world of blogging would bring her.
She is currently enrolled in culinary school with the dreams of one day working in
a test kitchen.
She lives outside Toronto with her superhero husband and two hilarious kids.