Hi, I’m Stacey,
I’m a mother, designer, and passionate self-taught baker.

I began baking as a little girl in our farmhouse kitchen with my mother. We weren’t really allowed to have sugar unless we baked something and so my brother and I baked a lot! Later I lost touch with the love for baking and was more of a gluten enthusiast, traveling around the world and drooling on the display cases at Ladurée and Lenôtre in Paris.

I didn’t do a deep-dive back into the sweet white powder till I was a mother of two. I was under the cloud of postpartum anxiety, desperately needing an outlet that didn’t mean I had to get kids in the car and leave the house. My first big milestone commitment was purchasing my Kitchenaid mixer and then I just went deep and started ordering 50lb bags of flour and making everything I watched on the Great British Bake-Off.

I do LOVE me some pastries but I also am concerned with quality and health. I spend a lot of my shopping time researching and procuring organic, origin traced flour and ingredients like chocolate that are as ethical as possible while being high quality. It’s not easy! Most baking shops are full of paraffin filled fake cake decorating bits and artificial colors and mystery syrups. So I guess my bakes won’t be day-glo cupcakes with unicorn horns.

So how did I end up on social media? Four years later, the pandemic hit, grocery store shelves were bare and everyone was driving up my driveway to get flour from me. I started going live on Facebook teaching family and friends how to bake. After requests to do more easily accessible live bakes away from FB I started an Instagram called Gluten Positive. I named it that because gluten gets a bad rap!Gluten is MAGIC people. Unless you are allergic, I say, embrace the fairy dust and and run naked with the laminated pasties. AmIright?