Welcome to Kristen Loves Cookies! My name is Kristen Burgess, and I'm an amateur yet avid baker, here to share my favorite recipes and lessons learned 👩‍🍳 🍪

I grew up on a cattle ranch in Nebraska, and helping my mom prepare meals for my family and workers on the ranch was a part of life from a very early age. (Ranch cooking = I've been a wizard at frying pretty much any kind of meat or vegetable since the age of 9.)

I developed some basic baking skills early, too, but I never really challenged myself or experimented with baking until a few years ago.

It started with a Nutella shortbread recipe that a friend posted, and the next thing I knew, I was researching the intricacies of laminating dough to make croissants. I've been hooked ever since 🥐

I don't know if you've been on many baking blogs lately, but they tend to be exhausting/overwhelming messes; you have to scroll through miles of excessive explanations laden with ads and pop-ups. Even worse yet - many of these blogs plant cookies on your browser! (And not the tasty kind that we love here... the pesky kind that slow down your internet and spy on you and tell Mark Zuckerberg what kind of cookies to advertise to you.) I promise that Kristen Loves Cookies will always be ad-free and will only have the tastiest of cookies! 🍪✨

I am also a professional software engineer/web developer, and this site/app was baked from scratch with my own bare hands! (Okay, okay, I let ChatGPT get their hands in the dough a little, too.) If you're a nerd, you can check out the code base here. Submitting issues/features is very welcome! 🤓

You can also send questions or suggestions to kristenlovescookies@gmail.com.
Thanks for stopping by and happy baking! 🧑‍🍳✨

— Kristen