09/02/2026
Itβs been a minute since Iβve introduced myself. There are a lot of you here now, following, ordering, and supporting. Probably time to say hi!
Iβm Laura.
By day, Iβm a Manager of Instructional Design, which is a fancy corporate way of saying I spend my workdays figuring out how to help people learn things, organize information, and occasionally make sense of chaos.
By night⦠I make friends with wild yeast.
Iβm married, I have three kids, and apparently I looked at an already-full life and thought, βYou know what this needs? A small sourdough bakery.β
Because apparently I enjoy hobbies that require feeding something every day, watching the weather, obsessively checking dough temperature, and questioning my life choices at 10:47 p.m. while staring into the oven.
And hereβs the thing about Whitton Dough Den:
I wear ALL the hats.
Iβm the baker.
Iβm the recipe developer.
Iβm the mixer-loader and dough-shaper.
Iβm quality control.
Iβm the person washing approximately 900 mixing bowls.
Iβm marketing.
Iβm social media.
Iβm photography.
Iβm packaging.
Iβm customer service.
Iβm inventory.
Iβm ordering supplies.
Iβm the person making labels and packing orders.
I do have help taste-testing! π
Basically, if something happens at Whitton Dough Den, thereβs a very good chance itβs me.
I started baking sourdough because I loved it.
Then I started giving it to people.
Then people started asking to buy it.
And somehow that turned into Whitton Dough Den.
Iβm still kind of amazed by that.
Iβm not a professional baker who grew up knowing how to make perfect loaves. Iβm a working mom with a corporate career, a busy family, approximately 47 things on my mental to-do list at any given moment, and an unreasonable desire to make really, really good bread.
Iβm also my own harshest critic. If a loaf comes out slightly flatter than I wanted, you better believe Iβm going to stare at it like it personally betrayed me.
But thatβs also what I love about sourdough.
Itβs never exactly the same. Wild yeast has opinions. Weather has opinions. Flour has opinions. Apparently even I have opinions.
And somehow, in the middle of all that unpredictability, something really beautiful comes out of the oven.
So that's me.
Mom. Wife. Instructional Design Manager. Sourdough enthusiast. Chronic overthinker. Flour-covered kitchen menace. Baker. Marketer. Packer. Photographer. Dishwasher. One-woman bakery department.
And the person behind every loaf, bagel, muffin, cookie, and slightly-too-obsessed-over sourdough experiment that comes out of the Den.
Thanks for being here. Thanks for trusting me with your breakfast, your snacks, your dinner table, and occasionally your carb cravings.
And if you ever see me staring intensely at a loaf in public, mind your business. Iβm probably evaluating the crumb.
