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Naturally leavened bread and pastries. Seasonally and locally driven. Central IL based.

10/09/2026

Sneaking a Harvest Time Cozy Pastry box into the calendar. Will include four pastries: citrus rye cinny roll, maple oat scone w/ apple butter, buckwheat banana bread w/ hazelnut crumble, tooth butter, & maple cinny sugar, and a roasted kabocha squash & cracked rye porridge scone w/ dark chocolate and Voss pecans. Pickup on the evening of Thursday, Oct 22nd at Cloud Mountain. Random, I know. But that’s the vibes (and capabilities) of a baker-at-large. Hotplate goes live on Sunday!

Enjoy this wicked fun first weekend of Spooktober! Fall Fusion festival in downtown Urbana. Ronny from Ronnette Chopp has been busting b***y to get the old Sipyard reopened, that’s happening. Folk & Roots performances all over. Farmers market. Art mart at Fithian Folk on Sunday. Yahoo.

09/23/2026

Fall comes in and suddenly I feel alive! So grateful it’s here. Looking back at these photos from last year’s Equinox dinner out at Delight Flower Farm | Maggie Taylor. A fat apple slab pie grazed upon in the middle of the flower fields. Some people just sat down in the grass amongst the flowers to eat. Idyllic. These type of collaborations are where it’s at for me. Hope the cool breezes are treating you all well!

09/09/2026

Did it take me damn near all day to make two pans of apple butter oat bars? You betcha. But there was deep joy wrapped up in getting to sing silly songs and make baby Russ laugh while he watched on in amazement.

Really took me back to cottage bakery moments with Malc where I was hoping the oven timer wasn’t gonna go off while I’m in the other room halfway through nursing him to sleep. It almost always did.

Got to use my favorite big yellow ceramic bowl for prep, batch size small enough I can still mix by hand. Trying to remember that this is the good life too. Been feeling a bit aNtSyyyy for days where I am a machine in a commercial kitchen again. All in good time.

09/03/2026

I’ve been leading baking workshops in various forms the past couple of years. Cookies, biscuits, muffins, cake decorating, pie dough, and sourdough bread! All using 100% IL grown and stone-milled grains. The same way my entire bakery has operated since day one.

I proudly use grains from Janie’s Mill | Stone-ground Organic Flour and I humbly pass on what I have learned about using them in these workshops. I usually talk a lot about mentorship and how my entire baking journey has been from curiosity and absorbing tidbits of information from bakers that are better than me. How above all you gotta pay attention to the dough in front of you. How it feels in your hands. Tactical work that I deeply love. And I love quoting jim franks bread thoughts because it allows me to drop a cool f-bomb and make people laugh.

Teaching workshops allows time for people to get their hands in dough and be social through baking. I have giggled with over a hundred people from all over Central IL who have piqued interest in baking more and honing in on their craft. Have heard so many stories of little baking rituals people uphold for themselves and their family and how excited they are to take some new knowledge home. Most of the time, many are leaving with increased interest in utilizing grains grown in IL, we have such abundant access to them and it is better for all that they get used just down the road from where they’re grown. Plus, we ALWAYS eat snacks.

All this to say, I want to keep at it with baking workshops. It’s been one of my favorite parts of what I do as a community baker.

I have three classes on the calendar for this Fall, all through Allerton Park & Retreat Center Folk School. Beginner Sourdough Bread in both Sept and Oct and a Whole Grain Pie Dough in early Nov right before peak pie season. Gonna be asking y’all for some input today in my stories to get an idea of what kind of baking gatherings could be fun in the winter months to come. I have some ideas. Link to upcoming classes in my bio, not many spaces left. Cheers!

08/19/2026

Greetings! Sending out a newsletter this afternoon via my website. It’s taken me a hilariously long time to write due to…being the mother of two small children. Our new family dynamic is not unique, so many have done it before, but WOW was anyone gonna tell me straight about how busy we would be?! lol.

Anyway, loving it all, even the mid afternoon spirals. Character building over here.

I’m slowing coming back to baking for the public. Got a few things brewing behind the scenes and a couple announcements I’m ready to bring to the surface. Not sure what any of it means yet, I’m just moving forward, saying yes to the things that align with me right now and dreaming of what could be down the line. Newsletter going out soon, I got a baby nap gap of free time.

Photos from a sweet catering gig I did for a close friend’s wedding earlier this summer. That was fun, love doing this kind of stuff.

06/30/2026

Had the pleasure of being a part of two weddings these last couple of weekends. Treasured friends of mine, felt very special to have my hands in the magic AND witness the celebrations of big, beautiful love!

But also, was 5 & 6 weeks postpartum. Felt like no joke trying to tuck food and cake prep in amongst the new rhythms of our four person family. I’m not ready to return to working quite yet, I learned that lesson lol. The creative release was revitalizing though and it was so nice to get to treat the “work” like gifts of love, because that’s exactly what they were.

I’m still beaming with love and pride and joy thinking about these celebrations and the emotions they welled up in me. I’m alive! And I’m a mom of two! And I’m figuring it all out!

Cake deets, duh: rye choco bmilk cake, passionfruit curd, salty whipped mascarpone, coconut streusel crunchies & citrus olive oil cake, yuzu olive oil curd, salty whipped mascarpone, ume plum vin macerated peaches, all florals from my beloved Delight Flower Farm | Maggie Taylor and my backyard.

05/11/2026

We’re surrounded by big brother Malc’s tractors and sunshine and flowers from Delight and random piles of blankets and Spanky still barking at everything and a garden recently planted screaming at us to not forget it and just so much LOVE.

Things are real good right now. Learning and adapting and adjusting. In awe of life through it all.

Been waiting since Oct to debut this onesie from . Baby Russell will probably see y’all around town real soon! Cheers!

04/28/2026

I’m really grateful for this time and space I have taken from running a bakery before our new family member arrives. We are days (maybe a few, maybe many more, idk full moon is on Friday) away from meeting this human and the days leading up have been some of my favorite ever. So much laughing at and interacting with Malcolm’s silly character development, and then Chase and I will catch glances and just start tearing up instead because he’s growing up before our eyes. Much baking has persisted, but to fill my own freezer with my own lil sneaky treats. Casually making really incredible bread right now too, of course.

Life feels joyful in this liminal space.

Miss baking as Tooth Butter though. Be back eventually when I get my sea legs.

I have a meal train prepped and ready to help support me and my hungry fam in the coming weeks with new baby and life adjustments. If you are interested in preparing some foods for us, shoot me a message and I’ll lovingly share link.

04/05/2026

So grateful. I am so grateful to be a baker in this town, lovingly supported by this community. Pick-ups yesterday were full of good conversations and well wishes for this next phase of motherhood from folks who have been buying bread and treats since the beginning, nearly three years. So damn special and felt like a perfect bake to end on. Minus the entire lot of Honey Oat Porridge loaves taken to doomsville by the unexpected humidity??? Thought I might do a redemption round of the bread next week because I couldn’t bear the thought of that being the last one…don’t even have enough grains. Lol. I’m working to wrap things up in the kitchen this week and then drifting off into as much rest as I can get before a new family member joins us…thank you so much!

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Urbana, IL

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http://www.HotPlate.com/toothbuttercu, http://www.Toothbuttercu.com/

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