Hi, I’m Amy!
Welcome to Baking with Granny! This is where I share my love of classic home baking recipes – the kind you grew up with, the ones your granny would have made, and all your nostalgic favourites that feel like home.
Since 2015, I’ve been sharing bakes that are simple, reliable, and full of memories. Some are Scottish family favourites, while others are the classic bakes we all know and love – the ones you’ll remember from school dinners, bake sales, and your family kitchen.
How it all started…
I grew up in a home where baking was always a constant. My Mum was a professional baker, and her influence can still be found throughout the recipes on Baking with Granny.
When I first launched the blog, it was a way to document her recipes for my own children. The ones she had written on scraps of paper, tucked away in notebooks (including her famous “little blue book”), or simply stored in her memory. What began as a project to preserve those bakes for future generations has since grown into a much-loved food blog with readers from all over the world.
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Why trust my recipes?
Baking with Granny began with the recipes my Mum passed down to me. Before becoming a mother herself, she worked in bakeries, big and small. Then, while I was growing up, she ran her own cake-making business from home and supplied cakes & tray bakes to local cafés. Baking was part of everyday life in our house, and the skills and experience she passed on to me still help shape the recipes I bake and share here today.
Since 2015, I’ve been sharing my own baking recipes alongside those family favourites, helping you recreate everything from the Scottish bakery classics to all the puddings you remember from your school dinners.
My aim has always been to make home baking feel achievable, even for the most novice of home bakers. That has to mean familiar ingredients, clear instructions, and practical advice on the things that can make a difference to your bake – from choosing your margarine to knowing when your cake is ready.
Baking with Granny in Numbers
What started as a place to save our family recipes has grown into an amazing community of people who share a love of traditional home baking.
📆 Since 2015: Sharing traditional Scottish and British home baking recipes.
🍰 150+ recipes: Cakes, biscuits, scones, puddings and all your bakery favourites to make at home.
📩 18,000+ email subscribers: Baking along with the recipe ideas delivered straight to their inboxes.
👯 30,000+ followers: Across social media, including Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube.
🧑🍳 300+ home bakers: Helped test the recipes for my debut cookbook, Scottish Bakes.
My cookbook: Scottish Bakes
In October 2025, I published my first cookbook, Scottish Bakes – a collection of over 50 traditional Scottish baking recipes, with tips and stories passed down through generations.
It brings together favourites from Baking with Granny, as well as recipes exclusive to the book. More than 300 home bakers helped test the recipes, bringing their experience and feedback from everyday kitchens into the finished collection.
Creating it was my way to put those much-loved bakes into something you can keep on your kitchen counter, scribble your own notes in, and hopefully pass down through your own family too.
Press and Appearances
Sharing Scottish and British baking has taken me beyond my own kitchen, from live baking demonstrations to television, radio and newspaper features.
Some personal highlights include:
- The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice: Mum and I appeared with a selection of regional Scottish shortbread. Read about our visit and the Highlander Shortbread we took along.
- The Scottish Daily Mail: I’ve had a number of Christmas recipe pull-out features in the Daily Mail, as well as a week-long 4-page spread of recipes.
- B&M and The Scotsman: My Irn Bru Cupcakes recipe is featured on the B&M website and in The Scotsman Food & Drink.
- Metro: My School Cake recipe has appeared both in the Metro newspaper and on their website.
- Eat Blog Talk Podcast: I have been a podcast guest twice, talking about Imposter Syndrome as a food blogger and self-publishing my first cookbook.
- Happy Subscribers Podcast: I spoke with Allea on her podcast about how I recruited 300+ recipe testers for my cookbook.
- The Edinburgh Evening News, The Scotsman, East Lothian Courier and Forth One: I’ve been featured in many local newspapers and radio stations, talking about Baking with Granny and my cookbook, Scottish Bakes.
- Foodies Festival: I have appeared at Foodies Festival in both Edinburgh and Glasgow for over 6 years now, hosting live baking demonstrations, sharing recipes, and chatting about the bakes we remember from our grannies’ kitchens.
Life beyond the kitchen…
These days, I live in East Lothian with my husband, our two sons, and my small pack of Siberian huskies. Motherhood has always been an important part of my story, and baking has played a role in every stage – from birthday cakes to school bake sales and everyday treats & snacks. Baking with Granny has also been a way for me to make a living while staying home to care for my kids when I became a single Mum back in 2018.
When I’m not in the kitchen, you’ll usually find me out with the dogs, walking miles through the countryside, training for canicross races, or competing in dog shows. I also spend a fair bit of time driving my eldest to mountain bike trails across the country and acting as an on-call IT support for my youngest in his ever-growing PC ventures. As of 2025, we also home educate, while currently following an “unschooling” model.
A few fun facts about me!
- I share my home (and my couch!) with a small pack of Siberian huskies – Moose, Selkie and Tod. You can follow their adventures on Facebook and Instagram.
- I’m an elder emo at heart – it wasn’t just a phase, Mum!
- I am a homebird through and through, happiest when I’m in our little house, with my family and dogs.
- I looove houseplants. In particular, my Thai & Albo Monsteras – they’re my pride and joy.
- I have had every possible hair colour/style you could imagine. I shaved my head in 2023 (donating my hair to The Little Princess Trust), and it was my most favourite hairstyle I’ve ever had.
- I have ADHD, PMDD, CPTSD, anxiety and Endometriosis. I’m also a trustee for our local ASN Family Support Group, a cause that’s very close to my heart.
Try One Of Our Family Favourites!
Let’s bake together!
Whether you’re looking for a simple tray bake, a classic cake, or a traditional taste of Scotland, you’ll hopefully find plenty of inspiration here.
And if there’s a particular recipe you are looking for, just send me an email: [email protected]
