It Runs In The Family
About Us
I learned to bake from my mom. When I was young she participated in huge cookie exchanges. We baked enough chocolate chip cookies to feed an army, then divided them and traded for others. I loved when she’d come home with plates overflowing with different cookies with different legacies to them. Each recipe was like sharing a story of it’s baker, and so that’s how I’ve always approached baking- as a thing to share love and pieces of ourselves. My mom’s baking story continues with me, and my two boys.
Why the Laughing Oak?
The name of the bakery came from what we named our home when we bought it over a decade ago. A friend of ours had a lovely title for her home, “The House of White Pines”, and my husband wanted to give our new home a name as well. But we’re a silly lot, my family, and decided something more down in the dirt fit us better. So, our home was dubbed the Laughing Oak Inn- for our family’s love of both laughter and hosting our people in our kitchen.
And so- The Laughing Oak Bakery!
It Takes A Village
It was my mom who inspired me, and my dad who helped make it real- literally, he helped me build my kitchen! In fact, it took my entire community to bring my bakery into reality. Friends and family assisted in renovating and equipping our kitchen to what I needed, both in labor and financial support. The end result was a living I have passion for, that helped provide for us, and let me be a stay at home parent for my kids.
