Celeste Barrow is the Everyday Baking Editor at thecookingrecipe.com, where she has spent 17 years developing simple cakes, muffins, and snack bakes for the home kitchen. She grew up in Richmond, Virginia, watching her bus-driver father bake every Sunday using nothing but his hands, a vintage radio, and a feel for the dough. That early lesson shaped her gentle, forgiving style. She believes a snack cake fixes more problems than people like to admit, and she writes for bakers who have flour on th
