As you might be aware, Taylor Swift’s 12th album dropped on October 3. I spent the past weekend listening to it. I am not a full Swiftie (more Swiftie adjacent) but I do like her music. In case you don’t know her, Taylor Alison Swift is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, actress, and billionaire who has evolved from country music to pop stardom. Known for her autobiographical lyrics and reinventions, she’s one of the best-selling artists of all time and the highest-grossing live music act. She is also the fiancé of Travis Kelce, a professional football player who is a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League.
Taylor Swift is a proud mom of three cats: Meredith Grey, an older Scottish Fold adopted in 2011; Olivia Benson, a younger Scottish Fold adopted in 2014; and Benjamin Button, a Ragdoll cat adopted in 2019. All three cats are named after characters from Taylor Swift’s favorite films and TV shows.
Taylor Swift has a well-known love for cooking and baking, which she developed from helping her mother in the kitchen as a child. She enjoys making dishes like Ina Garten’s meatballs, Jamie Oliver’s chicken fajitas, and Nigella Lawson’s chicken. In recent years, she has embraced baking as a significant hobby, experiencing different “baking obsessions” every few months, including chai sugar cookies, pumpkin loaf, and her current passion for sourdough bread.
On the August 14, 2025, episode of the Kelce brothers’ New Heights podcast, Swift revealed that she is deep into a “sourdough obsession”. She creates unique flavor combinations like cinnamon swirl, blueberry lemon, and Funfetti. She sends loaves of her bread to friends and family.
Recently, Taylor even baked a loaf of sourdough for her Fate of Ophelia music video. In an Instagram post she was so excited to have a loaf of her bread in the video.
In a nod to Swift’s sourdough baking hobby, those fans who preordered her new album from Walmart were also surprised with a loaf of sourdough bread, Walmart told USA TODAY.
Fall is Swift’s season, and that theme extends to her baked creations. Her most iconic recipe might be her chai sugar cookies. On September 29, 2014, Swift posted a photo of the cookies on Instagram, calling them “Chai sugar cookies with cinnamon eggnog icing AKA Christmas in September”. The viral success of the post led fans to request the recipe. After the initial posts, Swift shared the full, handwritten recipe on her Tumblr. In 2021, Taylor Swift’s handwritten recipe for chai sugar cookies was auctioned for charity, fetching $4,189. The recipe is a modification of a vanilla sugar cookie recipe by baker Joy the Baker, with Swift’s addition of a chai tea bag to the dough and an eggnog glaze.
Although not quite as well known as the chai variation, Swift’s pumpkin chocolate chip cookies were also all the rage on her Tumblr.
What qualifies you as a Swiftie or Swiftie adjacent? You definitely do not have to memorize a song to be a Swiftie. You need to like her music and respect her, that’s it. Swifties are known for their dedication, enthusiasm, and participation in the fan community. They are also known for their positive influence on social media and their cultural impact on popular culture.
Just remember, “We never go out of style, cause the bakers are gonna bake, bake, bake, bake, bake.”
Taylor Swift’s Chai Sugar Cookies.
Servings: Yields 12 cookies Author: Claudia Cooper
For Dough
1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 granulated sugar
1 large egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tea bag of chai leaves
1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg
1 tablespoon of sugar, for topping
For Glaze
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoon whole milk
1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
1/2 tea bag of chai tea leaves
For Cookies:
Preheat oven to 350℉. In a large bowl, combine butter, oil and sugar; cream until smooth. Add in powdered sugar, egg, vanilla extract and tea leaves until well combined. Sift in remaining dry ingredients: flour, salt and baking soda; stir in until well combined. Allow dough to chill for one hour. On a lined cookie sheet, place 12 1-tablespoon dough drops evenly. Press dough flat and sprinkle sugar on top. Bake 9-12 minutes.
For Glaze:
In a small bowl, combine powdered sugar, milk, cinnamon and tea leaves. Add more milk or powdered sugar until desired consistency. Allow cookies to cool and drizzle with icing. Enjoy!
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
These pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are perfect for those of us who love all things pumpkin spice flavor and chocolate. These cake-like cookies are always a big hit!
Yield: 2 dozen cookies
Ingredients
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 cup white sugar
½ cup vegetable oil
1 large egg
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon milk
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
½ cup chopped walnuts (Optional)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Directions
Gather the ingredients. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet. Combine pumpkin, sugar, oil, and egg in a large bowl. Dissolve baking soda into milk in a small bowl and stir in. Stir together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt in a separate bowl. Add flour mixture to pumpkin mixture and mix well. Add chocolate chips, walnuts, and vanilla; stir just to combine. Drop by spoonful on the prepared cookie sheet and bake in the preheated oven until lightly brown and firm, approximately 10 minutes. Let cool on the baking sheet for 2 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
