about

Ritual Pastry is dedicated to my vegan baking recipes, tips, guides and more. As a professional vegan pastry chef for over 8 years I have developed countless recipes and acquired some great techniques that I am looking forward to sharing with you. In addition to taking on my tried+true recipes we will be experimenting and getting creative with decoration and flavors. Baking is a ritual for me, creatively and obsessively. I am an artist and gardener, both which inform and inspire my baking. You will find the strange and unusual here, so let’s get weird.

An intro to me: Hey there, my name is Kristen and I live in Chicago with my partner Mark and my french bulldog, Frankie. We just bought our first home and we have been pouring ourselves into making it our own, including cultivating an amazing vegetable garden. There is something sacred about adhering to the moon cycles to grow my plants from seed. I bake seasonally and gather inspiration from nature. I am an artist who loves to bake. I went to school for photography — real deal film photography — the good stuff. I am also an illustrator and I love to use different mediums. Some of what gets me going : Man Ray + surrealism, low brow art, the occult, dirty mags, 1970s, true crime, motorcycles and heavy metal.