Jenna Barnard
Jenna Barnard is the baker, photographer and recipe creator behind Butternut Bakery, sharing comforting desserts alongside gluten-free and dairy-free options.
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Butternut Bakery
Butternut BakeryOverview
- Known as
- Butternut Bakery
- Started
- 2018
- Work
- Baker, recipe developer and food photographer
- Debut cookbook
- Simple Sugar, scheduled for November 10, 2026
Mini bio
How it started.
Jenna started Butternut Bakery in 2018 while working a full-time desk job. The self-taught baker used the blog as a creative outlet, naming it after the street where she grew up.
Finding her audience.
In an interview with Mia Dubin, Jenna described posting pictures of her baking on her personal Instagram. As those posts gained attention, she created the Butternut Bakery account and grew the project into a career.
Room for more bakers.
After discovering sensitivities to gluten and dairy, she began sharing modified recipes alongside traditional desserts. She also photographs the food herself.
A book for the kitchen shelf.
Her debut cookbook, Simple Sugar, is scheduled for November 10, 2026 through Clarkson Potter. It collects 95 Midwest-inspired desserts, with optional gluten-free and dairy-free swaps. Her announced November tour includes conversations with Justine Doiron in New York and Monique Volz in Chicago.
Creditschronological, newest first
Books
- 2026 (forthcoming)Simple Sugar: Comforting Baking Recipes with Midwestern HeartAuthor
Teaching and appearances
- 2026Holiday Celebration CakesListed instructor alongside Brian Hart Hoffman, Williams Sonoma baking school
- 2023Just the Good Stuff, episode 92Guest in conversation with Rachel Mansfield
Quotes
Those gingerbread cookies are why I fell in love with baking in the first place.Jenna Barnard, The Panther
Remembering the annual Christmas baking tradition with her family.
Trivia
- Butternut Bakery takes its name from Butternut Street, where Jenna’s childhood home stood.
- Her childhood baking memories include gingerbread cookies with her sister and strawberry birthday cakes for her dad.
- She became interested in food photography after starting the blog.
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