Hello! I'm Rebecca Blackwell, a cookbook author, writer, recipe developer, and food photographer. My husband and I are nomads without a home base but with many modes of transportation, namely an RV, a motorcycle, and a sailboat.
While I have cooked professionally, I am a home cook and baker who writes recipes for other home cooks and bakers. My home happens to have wheels, and occasionally sails, which should tell you that if the recipes work in my tiny kitchen, they will certainly work in yours.
- In 2013, I launched this site, Of Batter and Dough, as a way to share my most tested, trusted, and much-loved home baking recipes.
- I launched my second site, A Little and A Lot, in 2018 where you'll find hundreds of well-tested recipes for the continuous kitchen.
- In 2020, my husband and I sold our Colorado home and moved into a 5th wheel RV.
- In 2024 I launched the Let's Get Lost Newsletter with recipes and stories from life on the road
- In 2025, I published my first cookbook, and...
- we purchased a sailboat and now spend our summers living aboard on Lake Michigan, and...
- I started teaching live streaming cooking classes. Here's where you can view class replays and drop in on an upcoming class: Classes
I also run a monthly mastermind group for food writers.
The Rebecca Blackwell brand family:
"Rebecca, I fell in love with your recipes, the way you described your food and the stories that went along with each step. I kept wishing for a cookbook and now you've DONE IT!! Can't wait! You, Lady are a born writer and a fabulous cook." - Carla
Of Batter and Dough is a baking recipe website with hundreds of tested recipes for everyday and special occasion baking.
On these pages, you will find recipes for everyday indulgences, special occasion extravagances, and plenty that fall somewhere in between.
"Every recipe I've ever tried from this site comes out perfect. The instructions are always so clear and full of the information I need to feel like a confident, experienced baker! This is my go-to site for baking recipes!"
The best way to stay up-to-date on new recipes and updated old ones, is to subscribe to my newsletter. The next best solution is to simply visit me here often, checking the home page for new recipes and updates.
Let's Get Lost is for curious people who love a good meal, believe experiences are more important than things, and want more adventure. If that's you, please subscribe.
A Few of My Favorite Recipes
These are the recipes I make the most frequently:
- Vanilla Loaf Cake Recipe + 4 Flavor Variations
- Homemade Flour Tortillas Made with Butter
- Napoleon Dessert | Mille Feuille Cream Pastry
- Homemade Dinner Rolls {Soft and Buttery}
- The Ultimate Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits {All-Butter Recipe}
- Chocolate Loaf Cake
- Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies {Extra Gooey}
- Berry Cobbler with Sugar Cookie Topping {Fresh or Frozen Berries}
Work with me
Over the years, I've partnered with a variety of brands that I know and love to create recipes, content, and photographs that showcase their products.
"Working with Rebecca makes my job so much easier. She is professional, creative, reliable, a great communicator, and does great work."
Services:
- Sponsored Posts with 6 months of promotion and performance reporting
- Food photography
- Recipe development
- Giveaways
- Baking/ Cooking education
If you're interested in working with me, I can be reached at rebecca@ofbatteranddough.com.
Rave Reviews
"I have had the rare privilege of watching Rebecca create many recipes, and even collaborated on some. I've gotten to taste the iterations as she goes through her process and enjoyed the fruits of her labor many many times.
My refrigerator and freezer are a treasure box full of her sauces, oils, spice blends and leftovers. Her blogs are the places I look first when I go to make anything, sweet or savory.
In the past 8 years or so that I've known her, I've observed several things which I believe make her incredibly unique:
- Rebecca is truly a recipe developer. Other sites seem to find something popular, give a small tweak and re-post it as their own. The extra steps she takes (roasting and grinding pecans for chocolate chip cookies, or layering three kinds of lemon flavoring for her lemon bars) are tried and tested, again and again, until it becomes what she has imagined they should be, always striving to make it even better.
- She is deliberate and takes her time with each step, whether it's painstakingly dicing mounds of mushrooms for the raviolis we made together, or fixing a beurre blanc sauce that broke. Which brings me to the next point...
- She really really understands the chemistry of what is going on, and if she doesn't then she will research until she finds the answer. I've never asked her a "why" question for which she was stumped. She knows why she makes the decisions that she does, because she has tried various ways of doing techniques and found the ones that work best. I've messaged her, frantic because I just put 4 layers of cake in the oven and realized I forgot the salt, and she gave me a remedy (just add more salt to the fillings).
- She has imagination, and will try combinations most people don't think of. Have you tried her Mushroom and Noodle Stir Fry with Strawberries? Genius and vegan.
And she is continuing to learn and expand. I've heard some of her ideas to add to these sites. Can't wait to see what's next." - Judy Bowman
