Jessie Sheehan

Jessie is a recipe developer, baker, food writer, and cookbook author. She loves making simple, old-school, easy-peasy sweets more than just about anything else and is particularly fond of chocolate pudding and any and all pies topped with toasted meringue. 

Highlights

• Author of "The Vintage Baker" and "Icebox Cakes"
• Contributor to multiple food publications such as Epicurious, Food52, The Kitchn, Chowhound, and more

Experience

Jessie is the author of "The Vintage Baker" (one of the Washington Post’s best cookbooks of 2018) and the co-author of "Icebox Cakes." She has developed recipes for many other cookbooks and has contributed recipes and video content to Better Homes & Garden, Rachael Ray Everyday, The Washington Post, Yankee Magazine, Epicurious, Food52, Fine Cooking, The Kitchn, TASTE, The Hallmark Channel's Home & Family Show, Feedfeed, Chowhound, Yummly, and Little Sous.

She blogs at Jessie Sheehan Bakes and lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn with her husband and two boys, not far from her beloved Baked, the bakery where she got her start.

Education

Jessie received a Bachelor of Art from Barnard College and a Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law.

About The Spruce

The Spruce, a Dotdash brand, is a new kind of home website offering practical, real-life tips and inspiration to help you create your best home. The Spruce family of brands, including The Spruce, The Spruce Eats, The Spruce Pets, and The Spruce Crafts collectively reach 30 million people each month.

For more than 20 years, Dotdash brands have been helping people find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. We are one of the top-20 largest content publishers on the Internet according to comScore, a leading Internet measurement company, and reach more than 30% of the U.S. population every month. Our brands collectively have won more than 20 industry awards in the last year alone and, most recently, Dotdash was named Publisher of the Year by Digiday, a leading industry publication.