“The Happy Baker Book is a reflection of me, like a good country song, honest and relatable…but without the line dancing.”

Growing up in a small town in Ontario, Erin Bolger realized her love for baking early on. From her first solo batch of shortbread at the tender age of nine followed a few years later by her first cookbook for the County Fall School Fair, unbeknownst to her, Erin was writing the recipe for her future. She may have been a late bloomer when it came to dating, and she may not have always followed her Mom’s dating advice even though, of course, Mom was right. But she did follow her Mom’s baking instructions, which always had a happy ending.

Though the pickin’s may have been slim back home, that all changed when Erin moved to the big city (Toronto) during her college years. Her adventures in baking and dating developed. Not only were the ingredients more available, so were the men. As her dating experiences became more complicated, her need for simple comfort baking increased. Her stories and baking became such apart of people in her every day life they prompted her to share them with everyone...and from that The Happy Baker was born…

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