About Beth Branch

Beth Branch was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She began baking and created her first food blog, The Collegiate Baker, in 2011 while she was a student at the University of Alabama. Her early baking adventures mainly focused on creating over-the-top birthday cakes for her friends and family, but also included plenty of forays into old family recipes and her grandmother’s recipe box. After graduating from college, Branch rebranded her blog as bethcakes, the name her friends coined for her over-the-top cakes. In addition to family favorite southern recipes, Branch also plays with modern food trends to create fun recipes for people of all baking experience levels to enjoy. @bethcakesblog