Taylor Swift Reveals Her Sourdough Hobby on New Heights

From the chai sugar cookies she shared on Instagram back in 2009 to the homemade Pop-Tarts she’s made more recently for her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, fans have been dying to know more about Taylor Swift’s baking prowess for years, and she’s finally spilled a few of her secrets.

On the most recent episode of New Heights — the podcast co-hosted by Travis and Jason Kelce — the 14-time Grammy Award winner not only delivered her first podcast interview ever but also shared that after The Eras Tour she’s picked up a serious affinity for baking sourdough.

Following her wildly successful tour spanning 21 months and 149 shows, each one lasting over three hours, Swift tells the Kelce brothers that she’s finally had time to return to some of her hobbies. (Travis notes that “It’s been so fun to see what Taylor actually gets into around the house.”) According to the pop superstar, all her at-home interests “could be categorized as hobbies you could have had in the 1700s…. You know, I get on my granny shit.”

In addition to sewing — Swift says her two specialties in this arena are children’s purses and baby blankets — the musical artist says that she likes to paint, cook, and bake. When it comes to the latter, she explains that she has a new passion for baking something specific roughly every six months, and “right now we’re very deep in a sourdough obsession that has taken over my life.” 

Travis rightfully acknowledges that he is the “luckiest man in the world,” and he even requested that Swift send him two loaves of her famous sourdough while he was at training camp. The pop artist takes her bread baking seriously, saying, “The sourdough has taken over my life in a huge way. I’m really talking about bread 60% of the time now…” 

She has also experimented with several different kinds of loaves, and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end declares that — besides a classic sourdough — her blueberry version is his favorite.

Swift outlines several of the sourdough varieties she’s tested out, mentioning that “there’s a blueberry lemon, cinnamon swirl, cinnamon raisin,” and one she’s developing for Jason’s daughters, “because they love everything rainbow, funfetti sourdough…. Because they love sprinkles, you know we put sprinkles in everything when we hang out.”

It sounds like sourdough has become almost more than a hobby for Swift — consider this a plea for a cookbook — and she recounts that “I’m always baking bread and texting my friends and being like, ‘Can I send you some bread? I need some feedback. Do you like this one better than you liked the other one? I did the rise a little differently.’ I’m on sourdough blogs; there’s a whole community of us.”

If you’re tuned in to other celebrity news, you may have noticed that Swift sent some of her homemade sourdough to friend and fellow artist Selena Gomez on her recent birthday.

While waiting for the record-breaking musician’s upcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl, to come out on October 3, perhaps you can try your hand at sourdough to live life like a pop star. (After all, Swift says even Travis has tried it.) At the very least, it’ll give you an excuse to use some of her bread-centric puns, like “It’s a loaf story, baby just say yeast.”