Our Story
The Inventive Baker may have been formally created in 2023. At the same time, it was a long time coming.
Leah has been baking, in some capacity, as long as she can remember. In the era before Food Network, the bakes may have been exquisitely decorated box cakes using any icing and sprinkles she could find in her mom’s pantry. But designs began to shift once she was able to watch chefs and cooks create more complicated desserts. Then came the baking specific shows, a new dawn!
Baking continued to be a hobby during high school, through college, and into adulthood. After engineering school, Leah started working with the US Patent & Trademark Office. Her first Christmas as a bonafide “grown-up”, her mom gave her a standard, 5 qt KitchenAid which Leah affectionately named “Alton” after her favorite Food Network personality.
December 25, 2005 with Alton
It’s been years of patent examining and, now, parenting. Leah started to lack a creative outlet. Yes, there was still baking, but there was not enough “creation” to fill that bucket. After years of subjecting her husband to the Great British Bake Off, her husband, Pete, started requesting asking for a different “technical challenge” for his birthday each year lead to a redevelopment of skills and a tidal wave of “ideas”.
Thus began the idea for The Inventive Bakery! “Inventive” as a nod to her service to the USPTO, insatiable desire to bake something new, and perpetual declaration of “Oh! I have an idea…!”
With the support of her husband, old-lady dog, and three children, Leah is ready to share her years of practice with her neighbors.
Recently, atop Cadillac Mountain on a family trip to
Maine dreaming up all things blueberry.
