{"id":118752,"date":"2018-10-25T11:34:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T10:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=118752"},"modified":"2018-10-25T11:34:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T10:34:23","slug":"baking-blog-spotlight-britt-box-she-who-bakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/baking-blog-spotlight-britt-box-she-who-bakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Baking Blog Spotlight: Britt Box, She Who Bakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shewhobakes1\">Britt Box<\/a> is the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/shewhobakes.co.uk\/\">She Who Bakes<\/a>, a new entry in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/social-media-index\/baking-blogs-uk-top-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top 10 UK Baking Blogs<\/a>. Britt started baking as a means to tackle depression and has now turned it into her business, which includes the bestseller book <em>Cakes, Bakes &amp; Business<\/em>. We caught up with Britt to talk about turning your blog into a business, improving her bakes and making magic with brands and PRs.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">How has your blog changed from when you first started?<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>When I first started, I didn\u2019t have a proper blog website, it was just a page of information. I was also making commission cake at the time and most of my blog posts were documenting whichever cake I was working on that week. Now I concentrate more on recipes and tutorials.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118756\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Britt-Box.jpg\" alt=\"Britt Box\" width=\"760\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Britt-Box.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Britt-Box-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Britt-Box-705x399.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Britt-Box-450x255.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Britt-Box-500x283.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Why baking?<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>I accidentally fell into baking in 2010. I was suffering badly with depression, anxiety and septicaemia after an operation. I was signed off work and not having a great time. A friend of mine was running a charity bake sale and asked if, as I had a bit of spare time, I wanted to make a cake for it. I bought a packet mix and a block of icing and made an (inedible) mess. BUT I enjoyed it so much I kept doing it, I kept going, started a blog about what I was doing and years later here I am. I baked my way out of depression and now I help others.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">How do you make your blog stand out?<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>My blog is aimed at beginners. I talk about the highs and lows of baking. I keep it completely real. I felt it was important that people should know cakes don\u2019t always turn out how you planned and that\u2019s ok!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">What\u2019s the best bake you\u2019ve ever made?<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Caramel blondie cups. It\u2019s all of my favourite flavours and I ate most of them just to myself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Britt-Box-3.jpg\" alt=\"She who bakes\" width=\"760\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Britt-Box-3.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Britt-Box-3-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Britt-Box-3-705x399.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Britt-Box-3-450x255.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Britt-Box-3-500x283.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">What\u2019s the best bake you\u2019ve ever eaten?<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>A madeira cake. I can do it in my sleep now and I always get great results with them.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Who will win The Great British Bake Off?<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Kim-Joy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">What one thing should PRs know about you?<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Creating recipes, tutorials and writing articles about baking is something I love doing. Get in touch and let\u2019s make magic together.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Britt-Box-2.jpg\" alt=\"Britt Box\" width=\"760\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Britt-Box-2.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Britt-Box-2-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Britt-Box-2-705x399.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Britt-Box-2-450x255.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Britt-Box-2-500x283.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">What are the best collaborations you\u2019ve worked on?<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Working with Homepride Flour &amp; Macmillan Cancer Support. I lost my mum and nan to cancer so that was a job close to my heart.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Do you think bloggers need their own industry association?<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>I think so, yes. Nowadays bloggers are making up more and more of the people who write reviews, collaborate with brands and we are who people turn to for advice in specific industries. I think bloggers as a whole need to be taken more seriously.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">What other blogs do you read?<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icedjems.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iced Jems<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thebakingexplorer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Baking Explorer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bakingqueen74.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BakingQueen74<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/pr-software\/media-database\/?clid=promo_content_spotlights#get-pricing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-111841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Reach-the-right-influencers-with-the-Vuelio-media-database.jpg\" alt=\"Reach-the-right-influencers-with-the-Vuelio-media-database\" width=\"900\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Reach-the-right-influencers-with-the-Vuelio-media-database.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Reach-the-right-influencers-with-the-Vuelio-media-database-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Reach-the-right-influencers-with-the-Vuelio-media-database-768x364.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Reach-the-right-influencers-with-the-Vuelio-media-database-705x334.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Reach-the-right-influencers-with-the-Vuelio-media-database-450x214.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Reach-the-right-influencers-with-the-Vuelio-media-database-500x237.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britt Box is the author of She Who Bakes, a new entry in the Top 10 UK Baking Blogs. Britt started baking as a means to tackle depression and has now turned it into her business, which includes the bestseller book Cakes, Bakes &#038; Business. We caught up with Britt to talk about turning your blog into a business, improving her bakes and making magic with brands and PRs.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":312,"featured_media":118755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7365,7272,4038,6980],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118759,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118752\/revisions\/118759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}