Taylor Swift performs onstage during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at SoFi Stadium on August 09, 2023 in Inglewood, California. (Kevin Winter/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)
I'm not a Swiftie in the religious sense, but I do know her mythos enough to appreciate a baked-good cameo when I see one. There were the chai sugar cookies with cinnamon-egg-nog icing she shared on Tumblr for her 1989 Secret Sessions. There were the homemade Pop-Tarts for the Kansas City Chiefs offensive line. And, of course, the cinnamon rolls she makes for Travis Kelce's pre-game meals. Now, Swift seems to have taken it a step further: her kitchen is ruled by sourdough.
On Wednesday, Swift appeared on the "New Heights" podcast, co-hosted by Kelce and his brother Jason, to announce her next album, "The Life of a Showgirl," arriving Oct. 3. There were the expected big takeaways: reclaiming her master recordings, the album's more upbeat tone and reflections on her history-making Eras Tour.
But Swift and the Kelce brothers also took a moment to drop some new Taylor baking lore. These days, she spends a lot of what little free time she has scrolling sourdough blogs.
"The sourdough has taken over my life in a huge way," Swift said with a laugh. "I'm really talking about bread 60% of the time now. It's become a huge, huge factor."
Travis Kelce nodded: while her traditional sourdough is one of his favorites, Swift has also been experimenting with other versions. "There's a blueberry-lemon," Swift said. "There's cinnamon swirl, cinnamon raisin. And this one I've been workshopping for the girls because they love everything rainbow -- funfetti sourdough
She continued: "It's gotten pretty crazy over here. I'm just like always baking bread and texting my friends, 'Can I send you some bread?'"
"She's a loafer for life now," Kelce confirmed.
And just like that, Taylor Swift's next era is fully proofed, sprinkles and all