Taylor Swift reveals post-tour obsession: ‘Sourdough has taken over my life’
Taylor Swift fans now know that their music idol has entered into a new post-tour era: her Grandma Era.
And there’s a lot of dough involved. The superstar known for her baking skills — remember all those homemade Pop-Tarts she gifted Chiefs players? — has found something new to bake.
She’s been sucked into the “underworld” of sourdough bread blogs and she’s got her Super Bowl-winning boyfriend making bread alongside her.
“I’m getting all my hobbies back,” Swift said in her appearance Wednesday on the “New Heights” podcast with boyfriend Travis Kelce and his brother, Jason Kelce.
“I’d say all my hobbies could be categorized as like hobbies you could have had in the 1700s. Like, I get all my granny (bleep). I like to sew. I specialize ... in children’s purses and baby blankets. I make two things. That’s it.
“I love to paint. I love to cook. I have a different baking obsession every six months.”
“I am the luckiest man in the world,” Travis interjected.
“Right now we’re very deep in a sourdough obsession that has taken over my life,” Swift said.
“I’m lucky I’m working as much as I am and running as much as I am because I am getting the caloric intake,” Travis said. “I am carbing up.”
Literally like someone obsessed, Swift spent several minutes talking about bread. Travis called her “a loafer for life.”
“To call it bread is sort of minimizing what it is,” Swift declared.
Apparently a family friend gifted her a sourdough starter while the couple were “Florida-ing” it up in the Sunshine State over the summer. The bread she baked from it was so good that Travis put in a special request when he returned to the KC-area to start working on the new season.
“He asked me to send him two loaves of sourdough at training camp,” she said. “I’m like wrapping sourdough loaves in like Saran Wrap ... cling film.”
She said sourdough “has taken over my life in a huge way. I’m really talking about bread 60% of the time now. It’s become a huge, huge factor.”
“And she’s getting good with making all these different versions of it,” said Travis.
Her current favorite flavor is blueberry, she said, but she’s working on a recipe for Jason and Kylie Kelce’s young daughters.
“Yeah, there’s a blueberry lemon. There’s cinnamon swirl, cinnamon raisin. And this one I’ve been workshopping for the girls because they love everything rainbow — Funfetti sourdough, because they love sprinkles. We put sprinkles in everything when we hang out,” Swift said.
It’s been fun to see what she gets into around the house, Travis said. At the moment that involves using her friends as guinea pigs, a job her fans would no doubt love to sign up for.
“I’m just always baking bread and texting my friends, ‘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,’” she said.
“I’m on, like, sourdough blogs. There’s a whole community of us and I didn’t know it. This is an underworld.”
“The amount of people hoping you’re on their blog,” Travis teased her.
“Oh, I’m on your blog. Girl, I’m on your blog. But it’s like I just didn’t know this: There’s people like me out there and this is where the internet is good,” she said. “This is where the internet is a good place where you can curate a reality where like all I really use the internet for is sourdough and when Travis shows me videos of otters on his Instagram algorithm.”
She revealed that Travis has been involved in every step of the bread-making process, describing how they set up side-by-side work stations in the kitchen.
“I’ve stretched and folded before. I’ve weighed all the flour,” Travis said.
“His was actually … his rose higher than mine, more delicious than mine,” Swift insisted.
Fans who know her love of cheeky wordplay probably weren’t surprised to hear that she gifts loafs of breads with funny labels based on her songs and lyrics. “You can really go for it with the puns,” she said.
She named a couple. Are you bready for it? Loaf Story.
Loving him was bread, a reference to a lyric in “Red.”
When Travis looked a little confused, she told him, “You don’t know that song, it’s OK. It wasn’t on the tour.”
When Jason asked her to choose one thing to show off her baking skills, she named her cinnamon swirl sourdough, but her Pop-Tarts got a mention, too.
Swift began baking for Travis’ teammates after the two began dating, even making homemade Pop-Tarts for Chiefs defensive backs coach Dave Merritt last year as she wrapped up her tour.
“WHEN DOES THIS LADY SLEEP,” one Swiftie wrote on the Facebook fan page, Taylor Swift’s Vault.
“Ummm…so, this means after performing 3 consecutive shows this weekend she then got up Monday and BAKED DOZENS of pop tarts? M’am I haven’t even put my folded laundry away from Sunday,” wrote another.
The revelation got the attention of the folks who make Pop-Tarts, who begged Swift to release her recipe, even taking out a full-page ad in this very newspaper asking for it. (She hasn’t shared it.)
“God, I just love making pop music and Pop-Tarts,” she joked. “Been really experimenting with the flavors there because now we’ve got ... wild blueberry, raspberry, strawberry the original. And Kylie got me baking the cinnamon sugar.
Jason requested an orange Pop-Tart.
“I will do it if you really want me to, like an orange marmalade ... with a little orange extract in the icing,” Swift suggested.
“A little Paddington Bear Pop-Tart,” Jason said.
“OK, OK. No, I can get with this. I just didn’t see the vision until now. And now I think it’s kinda genius,” she said.
More than 1 million people watched the interview live, many commenting later on how real these two famous people are, appreciative of a rare glimpse into their personal lives.
“This is what life after Eras Tour is,” Travis said.
This story was originally published August 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM.
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