Why Not Celebrate Our Parasocial Bestie Taylor Swift's Engagement with Her Most Iconic Dessert? I Am
Say 'Chai Do' (Sorry, Had to)
Oh, Taylor Swift: A mere two weeks after dropping news of a new album amid a two-hour-and-three-minute New Heights podcast interview, you drop your biggest news yet—an engagement! It's safe to say the news is ricocheting around the internet as people analyze every pixel of her five-photo Instagram carousel announcement.
In the mid-2010s, blurring the lines between her Red and 1989 eras, Swift got really into Tumblr. And baking. And sharing the latter on the former—and on Instagram, with very era-appropriate pseudo-vintage filters. There was Ina Garten’s flag cake! Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies! Seemingly whoopie pies! And, perhaps the most intriguing among fans, her riff on vanilla sugar cookies: Chai Sugar Cookies (Taylor’s version).
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