Jocelyn Delk Adams

Jocelyn Delk Adams is the founder, author, national television personality and brand ambassador behind the award winning cookbook "Grandbaby Cakes" and the food website Grandbaby-Cakes.com, which gives her family’s, particularly her grandmother’s, cherished generational recipes her modern spin while preserving the most important ingredient- tradition. Adams is a TODAY Show Tastemaker, a Food Network judge on the popular series “Santa’s Baking Blizzard” and “Beat Bobby Flay”, and cast member of such shows as “Food Fantasies on OWN Network and the Cooking Channel’s longest running most popular shows, “Unique Sweets”. In addition to being a regular on the TODAY Show and Good Morning America, she is regularly featured on The Rachael Ray Show, Food Network’s “The Kitchen”, Dr. Oz, The Cooking Channel, People Magazine, ABC World News Now, Hallmark Channel, Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, O (The Oprah) Magazine, The Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS, Essence Magazine, Huffington Post, Bon Appetit, Southern Living Magazine, and many others.

She also recently gave a TED Talk in 2017 about Brand Authenticity and has been a top brand ambassador and writer for several top brands such as Coca-Cola, Land O’ Lakes, Audi, Dole, James Beard Foundation, Pillsbury, State Farm, HomeGoods, McCormick and many more.

Adams’s first cookbook "Grandbaby Cakes" was released in September 2015 and was featured as a top fall cookbook by People Magazine, Vanity Fair, Yahoo! and Epicurious. It also won the Gourmand World Award 2016 for Best Blogger Cookbook USA and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award 2016- Outstanding Literary Instructional Work. Adams was also a contributor to 2017 Eater’s Cookbook of the Year Feed the Resistance. Adams hopes Grandbaby Cakes will continue to deliver inspired recipes shaped by the past but reinvented for the present which will encourage new generations of dessert enthusiasts to learn how to bake and create new family memories for years to come.