B. Dylan Hollis

Benjamin Dylan Hollis (born September 7, 1995) as well as over two million subscribers on YouTube. Released in July 2023, it debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Sellers list and remained on the list for an additional fourteen weeks.

Early life Hollis grew up in St. George's, Bermuda, and attended Warwick Academy.

Career

Hollis began using TikTok in April 2020 to pass time during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hollis's videos use recipes from 20th-century vintage cookbooks, typically spanning from the late 1800s to the 1960s. The recipes in his videos span from 1865 at the oldest to 2001 at the newest, tuna salad Jell-O, a water pie, Hollis cites radio programming of the 1930s and 1940s as influencing his on-camera persona. In a May 2021 column for The New York Times, comedian John Hodgman mentioned watching Hollis's videos, particularly noting his tuna Jell-O salad and chocolate mayonnaise cake videos.

In June 2022, Hollis announced he would be writing a cookbook, Baking Yesteryear. The book's 101 recipes, spanning from the 1900s to the 1980s, include some of the highest-rated recipes from his videos, including but not limited to cornflake macaroons, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) biscuits, Ricciarelli, and the homebake version of Buster Bars popularised in the 1980's by the release of the Dairy Queen ice-cream bar of the same name. The book was released on July 25, 2023 via Penguin Random House.

In 2025, Hollis released a second cookbook, Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip, featuring 100 dessert recipes from throughout the United States.

Personal life He has a collection of over 340 vintage cookbooks, to which fans often contribute. Hollis is gay and came out in 2019. He often makes comedic references to his sexuality in his videos. He told PinkNews that he had difficulty expressing his sexuality growing up, due to hostile attitudes in Bermuda, and that his TikToks are "my way of sharing myself to what I assume are accepting people, and it's proven to be that way – and it's made me feel a whole lot better about myself."