Taylor Swift bakes for fans

Taylor Swift has been showing off her cookery skills by baking for fans attending her album listening parties.

The Love Story singer has hosted a number of events for her loyal devotees to celebrate the launch of her new record 1989, and she has made time to create her own sweet treats for them.

Swift tells British radio station KISS FM UK, "I made cookies for the first group, and then they kind of talked about it online, and so all the other people were like... 'I wonder if I get invited to one, I hope she bakes for that one too'. And so I'm like, 'Okay, I've got to bake for all of them'...

"But for me, it's actually really fun, because you get to try out all kinds of new recipes and stuff, and for me that's actually very exciting. It's one of the things I really like to do. It kind of calms me down, because if I'm thinking about measuring out all these ingredients and just kind of following sort of a recipe, then it just is - I'm not thinking about things that stress me out... It's just kind of like a comfort thing."