– Pastry Chef, Food Network Challenge Champion, Entrepreneur, Business Owner Through our #BetterYourBake campaign, you met pastry chef and cake designer Marina Sousa. With a decorated career, she frequently designs cakes for celebrities, has appeared on several television baking shows and runs her own business in a beautiful beach town just outside of Santa Cruz.
We all love to tune into the latest cake decorating challenge or baking competition show to admire the elaborate pastry designs and colorful confections. But, do you feel out of the running for the winner’s circle watching from home?
Are you someone who loves to unwind by whipping up a batch of your famous chocolate chip cookies or by tackling a new challenge like Croquembouche? If so, you’re not alone.
Maura Metheny is the Chef Chocolatier/Head of Design and Innovation at Norman Love Confections, a well-known chocolate shop with locations in Fort Myers and Naples, Florida.
Chef Foltz won Best Artistry, Best Sugar Showpiece and the Competitors’ Choice award with his teammate, Chef Arlety Estévez, at the Pastry Live 2013 Showpiece Championship.
Chef Scott Green, 2015 Bronze Medal Winner with the U.S. Team at the Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie, has an impressive resumé as well as an infectious attitude about his profession.
Chef Josh Johnson has been at the ovens most of his life and has been training with world-renowned chefs ever since. Positions at the Ritz-Carlton Chicago, Ambrosia, Everest, and owning his own shop Cocoa Bean Fine Desserts, have taught him that the sky is the limit for those with ambition and perseverance.
Lisa Mansour, an accomplished cake designer and business owner, is best known for her on-trend techniques and feminine cake designs.
Few have experienced the thrill of competing in the Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie. Chef John Kraus, esteemed pastry chef and team captain of the 2015 Bronze Medal U.S. Pastry Team, gave us some insight into what the life- changing event was like.
Chef Jimmy MacMillan owns JMPurePastry while also working as the Executive Pastry Chef at the exclusive University Club of Chicago overseeing all pastry and baking operations.
UK Chef, TV Host, Master Pâtissier and Cookbook Author, Eric Lanlard has baked for the likes of Elizabeth Hurley, Queen Elizabeth, Madonna and many more.
When Kelly Rudnicki, a mother of four discovered her second child John, had severe food allergies, she wasn’t going to sit on the sidelines and let him miss out on all the tasty treats this world has to offer. She was going to do something about it!