"It all started with a cookie. I have been baking since very young and have now been in business full-time for over six years. I truly can't imagine doing anything else."
-Michelle Powers
As a young child, Michelle's passion for baking took shape in the kitchen of her grandmother. While her grandmother was making homemade tortillas, Michelle would take a ball of dough, roll it out and stamp cookie cutters into it, making her first "cookies". Then with the help of her mother, she got into making oatmeal cookies and from then explored many other areas of baking.
In 1998 Michelle graduated from Smith College with a degree in Psychology and then went off to San Francisco to pursue her lifelong interest in baking. She worked under Traci des Jardin of Jardiniere as a pastry cook, learning the California French techniques of baking and pastry.
Missing her family, she moved to Austin to start her business and share her sweet vision of making beautiful cakes that melt in your mouth. Little by little, she climbed her way into the world of wedding cakes and is now one of Austin's top wedding vendors.
Michelle loves working with people and takes her time to customize cakes to each client's vision. She has built a strong team that is passionate about cakes and dedicated to creating a product of supreme quality.
Michelle's work has been featured in both regional and national issues of The Knot, Austin Wedding Guide, Austin Wedding Mall, and Austin Wedding Day. She was also recently featured on national television's WE Wedding Central.
Michelle's Patisserie has been voted two consecutive years by local brides as "The Knot Best of Weddings". Thank you, Knotties!
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