Pastry Chef
NPD Chef
Food Stylist
Tutor & Demonstrator
About Marianne
Marianne is a qualified pastry chef with a professional background, and an experienced baking & decorating tutor. She has taught at a variety of prestigious cooking and cake decorating schools, including Peggy Porschen Academy, The Bertinet Kitchen, Divertimenti, Fair Cake, Squires' Kitchen and Anna Cake Couture.
She runs bespoke private courses for professional and amateur students from her home town of Bristol, in addition to leading recipe development projects for professional bakeries across the UK.
With numerous recipes and cake projects in print, including Wedding Cakes, The Telegraph Magazine, Cakes & Sugarcraft and Vegan Living, she is a seasoned food writer and recipe developer.
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Marianne also works on specialist food styling projects, using her creative and expert decorating & baking skills to create stunning cake and sugarcraft projects for commercials, stills & online marketing campaigns.
She wrote her first baking book, Nourish Cakes, to share the kinds of recipes that nourish the body as well as the soul. Her cake recipes cater for people with various dietary restrictions, whether vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, using more nutrient-rich and healthy ingredients.
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An expert in recipe development, she thrives on creating problem-solving recipes that help people enjoy cake without compromise.
Press
Marianne’s work has been featured in the following online and print
publications:
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The Telegraph Magazine
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Party Pieces
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Cakes & Sugarcraft
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Wedding Cakes
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The Guardian
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Vegan Living
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Foodlover
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Radio Times
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Ocado Life
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Rock My Wedding
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Sainsbury’s Bake Magazine
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Baking Heaven
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Hip & Healthy
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Vegan Food & Living
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Absolutely London
