French pastry chef Emilie Rudolf whips up storm at Dean St Bakery
The young woman from an island in the Mediterranean is on an adventure around Australia, baking up her delectable goods along the way.
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Emilie Rudolf has been bringing a taste of France to Rockhampton through her new, sweet job at Dean Street Bakery.
The 24 year old is from Ajaccio, the capital of Corsica, a French Island in the Mediterranean Sea, southeast of the French mainland.
She began a great Australian adventure at the end of 2022, living in Sydney before she moved on to Perth and then embarking on a road trip from Cairns to Brisbane.
In April, she took up a job as an au pair for a family in Norman Gardens and moved to Rockhampton.
With a background as a trained French pastry chef, she approached Dean St Bakery about working there.
In her few short weeks at the business, her extravagant and delectable treats have become very popular with customers.
Her creations include delicious dessert flavours of parfaits and tiramisu, tarts, petit gateau, macarons and more scrumptious French pastries.
A personal favourite is Saint-Honore au chocolat, a French dessert with choux pastry and vanilla cream.
Emilie did her training in France, where she was working at a bakery and restaurant, starting in the kitchen and then training over one year to be a pastry chef.
She said working in bakeries in Australia had not been the same as France and she’s had to find new recipes.
There also isn’t the same ingredients available that she is used to or specialities items like gourmet baguettes and croissants.
“The humidity is very high, it’s hard to find recipes that fit with the temperature and everything,” she said.
“It’s definitely not the same way to work.”
She plans to be in Rockhampton for three months and said she had been enjoying her time in the region and at the bakery.
“They let me make my favourite creations so it’s been very good,” she said.
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