Rachael Teufel is not just a baker. Not even an artisan baker. She is an artist-baker. And her creations leave people mesmerized.
It seemed all the puzzle pieces had been in place since she was a child. She learned about baking from her Hungarian grandmother, while her father encouraged her to explore her creativity. “We would paint, draw, and sculpt with play dough any chance we had,” she said in a Facebook interview.
She tried a couple of art forms in college, but it wasn’t until after she graduated in 2000 that she discovered her future passion for cake decorating.
“I married my husband and moved from Ohio to Connecticut. He was busy in graduate school and I didn’t really know anyone, so I sought out a hobby to occupy my free time and meet new people,” she said.
