HELLO!
My name is Zahara and I’m the one lady show behind Beurre. I come from a home where there is an enormous emphasis on sharing meals with your loved ones and marking celebrations with food, always food. My mother has instilled a love of making people happy via the contents on their plate and she taught me to place emphasis on flavour and creativity first. Balancing something that is equal parts moist, crumbly, crunchy and not overly sweet, with flavours that explode on your taste buds and leave you and your guests with the urge to empty plates of dessert into your mouths; this is what I’m all about.
After uni I was working in the Marketing team for an automotive company, but my heart wasn’t in it. So, I made the big decision to leap into what I loved; patisserie. I learnt the fundamentals of patisserie in Melbourne. Through my apprenticeship I was trained in making croissants, puff pastry, choux and other traditional French desserts and pastries. During all of this, in 2012, Beurre was also born, and I started making cakes and desserts for markets and for celebrations.
In 2017 I moved to Paris and worked at Laduree. Here, I was exposed to a wide variety of flavours components and ingredients, a higher level of precision, various design elements and techniques. I also unashamedly spent the year traipsing around Europe and eating my body weight in #allthesugar. Now I’m back in Melbourne, running after 2 small humans, still eating the sugar and providing dessert-filled memories for all your events.
Through Beurre, I am constantly seeking to provide you with delicious, beautiful and creative desserts; be it a celebration cake or a range of decadent pâtisseries heaving on a dessert table, to mark all the special events in your life. Ordering a dessert from Beurre is ordering something that has skill, hours of thought and hard work poured into it. Everything is made from scratch using high quality ingredients and pre-mix is one dirty word that has no place in my kitchen. And remember, at the end of the day, I don’t just encourage gluttonous behaviour; I demand it. I look forward to making your sweet dreams come true!
Zahara x