My name is Mike and I ma the owner of Otto’s Bakehouse. I got started baking pretty early. My big Christmas gift when I was 12 was the “Betty Crocker” bake book. In just a few months, I talked the owner of the famous Marker’s Bakery in Upper Montclair, NJ to take me on as a “free” apprentice.

Mr. Marker taught me how to make authentic Danish and the sugar frosting roses you see on fancy wedding cakes. With my cake decorating skills, I used a cake I decorated to convince my eighth grade shop teacher to give me a job working in his side business as a wedding caterer. He taught me how to bake desserts for up to 300 people.

Over the years, I switched careers several times, but kept learning more and more about the craft of baking from master bakers in America, Italy, Germany, Austria and France. I recently returned from living with my family in Germany for two years, where we could ride our bikes across the borders of France and Switzerland to sample amazing baked goods.

Now we are back and __________________