Welcome to Terri Bakes!

Terri is a baking and cake decorating instructor, teaching in retail, community, and private in-home instruction.  Where there’s a whisk, there’s a way - She can create a class just for you.  Her goal is to teach the next-generation-bakers and anyone who thinks they can’t bake. Terri will show them, “Yes, YOU can!” Baking gives you confidence and focus and the knowledge to combine butter, flour, sugar, and eggs to create something wonderfully delicious… it’s love-made edible.

As a young girl, Terri was fascinated by the beautiful towering cakes made by her Great-aunt Fronnie. It was like watching a magician as she pulled the delicious cake from the oven as the mouth-watering aroma filled the air. Her Aunt then would crack and separate eggs and pour sugar and whip up the most beautiful white frosting that would be perfectly swirled upon evenly divided chocolate layers of deliciousness. Terri was in Love! 

Learning to bake and her love of baking has taught Terri that sharing her knowledge with others and the next generation is so important. The experience is just as important as what is being learned – and what is being learned through baking goes beyond the kitchen walls. Lasting memories are created, fundamentals can be applied to other tasks and we learn to communicate with others.  In a world where technology rules, the basic skills of traditional baking are being lost. In Terri's way of thinking, baking warms the heart and feeds the soul. It is something to be valued and shared.

When Terri is not baking or teaching, she is reading, thinking about, or planning her next bake. Terri gets inspiration from the Food Network, baking on PBS, and anything Julia Child (she is a Julia Child fan-girl!).  Terri has been a frequent visitor to Julia's kitchen at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History over the years.

Terri believes that learning never ends. She attends baking workshops throughout the year and travels for continuing education classes.

Collecting cookbooks and Bundt pans are her obsessions, especially any out-of-print or vintage books. She has almost every year of the Southern Living Annual Recipe books. Terri discovered “Let’s Bake” with Beulah Ledner: A legendary New Orleans Lady”  while combing through the State Library of Louisiana online catalog. This tiny lady, a housewife, and a mother living in New Orleans introduced us to the multi-layered French Doberge.  See her blog post, “It started with a Lemon Meringue Pie.” 

Terri used to bake for local Farmer’s Markets and she enjoyed meeting new friends, but what she loves is teaching. Terri bakes and teaches and occasionally she is on TV.  You might see her on the KPLC Midday Show.

When you take a class from Terri, you'll enjoy a hands-on class like no other. You will leave the class with knowledge and the inspiration to bake the world a better place. 

Terri lives in her hometown Moss Bluff, LA with her patient husband who has come to accept you can never have too many Bundt pans.