Martha Timke

Pastry Chef Martha Timke joined the CSCA faculty as a pastry instructor for the Professional Pastry Program in 2006. She specializes in specialty cakes, complex desserts, chocolate work, breakfast pastries, and yeast breads. Martha earned her culinary training at Newbury College, in Brookline, where she received an Associates Degree in Applied Science, Culinary Arts. No stranger to teaching, she was a culinary arts and baking instructor at Bristol Community College, Randolph Public Schools, Blue Hills Regional Vocational Technical High School, Newbury College, and Crittenton Hastings House. She was the Executive Pastry Chef at The Catered Affair, a catering company based in Rockland, MA. While Martha worked at the Catered Affair, she was also a kosher caterer for Provender, a kosher catering company affiliated with The Catered Affair. In addition, she worked at The Depot Coffee Shoppe, where she produced muffins, coffee cakes, assorted breakfast pastries for morning sales and baked the desserts for lunch sales. She also worked at Zeppy's Baigel Bakery in Randolph as a pastry plater and cake decorator. Martha holds a ServSafe Certificate, CPR Certification, Massachusetts Vocational Technical Approval from the Department of Education, and she is a registered ServSafe instructor and proctor.