Making Cookies Into Art With Lindsey Bakes

Pastry chef Lindsey Gazel founded Lindsey Bakes six and a half years ago after graduating from culinary school at George Brown and working at different bakeries. Lindsey Bakes doesn’t only make cookies; the company also does cakes, pop tarts, and other sweet confections.

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As the company’s founder and sole employee, Lindsey Gazel is painfully modest: “I make cookies of things that interest me.”

Despite her thousands of followers and the increasing trend of cookies as art, Gazel is levelheaded with a ruthless work ethic. She started Lindsey Bakes years before the rise of Instagram starlets and will likely continue baking years after we’ve all moved on from them.

“I really do love it,” she explains. “I just think, ‘fuck there’s so much left to do.’ There are not enough hours in the day, but you just get through it. I’m always working. This is all I do. I don’t take days off, and I probably work twelve hours a day.”