Artist of the Week: Trisha Kostis, baker and owner of Batch Bake Shop
Trisha Kostis has been baking in Seattle since 1993, starting as "The Scone Lady," making morning pastries for the (now long-defunct) Cugini Café on Ballard Avenue, and continuing over the years for many other local spots. She now operates her own fully licensed cottage bakery and offers a small menu of special cookies and breads for local pickup.
Seattle Refined: How long have you been creating? What mediums do you work with?
Trisha: I started Batch Bake Shop to parlay my decades of experience in baking into a manageable retirement option. Batch is a cottage bakery, built entirely around my specific needs for creating treats my customers and I want to eat, and working a humane, totally flexible schedule from the comfort of my home. My medium is primarily flour, sugar and butter. And chocolate!
Can you tell us about your process and the stages that go into it?
Customers order treats from my website and pick up from my door or from the adorable bakery box at the end of my driveway. Pick-up times are flexible for the customer, and if I can't be there to personally hand them their treat, they can pick it up out of t...