Karen Rivera-Gorski’s lifelong passions for artistic design and baking decadent desserts from scratch led her to create The Painted Cake.

Classically trained and certified in Pastry and Baking Arts at the Institute of Culinary Education, Karen learned that there are endless ways to create edible works of art.

Prior to founding The Painted Cake, Karen graduated from the University of Michigan and enjoyed a successful career in management consulting at a leading firm. She also apprenticed at trendy New York City bakeries before venturing out on her own.

The Painted Cake is not a high production, retail bakery; it is a cake studio that specializes in custom-designed cake orders for weddings, birthdays, bar mitzvahs, and other special events. Other specialties include cupcakes and all-butter, hand decorated sugar cookie favors. All cakes and cookies are made with the highest quality vanilla beans, butter, chocolate, and extracts.

The Painted Cake cake studio is located in Millington, NJ.

Karen lives in Montclair, NJ with her husband.