Karolina, founder of Pastrymade, with her son and daughter in matching aprons

OUR STORY

It Started with One Little Cake

How a mother's idea in her own kitchen became the rolling pins 250,000+ home bakers use today.

My name is Karolina, and I am a mother of two. When my eldest daughter was born, we decorated her first cake with her name and tiny hearts.

When I saw that pattern, I had an idea: what if every cookie could feel this special?

2015Our first rolling pin
250,000+Home bakers

2015

The first rolling pin

I rolled our first pin over my dough and baked the cookies. The pattern came out of the oven, clear and beautiful.

Then friends asked for one, and friends of friends. Our first custom pin was for a friend in London: we engraved her city all around it. We engraved every pin and packed every order by hand.

Karolina in 2015, holding one of the first small rolling pins — Our first small pins

A London rolling pin engraved with Big Ben and British flags, in front of Tower Bridge — For a friend in London

Freshly engraved rolling pins drying on a wooden rack in 2015 — Engraving

Rolling pins being packed in boxes in 2015 — Packing every order

2017

From Canada to Warsaw

A customer travelled from Canada to meet me in Warsaw. A rolling pin from my little workshop had brought us together.

My daughter, the girl the first pin was made for, picked her favourite design: Cats. And her little brother put on his chef's hat and became my helper.

Karolina meeting a customer from Canada in Warsaw in 2017 — Meeting Constance from Canada

Karolina's daughter in the workshop in 2017, holding a rolling pin — She picked Cats

Karolina's young son in a chef's hat and apron, next to a rolling pin — My little helper

Today

Made by women, for women who bake

We are a small team of women in Poland. Local women artisans shape the wooden pins, then our team engraves and finishes every one in our workshop. Many of us are mothers, grandmothers and home bakers too. My daughter now helps me in the workshop.

When you buy from us, you support local women and their families, not a factory.

The Pastrymade team, five women, standing between racks of engraved rolling pins in the workshop — Our team in the workshop, today

Since 2015, more than 250,000 home bakers have baked with our rolling pins. I still read your messages and look at the photos of your cookies.Every one of them reminds me why I started.— Karolina

Your turn to bake something special

Pick a design you love. Roll it over your dough, cut, and bake. The pattern stays after baking. In every package you will find our recipes and baking tips, so your first batch turns out beautifully.

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