kyras bake shop

About kyras bake shop

There is almost nothing more magical than celebrating your wedding day! Here at Kyra's we want to make sure that you have the best cake for a celebration everyone will enjoy!

The only 4-time winner of Cupcake Wars on the Food Network, Kyra Bussanich learned to bake gluten-free in a desire to reclaim her health. In her teens and early twenties, she spent eight years suffering from an autoimmune disease greatly exacerbated by a gluten intolerance.

After years of hospital visits and drastic drug treatments and the threat of surgery to remove part of her intestines, Kyra’s symptoms greatly improved within three days of going gluten-free– and totally abated within seven months.
As a dedicated dessert lover, Kyra shed many tears over the prospect of only being able to eat the dry and tasteless gluten-free goodies that were available at the time. She determined to challenge the status quo, attending the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu patisserie program and figuring out how to apply classical French baking techniques to her extensive kitchen experimentation with alternative gluten-free flours.

The result: award-winning bakery, Kyra’s Bake Shop, in Portland, Oregon with more than 125 varieties of treats, and baked goods that are even more delicious than their traditional flour-based counterparts and have gained notice from Huffington Post, USA Today, The Today Show, Food and Wine Magazine, and more.
Kyra’s favorite part of the job is playing with textures and flavors and developing exotic yet approachable pastries that delight everyone who eat them.