Chef Lauren Klein Wiki, Age, Spring Baking Championship
Lauren Klein Biography – Lauren Klein Wiki
Lauren Klein is a pastry chef, chocolatier and owner of candy company Handcrafted Chocolate in Monmouth County, NJ. She is a contestant on season 11 of Food Network’s “Spring Baking Championship.” She won the Pastry Con Chocolatier Competition in 2024.
Lauren learned to cook by making scrambled eggs in her grandmother’s kitchen, taking cooking classes at the local rec center with her mother, and watching Chef Emeril Lagasse on Food Network with her father.
She attended the culinary program at Freehold High School, where she fell in love with pastry. A summer internship at Jean-Georges in New York City came next, followed by culinary school at Johnson & Wales, and jobs in the New York City kitchens of Danny Meyer and Mario Batali.
The pandemic brought Lauren back home to Freehold Township, and she worked at Broad Street Dough Co., Pascal & Sabine, and Heirloom at the St. Laurent in Asbury Park.
In between, she launched Handcrafted Chocolate, which offers hand-painted bon bons in more than a dozen flavors (seasonal ones include Irish coffee, whiskey caramel and pretzel, and mint cookie). Lauren sells her chocolates, which also include peanut butter cups, caramels and candy bars, online and at pop-up markets.
Lauren Klein Age
Chef Lauren Klein was born in 1994 in Freehold, New Jersey.
Lauren Klein Spring Baking Championship
Shore-based chocolatier and pastry chef Lauren Klein is competing on Food Network’s Spring Baking Championship season 11. She is one of 13 bakers featured on the 11th season of the show, which premieres Monday, March 10. Contestants bake for judges Duff Goldman, Nancy Fuller and Kardea Brown in hopes of winning $25,000 and a feature in Food Network Magazine.
In the first episode of “Spring Baking Championship,” the bakers will be “challenged to use flavor, texture and design to craft a flower-themed dessert that reflects their unique personalities,” according to Food Network.
“Throughout the competition, they take on enchanting challenges, including ‘squared off’ fruit entremets celebrating the blocky, adventurous world of ‘A Minecraft Movie,’ intricate butterfly-shaped napoleons, ice-cream-filled cake bombs with a glow-in-the-dark twist, three-layer cakes inspired by Marie Antoinette’s iconic gravity-defying hairdo and more,” reads foodnetwork.com.
Tattoos
Spring Baking Championship contestant Lauren Klein has colorful tattoos on her arms.
Lauren Klein’s Instagram handle is @handcraftedchocolate.
