PROFESSION: Pastry Chef, Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza 
CULINARY EDUCATION: AAB, Midwest Culinary Institute
FAVORITE SIMPLE FALL DESSERT RECIPE: Warm brown butter apple cake with crème fraiche sorbet, bourbon caramel and spicy glazed pecans

Megan is the Pastry Chef at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, a historic art-deco hotel in downtown Cincinnati. She creates desserts, chocolates, breads and pastries throughout the hotel including Orchids at Palm Court, the No. 1 restaurant in Cincinnati. Drawn to pastry by a fascination with the science of baking, she enrolled in pastry school and turned her passion into a promising career. In 2009, she won the American Culinary Federation’s Northeast Region Pastry Chef of the Year award.  Demonstrating a unique sense of fun and creative flair, Megan provides a fresh point of view and modern twist to classic dessert flavors promising that her desserts taste as good as they look.