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Heather Luse
Housing and Food Services
Penn State Bakery
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Heather Luse, left, begins the day early, reviewing bakery orders with Housing and Food Services production manager Reed Stouffer. The Penn State Bakery provides breads, cookies, cakes and other baked goods to all of Penn State's residence halls, the Bryce Jordan Center, the Nittany Lion Inn and Penn Stater Conference Center.
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A sprinkle of flour keeps dough from sticking to the counter as Heather Luse, co-manager and executive pastry chef, prepares to roll out fruit tart shells. The Penn State Bakery provides cookies, cakes, breads and other baked goods to the HUB, all University Park residence halls, the Creamery and both Penn State hotels. Special orders also are available at the facility. Go to www.hfs.psu.edu/cookies for more information.
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Heather Luse, co-manager and executive pastry chef at the Penn State Bakery, rolls dough into pans to prepare fruit tarts at the Housing and Food Services bakery facility on the University Park campus. Heather enjoys the creativity her job allows and likes working with her colleagues at the bakery on menu planning and recipe development.
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Creating delicious and attractive dessert items is part of the day-to-day work at the Penn State Bakery. The facility provides baked goods to all of the residence halls, the HUB food services operation, the Nittany LIon Inn and the Penn Stater Conference Center. Heather Luse, co-manager and executive pastry chef, oversees the production of more than 40 thousand special-order pastries a year.
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Heather Luse, pastry chef and manager of the Penn State Bakery, visited with Mike Conron, left, as he measured and scaled batter for bundt cakes. The Penn State Bakery produces more than 14 thousand cakes a year for the University community.
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Bundt cake batter is measured and poured for baking at the Penn State Bakery facility on the University Park campus. Co-manager Heather Luse oversees the recipe-planning for more than 14,000 cakes annually. The facility provides baked goods to all University Park residence halls, the Creamery, the Bryce Jordan Center and both University hotels.
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Scooping cupcake batter into baking trays is just one part of the early-morning work being done daily at the Penn State Bakery. Heather Luse, executive pastry chef and co-manager of the facility, has been with the bakery for 18 years and organizes all menu-planning and recipe-development. She also likes to get involved in the day-to-day prep work and baking whenever she is able.
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Heather Luse, left, helped Penn State Bakery staff member Laurie Woodring organize and count a large, special order of assorted muffins. Luse is the co-manager the Penn State Bakery and oversees the baking and distribution of more than 7 thousand dozen assorted muffins to the Penn State community annually. The Penn State Bakery provides baked goods as well as special-order pastries to all of the University's residence halls, hotels and cafes.
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The Penn State Bakery produces more than 700,000 dinner rolls annually for the Penn State community. Bakery co-manager and executive chef Heather Luse oversees the daily production of cookies, cupcakes, pies and all other baked goods for Penn State. She also coordinates the day-to-day menu-planning and recipe-development at the facility.
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Heather Luse, executive pastry chef and co-manager of Penn State's Housing and Food Services Bakery, slides a fresh tray of dinner rolls into a cooling rack. For more photos, click on the image above.
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Heather Luse, co-manager and executive pastry chef at the Penn State Bakery, applies icing rosettes to a special-order cake at Penn State's Housing and Food Services Bakery facility. Both special orders and the daily production of baked goods for the University community are created at the University Park facility. Luse has worked at the Penn State Bakery for 18 years.
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Heather Luse is the co-manager and executive pastry chef at Penn State's bakery facility on the University Park campus. She leads the training and coordinating of the bakery staff and organizes all menu planning and recipe development. Beyond making breads, muffins, cupcakes and more, her favorite part of the job is collaborating with the motivated people she works with day to day. Heather has worked at Penn State for 18 years.
