Meet the faces behind W.H.I.P Patisserie

Cédric

Hi, I am Cedric Manile; W.H.I.P Patisserie co-founder, French born and trained pastry chef with extensive experience across France, London, Tuscany and Perth.

Most days, you can find me in the kitchen experimenting with new flavours combinations and desserts recipes. I am mostly known for my crazy and fun side, I am a people person, always trying to joke around and challenge my friends.

At the age of 23, I was short-listed in the Zagat London’s 30 under 30 while working for Dining, a Japanese fine dining restaurant. With a diverse cultural background (French, Armenian, Italian), I like to bring new flavours combinations to life and not stick to conventions and traditions. As a pastry chef, I am proud to say that my job is my passion and I thrive with novelty and experimentation. After recently working in Perth’s top restaurant; Wildflower, a passion for native plants and flavours bit me which I will endeavour to share in my modern takes on patisseries.

With over 10 years working in an omni environment, I decided to give a new challenge to my career by working with plant based ingredients to align with my values. With the difficulty to find classic pastries made vegan, I decided to bring my ideas to life with W.H.I.P Patisserie.

When I am not busy experimenting or brewing Kombucha, you can catch me out either farmers market shopping, eating -somewhere, a lot-, playing touch Rugby, hidden in a flotation tank, playing Pokémon Go or on my laptop playing RPG games or watching the latest Japanese animes.

Laura

Hi, I am Laura Allieres (I challenge you to pronounce this right), the other half of W.H.I.P Patisserie! French born and trained marketing specialist, I am a multiple interests person with the inability to specialise in one single subject. It’s a good thing, they say! After graduating, I decided to try my luck in London and give a new direction to my professional and personal life. Although my professional life took many directions, I met Cedric and followed him to Perth in 2013 which led us where we are today.

Well, my personal life did take an other direction when I realised I became lactose intolerant and that I couldn’t eat my usual croissants and tarts. With adaptation time came life changing pieces of information and heart breaking videos that made me realise that I could not keep eating and consuming the way I was. Transitioning to a vegetarian and Vegan diet did not come quickly but I am so happy with my new lifestyle that I would not change it.

This brought me so much joy with variety in my meals but frustration when it came to desserts and sweets. I am a sweet tooth but I was so frustrated to only see the same options when it came to dairy-free and vegan desserts that I wanted to create a common place for Vegan, dairy free and egg free diets which became W.H.I.P Patisserie.

When I am not busy uploading the latest Instagram picture (follow us!), you can see me taking photographies of pretty much everything, hanging out in Farmers markets with Cedric, trying to nail a front flip at the gym, spending too much time in libraries and book stores -especially flipping through art and cook books- or at home hugging our cat / trying not to kill my plants.