Michael Goddard

Michael(Mike) Goddard born in 1951 in the UK. Studied at The Birmingham College of Food 1968- 70 culinary arts, 1973 basic and advanced baking pastry cooking and cake design and decoration then in 1985 Advanced Patisserie (2 distinctions for practical assessment and practical examination). Attended courses with Ewald Notter in Zurich in 1980s and Carlos Lischetti in 2013. He has a teaching degree and nearly 40 years teaching at technical colleges in England and Australia.

Mike's patisserie experience includes working at the Dorchester Hotel, London; The Bellevue Palace Hotel, Berne, Switzerland; The Cumberland Hotel, London (seconded for the Queen's Royal Garden Parties of 1976); The Newton Hotel, Nairn, Scotland and the Albany Hotel, Birmingham, England.

In 1990 after his midlife crisis (that's what his wife Trudie would tell you) he upped his young family and went to the other side of the world- Perth Australia to start with, then Canberra and finally Hobart in Tasmania.

Mike has won various competitions and has been a state and national judge for Work Skills in Australia. He was coach of the Tasmanian Artisan Cup team for four years achieving second place in its final year of operations. Mike was also chief judge for the National Baking Competitions and state judge for the Tasmanian Baking Awards on several occasions judging both bread and pastry cooking categories.

Second winner of the prestigious Arthur Denison Trophy awarded to him as the 1992 winner of the Australian National Scholarship Awards, he has continues to be involved to this day writing questions for the scholarship and marking the papers.

Mike has recently written "Modelling Australian Animals" and is opening a cake Artistry centre and training facility in Hobart, Tasmania. At present he not only teaches bakery and patisserie at the TAFE college but also runs his own cake decorating business called Angel Cakes.