Julie Deffense Artistry

About Julie Deffense Artistry

Julie Deffense is recognized as the leading luxury cake designer in Portugal. Born in Boston, Julie's Fine Arts education brought her to Portugal for designwork. Formerly an art director, and then an editorial design director on her own magazines, it was the love of Portuguese culture and sweets which reignited herlifelong passion for cooking and baking extraordinary cakes, in particular. Julie's love for baking began in the kitchen with her mother and grandmother. Living in Portugal, however, sparked her innate creative talent for luxury cake design. Julie evolved her career transitioning from editorial design work to become certifi ed as an expert in elaborate cake artistry. She studied with various renowned cake designers including multiple courses at the Wilton School of Cake Decorating and Confectionary Art in Illinois. By 2010, she had built increasing renown and reputation in Portugal for creating beautiful and delicious creations with establishment of novel ('pop-up') cake shops, popular decorating workshops and the launch of her luxury cake business. For almost 20 years, Julie and Jacques Deffense (the other passionate love of her life!) have resided just outside of Lisbon in beautiful coastal Cascais Ò currently the number one wedding destination in Europe. Portugal opened many doors for Julie. Her talent for high-end cake artistry attracted a loyal following and she is continually featured in many top European magazines, on wedding and lifestyle blogs, and is a baking and cake design expert on Portuguese television. With impressive mastery of the Portuguese language, Julie has also become a successful book author in Portugal. She's created three popular cookbooks and is currently working on her fourth book, to be published in English, entitled: Julie Deffense Artistry, A Life of Romance, Beauty, Culture, and Cake, to be published in late 2018.