MARISOL MORLEY
FOUNDER | Ceo | master treatmaker 

Marisol Morley is a first-generation, born-and-bred New Yorker. She grew up in the heart of the Upper East Side, in a fourth floor walkup, with her parents, two siblings, and one tiny kitchen.

There, she learned that limited space was never an excuse for quality or quantity. On any given night, endless tapas, a beautiful Paella and pitchers of Sangria would magically emerge from that small-even-for-NYC kitchen.

Marisol was five when she asked her mother to teach her to make a cake. Pretty soon she was making meringues, coconut ice cream, Colombian parva cookies and flan.

Twenty-nine years, a career in the music industry, and many other jobs later, she went back to her roots. What started as a pastime of making cookie boxes as gifts for friends and family, lead to the birth of Tiny Kitchen Treats.

In 2017, Marisol moved the team into their current bakeshop in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Even though the kitchen is much bigger nowadays and Tiny Kitchen Treats cookies are in HIGH demand – by royals and top brands alike— the shop still keeps the order minimum at a dozen in a long-promised effort to keep their cookies accessible.

Marisol still lives on the Upper East Side, just down the block from that old brownstone, with her husband, their two kids, a menagerie of plants, and her not-so-tiny dream. 

Denise flores
Shop manager

As shop manager, Denise is the glue that holds TKT together. You can find this born and bred UWS girl bouncing around at the shop, graciously managing both the FOH and BOH, seamlessly answering client emails while guiding her staff on the day’s tasks.

The shop mainly comprises of folks from all different walks of life, but Denise has known her calling was in pastry for a while now. In fact, she’s been so honed-in that she studied business management at Fordham University and pastry at ICE (New York City’s prestigious Institute of Culinary Education)…and here we are- very happy that she did.

Aside from being the world’s most efficient multi-tasker and existing on a diet comprising solely of candy, snacks, and cream cheese- Denise enjoys spending time with her baby nieces, singing loudly to RnB, and engaging in competitive anything with her family. In fact, Steve Harvey- if you’re reading this, you need to have the Flores family on Family Feud, because they’re already watching and yelling like they’re playing.

BETTY WU
Head Sugar Artist

Betty Wu is our lead sugar artist and is pretty legit (and not just because she’s another bonafide New Yorker hailing form the Bronx).

Graduating in 2013 from  the Institute of Culinary Education, Betty has been making her way through the world of sweets. Immediately after graduating, she chose to dive into the world of chocolate. Pretty soon, Betty was a master of bonbons, bars and truffles, oh my!  

After her fill of the chocolate world (not chocolate, as Betty rivals Denise’s sweet tooth around here), Betty took a sharp turn and started working at a NYC bake shop as head cake decorator and of course, now here with us, as head sugar artist and Seamless lunch organizer.

But Betty isn’t all chocolate, cookies, and forcing us to order the best dang Thai food in Crown Heights. Betty is also one tough cookie that spends her free time playing with her cat, mountain climbing, running marathons and stuff and participating  in Dragonboat on the weekends with her team, United East!

Stephanie espinal
Head baker

When we first met Stephanie, she told us about her crazy Dominican family and her deep and unwavering love of baking. She described, in passionate detail, the laborious process of folding layers of butter and dough to make the perfect flakey croissant and the hard-work it took to start her donut business. We knew right away that this fellow butter lover was the perfect fit for our foodie girl boss team.

This NYC girl graduated from Albany with her geography major and now spends most of her time traveling (read: eating) her way around the globe- noshing on Japanese ramen, enjoying fresh tacos and ice-cold micheladas in Mexico, or hunting down the perfect baguette and beurre in the south of France (hello flight attendant perks).

Even though Steph's career is spent in the sky, she spends her days off on land, here at the shop, cracking us up with her never-ending wit, stories about “runway Jesus”, and oh yeah- whipping up dough, frosting, and icing and making sure everything is baked up, “Asi como tiene que ser”. Ya tu sabes!

Alice Shen
assistant BAKER and TREATMAKER

Alice hails from the sunshine coasts and beings her sunshine Cali girl positive vibes wherever she goes. After graduating from high school, Alice decided to pursue a career in medicine. In China. Talk about an early plot twist.

Anyhow, after receiving her MBBS from Sichuan University, Alice realized her passion was actually....in the culinary arts. This crazy dream led her to Belgium where she graduated with a pastry degree from Syntra (which makes her the shop’s MVP since we know we are covered on the medical front) and now to us- where she is mastering the art of royal icing while being a new mama to beautiful baby Marcel (and something tells us those delivery room doctors were kept on their toes). 

andrea garcia
director of social media & Public relations

Andrea Garcia

We're always Hiring!

Want to join our bad @$$ team of girl bosses (boys welcome too)? Send over your resume and a cover letter telling us why you'd be a good fit: info@tinykitchentreats.com