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Dawn Catherine Pascale is a member of the Fontbonne class of 1986. She is the founder and head baker of Om Sweet Home, a specialty bakery that focuses on plant based and gluten-free pastries, desserts and products. 

Dawn launched Simply Home Goods, a traditional baked goods company with the mission of delivering simply homemade, made-to-order decadence. Her made-from-scratch cakes, cookies, and pies are created with only the highest quality ingredients and she takes pride in serving them to private clients, family, and friends as a side-business since 2005. When Dawn was laid off from her job at Citigroup in January 2013, she knew that it was time to pursue her passion full time. While she enjoyed indulging in homemade treats, Dawn has always sought to use the most wholesome, healthy, and planet-friendly ingredients. This led her to register for the Natural Gourmet Institute’s  Vegan Baking Boot Camp that was taught by the “queen of vegan desserts”, Chef Fran Costigan.  

Through the course, she was introduced to baking without dairy, eggs, and any refined sugar products. As her business expanded, Dawn found more and more people asking for products that met specific dietary restrictions. She saw this as an opportunity to create good-for-you, scrumptious and mindful desserts that appeal to everyone regardless of food sensitivities, allergies, lifestyles and preferences. So she got to work reformulating her Simply Home Goods recipes into vegan and gluten-free creations and launched Om Sweet Home in May 2013. 

She looks forward to expanding her wholesale baking business and growing Om Sweet Home, Non-Dairy Butter Alternative into a national brand. 

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