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Miki Lad

Miki Lad

Medical student at Rutgers and brain tumor researcher at UCSF who competed on The Great American Baking Show as a finalist baker and viral social media personality known for elaborate multi-layer cakes.

Jun 12, 2026

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28:36
yes,
28:38
macarons were like my first big bake and the way that they started or my first like hard bake.
28:44
And the way that I got into that was I took French growing up, like in grade school.
28:51
And we had this French fair every year and you could present on whatever topic you wanted.
28:55
And if you were lucky, you would get a food topic.
28:57
And instead of having to do like a boring presentation, you could just serve the food and talk about the food.
29:02
I was lucky enough to get that one year.
31:00
that something that you actually do, Mindy, or was that your cheeky caption?

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