Molly has a long history with food. HER love & curiosity started as a wee one when she still had to stand on a drawer to reach the counter. Her mother remembers when a large box of cookbooks arrived in the mail - TO HER SURPRISE, a 5-year-old Molly had managed to order THE set from a TV ad.
The Little Dipper Cafe & Bakery is a manifestation of Molly’s passion for food & community. At The Little Dipper, food is meant to be savored AND SHARED.
Come EAT with us!
Press
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"Pastries will be the stars at the Little Dipper."
METHOW VALLEY NEWS - As a child, Starcher loved working with her hands. The daughter of a Chelan-based potter and goldsmith, Starcher had strong models for creativity and entrepreneurship, which manifested in her early years in a robust business selling painted rocks, which perhaps became the inspiration for her later passion: baking and decorating elaborate cupcakes, cookies, macaroons and other pastries…
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"Molly Starcher: The Art of Baking"
METHOW ARTS - Like a musician immersed in their concerto, Molly Starcher finds her flow state mixing ingredients, flavors, and designing pastries in the kitchen. “A painter develops some sort of intuition, and they’re drawn to certain colors,” she says, “I’m drawn to certain flavors. I’m not making decisions all the time – it just happens.”
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"Mountain towns are facing a housing crisis. Can the Methow break the mold?"
THE SEATTLE TIMES - Cold didn’t faze Molly Starcher as she hauled 20-pound bags of confectioners’ sugar barehanded from Winthrop’s snow-covered boardwalk into The Little Dipper Café & Bakery on a zero-degree late December day. Starcher, 27, graduated from a business incubator program and opened the sweet shop in September to showcase her Nutella-stuffed cookies and what she claims are the only macarons within a 100-mile radius.