Maya-Camille Broussard

The Honours

Her most visible recognition came when she appeared as a featured pastry chef on Netflix’s Bake Squad. The show brought her pies and pastry work before a wider audience, introducing her style to viewers who might never have encountered Justice of the Pies in Chicago. Yet the attention did not create her foundation; it simply illuminated what had already been carefully built. By the time Bake Squad arrived, the bakery was already established as the heart of her work, and the social mission behind it was already part of the story.

The Craft

Broussard’s specialty is direct and specific: she is a pastry chef and pie specialist. That precision matters, because her work is rooted in a singular focus on what pie can be when it is treated with invention rather than habit. She has described her approach in plain terms: “I am always thinking about pie varieties that I can make that will set me apart from other people.” The sentence captures both her method and her mindset—restless, inventive, and always reaching for combinations that feel distinctive without losing the comfort that makes pie so beloved. Her craft is not about ornament for ornament’s sake, but about finding flavor paths that are memorable and unmistakably hers.

The Career

She built Justice of the Pies in 2014, and from that point forward the bakery became more than a business address; it became the anchor of her career. In Chicago, the role of owner has defined her work with unusual clarity, fusing her pastry practice with the social mission that shaped the bakery from the beginning. The business has carried both elements together, so that every pie and pastry emerges from a framework designed to do more than sell dessert. Her career also reached television through Bake Squad, extending her reputation beyond the bakery itself and widening the circle of people who could encounter her work. Still, the center holds. Even with that visibility, the core of her work remains the same: pies, pastry, and a business structure intended to do more than sell dessert. That continuity gives her profile its strength—an entrepreneur and pastry chef whose public recognition has not blurred the original purpose of the bakery she created.

Signature

Maya-Camille's signature dishes include basil key lime pie, caramel apple crumble, lemon lime cake, Salted Caramel Peach Pie, and Dark-Cherry Crumble Pie.

In Their Words “I am always thinking about pie varieties that I can make that will set me apart from other people.”