Warm Gingerbread Memories

Princess Camille Birthday

Sugar Egg Wedding Favor

Tea and cookies

Arthur Party Cookies and Figures

Nutcracker Ballet Cake

Thomas the Tank Engine Birthday Cake

Morning Glory Cake

Spring Gingerbread Cottage

Halloween Cake

Chocolate fondant--yum!

Cake for someone special

Mini cakes for individual service--perfect for weddings or bridal showers!

Hearts

Sugar Hearts and Chocolate Hearts....say I love you everyday.

Cameo Rose

White chocolate faux Faberge eggs made by Elizabeth Harrison were formerly sold at Dandelion in San Francisco. They were also featured in Victoria Magazine. I love carrying on the tradition.

Tiny Mother's Day Cake

Buttercream Icing with tiny rosebuds; single serving cake.

Birthday Cupcake

Perfect for a princess themed birthday party.

Fondant feathers and flowers

The flowers and lace are molded fondant, birdies are hand shaped fondant.

Flower Fairy

This fanciful flower fairy adorns a tiny heart sugar box.

Chocolate Fans and Heart Box Wedding Favors

These little wish boxes made of white chocolate (the heart and fans in front are tinted pink) filled with Jordan almonds make nice wedding favors.

Chocolate Party Eggs

Chocolate Party Favors can be made to fit any theme.

This year's Easter egg hatch

Valentine cookie houses

Baby Shower Gingerbread House

These are custom made to order exclusively for La Place du Soleil in San Francisco.

Tami's Heart of Gold

This was a custom order for Tami in Florida as a gift to her sweetheart.

Halloween is sneaking up on us....

Happy Birthday Nana-she's 92 today!

Day of the Dead / Halloween Sugar Eggs

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The charm of panorama eggs is what's lurking inside...why not hide a shrunken head in the peep window for Halloween?

Mon Ami

Nothing says love like chocolate....

Sugar in Bloom

Sugar bouqets make lovely centerpieces ...they never wilt and won't give you allergies.

Mardi Gras Sugar Egg

This Mardi Gras Egg is for Danica in honor of New Orleans, the city she loves.

Chocolate Ferris Wheel

When I told my husband I was going to make a chocolate carousel he said "a ferris wheel and roller coaster too?" Sorry, no ferris wheel or roller coaster. The carousel was hard enough. The first one out of dark chocolate sort of just melted as I was trying to put it together since it was 90 degrees and humid yesterday. My daughter Sunny told me that she read San Francisco is the center of the chocolate universe so with revived spirit I set to work again. Fate was on my side; last night and this morning it was much cooler, so the second try out of white chocolate is better. There's a smaller version carousel too, that might be well suited to a small cake topper. It's all in a chocolate day's work, and of course, the best thing about chocolate work is melting down and reincarnating or simply eating the mistakes.

More cupcakes Incognito

Neapolitan was always my favorite ice cream as a kid. Now the neapolitan memory has manifested as a cupcake...with nuts and a cherry on top of course. A cupcake is the perfect size for a birdy nest.

Cupcakes in Disguise

Cupcakes are fun to dress mine up in all kinds of disguises. What could bring out the kid in you more than a carousel horse cupcake? You'd think the Sonoma mascot would be a grape, but it's a cow...hence the Sonoma Cow cupcake.. The Princess' skirt hides a chocolate cupcake. The scrumptious chocolate fondant fan cupcake is a takeoff on the design by Mich Turner for Paul and Heather's wedding cake.

San Francisco Opera Party Favors

Several years back I made hundreds of little wine buckets like these out of molded sugar for Dandelion, a one of a kind boutique in San Francisco.
The owners of Dandelion commissioned me to do them for the San Francisco Opera Gala. What a priviledge that was!
Notice the "ice" in the buckets - that's sugar too. I was going nuts looking for large sugar crystals all over the country online and wound up finding them a block away from my apartment at Haigs International Deli store on Clement Street. They have all kinds of strange and wonderful stuff you've probably never tried before. In fact, thats true of many stores on Clement Street (also known as the other-less touristy- China town).

Which came first, the Bunny or the Egg?

Sugar Eggs at various stages of production cover every flat surface in our house at Eastertime. Susan's Storeroom in gorgeous San Anselmo has been selling my little sugar babies for 2 years. It's great to actually get past the friends and family stage when you are trying to market your passion.