Sugar bakery offers ghoulish delights

October 31, 10:27 AMSeattle Food ExaminerTraca Savadogo

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Sugar Bakery's owner and master of the mixer, Stephanie Crocker.

You know Sugar, the pink striped booth from the farmer's market?  The one whose owner often sported matching pink hair? Every week, I'd made a beeline for their booth.  I looked forward to noshing on a treat from Sugar, while I moseyed around the market, selecting produce for the week.   Then I heard, they went uptown.   

Sugar's gone bricks and mortar.
 

Their First Hill location sports a large glass window, filled with delectable delights.  Inside, the space is warm and cheery, with the familiar pink on pink vertical lines.  On my visit, the walls were adorned with Jessie Oleson's (aka Cakespy) adorable cupcake-inspired prints.  (P.S. if you want one of Jessie's designs, I spotted most under $20, framed!)



Large cookies satisfy a home-baked sweet tooth, and the cotton candy colored walls are adorned with a showing of art by Cakespy. 

The pastries at the Sugar Bakery are executed with a light hand, allowing the ingredients to shine.  A lemon cookie, almost like a cake in texture, glistened with sparkling sanding sugar and a subtle lemon flavor that left me craving more!  The lavender shortbread, bought on a whim at the farmer's market one day, is so hauntingly delicious, it prompted this visit.  Tender, with a fine crumb and a texture that is just sublime.  Not too coarse, not too soft...but just right.

On this visit, the shop was all decked out for Halloween with ghosts, pumpkins, and graveyard-inspired treats.

Housemade marshmallows, ghostly sugar cookies, and bon bons on a stick.  Oh my!


Buttercream pumpkin, coconut, and these adorable "Rip" desserts are layered cake with buttercream and a crumbled cookie top.
 

 
More decorated sugar cookies and my favorite, Lavender Shortbread.

Sugar Bakery + Cafe is a labor of love, which is evident in both the communal spirit and the made-from-scratch pastries.  Read more about the bakery in this piece by the PI's Rebekah Denn.  Those Thanksgiving pies that helped raise funds to pay off medical bills will be available again this year (pumpkin and apple).  Stake your claim while they're still accepting orders!