sugarseattle's New Bakery Makes News

[Pam R]

Society member Stephanie Crocker (sugarseattle) and her new bakery, Crocker's Sugar Bakery and Cafe just got a great plug in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

The art of baking has been the easy part for Stephanie Crocker -- the fragile shortbreads, the dainty minitarts, the coconut snowballs that make a customer's knees buckle in pleasure.

That joy fills a particular niche in Seattle, where one of the crumby realities is that most coffee shops have lousy pastries -- dry, plastic-wrapped, shortening-filled mouthfuls of wasted calories. Few can offer what Crocker's Sugar Bakery and Cafe (1014 Madison St.) creates: the savory scones tenderized by buttermilk and flavored with goat cheese and scallions, tasting like a slice of quiche magically converted into pure pastry; the mini "snowballs," a gut reaction to Crocker's childhood disappointment at finding chocolate in the middle of a Hostess Snowball. Her retaliatory invention was a round coconut cake topped with thick coconut pastry cream, brushed with coconut glaze and rolled in a blizzard of white shavings.

Check out the link above for the rest of the story -- and a recipe for some of those scones.

Congratulations, Stephanie!

[K8memphis]

Wow wonderful story!! All of it. Especially the cancer free part. The pie sale. That alone is beyond tremendous. Plus a bakery/coffee shop wow wow wow. And a recipe too, what a heart!

Multiplied Congratulations. <clapping hands, raised high Westward>

[tsquare]

Sugar will be in Bon Appetit's Best of the Bakeshops - September 2008!

great news!

Congrats Stephanie! And by the way, filling your cupcakes with creamy goodness really does make them above and beyond the higher profile cc's in town.

[tsquare]

And another kudo - Bon Appetit's Best of the Bakeshops - September 2008.

news!

Congrats Stephanie.

And by the way - filling your cupcakes with creamy goodness really sets yours apart from the higher profiled cc's around town.