who is sugar?
We are Stephanie Crocker, self taught pastry chef, and husband John McCaig, chief tasting engineer. It's not that we loved desserts enough to start a bakery, it's that we loved life enough to take advantage of every opportunity. Life's simple pleasures are so sweetly expressed in pastry so it made perfect sense to bring that passion to the people around us. We bake all of our desserts from scratch using the best wholesome ingredients without preservatives.

How it all started
In 2001, we purchased a house with an old overgrown apple tree. The following fall our tree was full of huge apples. We picked, peeled, cored and sliced buckets of apples and made pies and applesauce which we gave to all our friends. Soon, the caramel apple tartlet was born and we were inspired to start a dessert business. We needed a name so one night my husband and I were out to dinner and looked on the table to find a packet of sugar. It seemed obvious that our bakery should be called "Sugar" because it was simple and sweet, and perfectly expressed our passion for pastry and of course each other.

Over the course of about a year while I still worked as a web designer, I read about baking chemistry, tried tons of recipes, tweaking them and came up with new combinations. We developed four flavors of tarts and did some market research to figure out who would buy our products and what they would pay for them.

Sugar started selling tarts wholesale in September 2003. In 2004, we also expanded to include hand pressed shortbread as well as petit fours and other seasonal treats. Though the things we make vary with the seasons and our moods, one thing stays the same: we are passionate about making the best desserts in Seattle. I don't think anybody can complain when they're in the business of making people smile.

stephanie crocker
owner/pastry chef/accountant/delivery driver

our first set of samples

mission statement
To provide high quality desserts to retail and wholesale clients. To be creative in every aspect of the business, direct in our approach to succeed, and have fun along the way.

Donation Requests
We receive a large number of donation requests every week. While we wish we could honor every request, our focus is on charities that will directly assist cancer patients through research and direct assistance. We do not make contributions to religious, fraternal, political or labor groups. Donation requests must be received one month prior to the event. Requests may be submitted for consideration by emailing us. Thank you