help our fabulous
team Grow
Be a part of creating fancy and fun baked goods, coffee, and desserts.
We offer motivated and dependable people the opportunity to bring sweetness
to people's lives in a creative way. Through competitive salaries, you
will have the chance to create a successful career and help make sugar
one of the most fabulous bakeries in Seattle.
Our Mission
Our goal is to provide unique and high quality pastries and desserts to retail and wholesale clients.
We desire to provide a positive work environment that fosters the growth of our team members.
Our core values in our products and production can be expressed in the following order of importance:
- Quality
- Consistency
- Efficiency
We will be creative in every aspect of the business, direct in our approach to succeed, and have fun along the way.
We have the following positions available:
1. Part Time Barista
2. Freelance Cake Decorator
3. Pastry Intern (unpaid)
Part Time Barista
Sugar Bakery & Café is looking for a highly experienced barista that knows their way around a manual espresso machine. If you have a passion for coffee, love top quality pastries, and have a fabulous personality, we’d love for you join our team.
Our ideal candidate will have:
- At least 6 months experience with a manual espresso machine timing shots and adjusting grind as well as creating excellent milk foam.
- Excellent customer service, sales and communication skills.
- Desire to be a team player and make a solid contribution to the success of the company.
- Attention to detail and the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time.
- A valid King County Food Handler’s Permit within 1 week of starting.
- Availability to fill shifts 11am-6:30pm, plus the occasional Saturday.
Please visit http://www.sugarbakerycafe.com to learn more about us.
The position is 3-4 shifts/week, about 20-25 hours.
Please email your cover letter and resume in word or text format to barista@sugarbakerycafe.com. No phone calls please.
Wedding Cake Designer
Sugar Bakery & Café is looking for a highly experienced cake decorator to take the lead in growing our wedding cake business. This is a freelance opportunity, meaning you will work as needed. This is both a sales and pastry position.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Work with pastry chef to develop and design a wedding portfolio.
- Work with pastry chef to create a cake tasting procedure that will help build the wedding cake business.
- Produce all cake tasting samples including prep work.
- Coordinate and lead all cake tastings with potential clients.
- Follow up with potential clients.
- Work with pastry chef to market and promote wedding cake business. Attend relevant seminars and shows as applicable.
- Produce, deliver, and setup all wedding cakes.
Our ideal candidate will be:
- Extremely self motivated, organized and business minded.
- Excellent customer service, sales and communication skills.
- Desire to be a team player and make a solid contribution to the success of the company.
- Attention to detail and the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time.
- A valid King County Food Handler’s Permit within 1 week of starting.
Please visit http://www.sugarbakerycafe.com to learn more about us.
This is a freelance position. You will be paid by the hour as work becomes available. Motivated individuals will help drive wedding cake sales to increase their hours.
Please email a cover letter and resume in word or text format with 3-4 samples of your work to decorator@sugarbakerycafe.com. No phone calls please.
pastry intern (Unpaid)
Internship Program
To tailor to the needs of both beginning and advanced culinary students, we offer 3 and 4 month unpaid internships. We require a 15-20 hour per week commitment in which the candidate will train in all areas of our production kitchen and retail shop. Because we are a very small bakery, with each shift, you will do a little bit of each station. Please send a cover letter detailing your experience, availability and preferred dates along with your resume to intern@sugarbakerycafe.com. No phone calls please.
Pantry prep and dough forming
Goal: assist with production of various fillings, frostings, doughs and cookie batters.
- Fill ingredient bins and pull pastries for morning bake
- Italian Meringue Buttercream, royal icing and cream cheese frosting
- Drop Cookie Batters
- Pastry Cream and Various Mousses
- Scones and miscellaneous breakfast pastries such as brioche
- Croissant (preferment, dough, turns, and forming)
Cake layer prep and baking
Goal: Produce cake layers and cupcakes for future use
- Pan Preparation
- Scaling and mixing various batters
- Baking off layers
- Wrapping and storing cakes
Crusts and Cutout Cookies
Goal: Produce dough for various crusts, line tart shells
- Produce pate sucre, chocolate short crust, and pie dough
- Rollout crusts for tartlets, medium and large tarts and pies
- Rollout cutout cookies and store
Baking
Goal: Assist in baking-off of various products each morning
- Breakfast pastries
- Cookies
- Tart shells
- Brioche loaves
Finishing
Goal: Decorate cupcakes, crumb coat, and gum paste decoration production
- Assist in filling and decorating cupcakes
- Assist in cake assembly, crumb coating and finishing
- Frost sugar cookies
Please send a cover letter detailing your experience, availability and preferred dates along with your resume to intern@sugarbakerycafe.com. No phone calls please.
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