Look 01
The Sagaponack
Blush buttercream, lacquered Morello cherries, a six-foot silk bow. A fortieth birthday on the lawn.
By commission only · Twelve celebrations a month · Now reserving summer 2027
The Summer 2027 book is open
Cakes worth
the waitlist.
Sculptural celebration cakes for bat mitzvahs, milestone birthdays and long summer weekends on the East End. Designed with you in our Tribeca salon, made by hand in Brooklyn, and placed on the table by the two women who drew it.
12
Commissions a month
6
Weeks, tasting to table
212
Sugar roses, one cake
“The most coveted reservation of the summer is not a table. It is a Sugar Crush cake.”
Maison Quarterly, Summer issue
THE EAST END REVIEW
Maison Quarterly
FÊTE
The Ledger
SALT & LINEN
The collection · Summer 2026
Recent commissions
Every cake is numbered, drawn once and never repeated. Shown like a collection, one look at a time, with the families' blessing.
Look 02
The Lambeth
Four tiers of over-piping, hand-painted sage leaves and sugar pearls. A bat mitzvah on the Upper East Side.
Look 03
The East Hampton
Sage buttercream, butter silk and three hundred sugar sweet peas. A garden lunch under the wisteria.
Look 04
The Tribeca
Blush scallops and sugar pearls, each one piped by hand. A first birthday in a Franklin Street loft.
The atelier
Two best friends.
One standard.
Margot and Tess met at fifteen, in a bunk at summer camp in the Berkshires, and have been arguing about buttercream ever since. Margot trained in pastry in Paris and spent four years in the sugar room of a Left Bank maison. Tess spent a decade producing events in Manhattan, the kind with seating charts in three colors.
Today they work from a commercial kitchen in Red Hook, Brooklyn, with a team of five. Every flower is shaped by hand from sugar paste, petal by petal. Every cake is drawn in watercolor before a single egg is cracked. They take twelve commissions a month, and not one more.
Margot
The cakes
Tess
The celebrations
The arrival
It arrives the way it was made.
Every cake leaves Red Hook chilled, inside a hand-tied hatbox, sealed in wax with the guest of honor's initial. The ribbon is cut on site, never before. The box is yours to keep.
3
Yards of silk
1
Initial in wax
36°F
All the way east
The commission
From first tasting to the last slice
- 01
The tasting
A private appointment in our Tribeca salon. Six cakes, silk and ribbon swatches, and a long conversation about the party, the house and the person it is for.
- 02
The drawing
Within a week Margot sends a watercolor of your cake, painted to scale, with every flower and ribbon named. Revise it as many times as you like.
- 03
The making
Sugar flowers begin three weeks out. The cake itself is baked, filled and piped in the final four days, so it reaches you at its very best.
- 04
The placing
Margot and Tess drive it themselves, from Manhattan to Montauk, assemble it on site and stay until the candles are lit.
Begin a design
Sketch your centerpiece
A first impression to bring to your tasting. Choose the height, the sponge, the buttercream and the finish, and Margot will paint it properly.
Certificate of commission
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Drawn as you choose above, and brought to your tasting in Tribeca.
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Margot
The cakes
Tess
The celebrations
Investment
Three ways to celebrate
From Red Hook to the East End
Every cake travels chilled, with one of us beside it. We assemble on site and take the stand home.
Manhattan placing from $450Westchester from $650The Hamptons from $950Assembly and attendant included
Kind words
From the families we baked for
“Four tiers of pearls and over-piping for Ava's bat mitzvah. Our planner cried. Three mothers asked for Tess's number before the hora.”
“They drove a six-tier cake to Bridgehampton on the hottest Saturday in July and it arrived looking like a painting. People photographed it before they photographed us.”
“We booked our son's bar mitzvah table eleven months ahead, and I would do it again tomorrow. Margot's watercolor is framed in his room.”
Reserve a consultation
Begin with
a tasting
We accept twelve commissions a month. Summer Saturdays in the Hamptons are usually spoken for by February, and bat mitzvah dates by the autumn before.
Tastings are held Tuesday to Thursday in our Tribeca salon, by appointment only.
Atelier@sugarcrushbakery.com
The book, this season
Twelve a month, never thirteen
- December 2026Fully reserved
- February 20273 remain
- May 20277 remain
- June 20272 Saturdays
Updated each Monday by Tess
Received with thanks
Your tasting is being set.
Tess will write within two days to choose a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday in the Tribeca salon. Margot will have six sponges and your palette waiting on the marble.
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