Sugar Cat Studio

I’m not even a sweet tooth, so this review is BEYOND AMAZING!!! I have used Alison a number of times to provide sweets for special events, but even more so as gifts! There is no better way to tell someone you love them, or are thankful, than with sugary goodness. Alison not only wanted to explore different flavors for my orders but also was so willing to complete my gluten free orders as well. I even froze some of the mini ones to save for myself, and came back days and days later and still enjoyed them!
She has also provided beautiful cupcakes for events, like a wedding, that I have photographed… it’s all in the details and she does not disappoint!
I could not recommend Sugar Cat Studio enough, and look forward to her upcoming release of her cookbook, Sweet, Savory & Sometime Boozy Cupcakes!!!

I adore Sugar Cat Studio. Alison is an incredible baker! I fell in love with her cupcakes a few years ago when I tried them for the first time at Corks N’ Crowns. She also baked an assortment of bourbon infused cupcakes (one with candied bacon) for my big birthday bash in 2013. They were a hit and everyone loved them!
Alison is very creative. She can take your cupcake ideas and concepts and turn them into a delicious treat that you won’t be able to stop eating; until of course they’re gone and you have to order more!
I highly recommend SCS! With Alison, you really can’t go wrong.

Sugar cat studio is a pretty good dessert place in SB. When I went there for vacation, staff was nice and friendly. Ali was very nice and attentive and she actually likes her job unlike most workers out there. Ordered 3 cupcakes. A lot of effort put into them. Very delicious. But I do not recommend eating +3 at a time or you’ll probably get a stomach ache. Means it’s good quality though! ;)

Alison was the best! I picked her based on a recommendation from a friend, and her winning my favorite baking show, Cupcake Wars. She impressed me so much in person with her wonderful flavors, flexible attitude and willingness to get exactly the flavors I wanted. We worked side by side to create the perfect and personalized flavors for my husband and I. I also have to add that I brought my gluten-​intolerant friend to test gluten-​free flourless chocolate cakes and it was delicious! My final flavors featured in my Dessert Barn with a buffet of desserts included:
1. «Mexican Hot Cocoa» — Cinnamon Chocolate cake with marshmellow frosting dusted with chocolate powder
2. «Jossi’s Oreo Cookie» –Chocolate Cake (not vanilla we decided) with vanilla frosting
3. «Really Red Velvet» — Red velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting and Mini Chocolate Chips
4. «Champagne Toast» — Summer Fruit with Champagne Frosting — Blueberry surprise in cake
5. «Meg’s Sweet & Salty» — Salted Caramel with Pearls around top
Thank you so much again Alison! Your cupcakes exceeded my expectations, were affordable compared to other bakeries we called and our guests raved about them all night! I also loved the beautiful cupcake platters provided in the photo below!

I have only wonderful things to say about Alison Reid and Sugar Cat Studio!!!
My husband and I were looking for a cupcake vendor to do our wedding cupcakes. We were referred to Alison from a local bakery. She was super friendly and offered to meet us for a cupcake tasting (previous vendors we looked at either wanted to charge or wouldn’t do one at all).
Alison brought several cupcakes for us to try and they were all fantastic! Never in my life have I tried a blueberry French toast cupcake — what a treat! And her cakebatter bark is divine. I think what I liked most about her was that she wanted our wedding cupcakes to be personal — even offering to make a special chocolate peanut butter cupcake (my husband’s favorite) for the reception. YUM!
Working with Alison was easy and seamless. She delivered 150 cupcakes the our wedding location — even boxing up a few for us to take home. She made 7 different flavors (at our request). They all looked absolutely perfect and we received endless compliments from our guests! We couldn’t have been more pleased.
I am a big fan of supporting local talent, and I’m an even bigger fan of supporting someone who works hard, has a stellar personality and provides an incredible product. That’s Alison all the way. Couldn’t be happier with our wedding cupcakes and her service. 5 stars for this one!!!

Had a taste of these delectable delights at Corks n Crowns and was hoping to buy a bunch for the road. They were so unique and creative! My favorite was Earl Grey Tea with Lemon Bourbon frosting — sounds like an odd combo but was deliciously light and fresh with a hint of naughty! She’s in her own class above that other fancy cupcake chain whose products are a little dry for my taste. Alas it seems she doesn’t yet have her own store and isn’t set up to ship these precious jewels. I’ll be checking her website periodically to see if she does.

My soul has had enough chicken soup, now it wants cupcakes! And the cupcakes that it wants come from Sugar Cat Studio!
I am keeping my review tiny and sweet much like Alison’s cupcakes. I eat mine at Corks n Crowns on Sundays, they come in delicious trios… always different, always amazing! Red Velvet? not likely. Expect the unexpected, Ever had Gin in a cupcake? How about bacon on top or a margarita cupcake for Cinco de Mayo? Damn, Alison could make a Spam cupcake taste like the best you have ever tried! I really think that the sweetness of these cupcakes is the reflection of the sweetness of the person who is baking them.
I haven’t read the other reviews but I am sure that they go on and on about Alison winning Cupcake wars. When I heard she was going to be on the show I had no doubt that she would win it.
If you need cupcakes for a birthday, an anniversary or a wedding, give Sugar Cat studio a call. You won’t be disappointed. I am reminded of this quote: «Weddings are always emotional; even the cupcakes are in tiers.»

Ali is amazing… best buttercream frosting ever, heck, best cupcakes ever! She’s so creative & talented and can make any cupcake that inspires you. I love her $ 5 cupcake tastings she has on Sundays at Corks ‘N Crowns. You get 3 mini-​cupcakes that are crazy good and they are paired with wine if you so choose to add-​on. Looking forward to bringing friends back to introduce them to the best in town! If you have a wedding or big event, Ali is more than capable to make it memorable and special with her divine cupcakes.

The best cupcakes, and Alison is a dream to work with. She was super flexible with my tasting appointment time (I had awful traffic coming up from LA to SB and had to reschedule), very available over email, and creative with my flavors. She did 100 cupcakes for my wedding in four flavors: French toast, tiramisu, peanut butter banana and chocolate with a meringue frosting. I don’t even like French toast but the cupcakes were amazing. We got a ton of compliments on these.
We had Montecito Confections do our wedding cake and in retrospect I wish we had asked Alison to do more cupcakes!

Every bit as good as Sprinkles in NYC (and Beverly Hills but I’m not driving from the Palisades to Beverly Hills for a cupcake unless it removes 10 pounds and 10 years and makes my stomach into a washboard and no cupcake to my knowledge possesses these magical powers) and far lighter than Crushcakes in SB!
I tried Ali’s spectacular St. Patrick’s Day cupcakes at Corks and Crowns and they impressed me so much, I brought half a dozen home for my boyfriend.
My favorite was the Shamrock Shake but the Bailey’s frosting on the chocolate cupcake was tremendous too.
Sugar Cat Studio cupcakes can be found at Corks ‘n Crowns many Sundays and I plan to me C and C a regular thing when I’m in town

It was a co-​workers birthday and we wanted to get her something tasty. Our co-​worker is gluten free, so I had the idea that we could get her gluten free cupcakes. I immediately contacted Sugar Cat Studio to see if they could do a gluten free cupcake. I saw the Cupcake Wars episode where they won and when I found out they were in Santa Barbara I vowed I would get their cupcakes at some point.
Ali baked us gluten-​free carrot pineapple coconut cupcakes with cinnamon cream cheese frosting. The cupcakes were incredible. They were by far the best cupcakes I’ve ever eaten. The birthday girl said they were the best gluten-​free cupcakes she’s ever had. Everyone on the team was incredibly impressed.
I can’t wait till I have another excuse to order more cupcakes and to try the other flavors! I can guarantee that I’ll be placing more orders in the future!

The first time I met Sugar Cat Studio’s Pink Champagne Cupcake, it was love at first bite. When my life touched Cookies and Cream, I was in heaven.
I threw a baby shower for a friend and sent her the Sugar Cat Studios link to pick the cupcakes her heart desired. She chose Blackberry Syrah, Pink Champagne and Mimosa Cheesecake. (She obviously missed alcohol.)
I started with the Blackberry Syrah. It was so delicious and had a beautifully adorned blackberry on top and a blackberry inside. The next part of my journey led me to the mimosa cheesecake. It was adorned with beautiful edible pearls. It had the consistency of cheesecake a graham cracker cake bottom. It was unexpected, sophisticated, and melted in my mouth. I had to wash the first two cupcakes down with Pink Champagne. I was it heaven.
Each cupcake Sugar Cart Studio produces is beautifully decorated and absolutely delicious. I ate three cupcakes at my friend’s baby shower, and three the next day. The cupcakes were the talk of the shower. Ali is so quick to respond to emails and very friendly, helpful and accommodating. You will not be disappointed.

I spent some time looking for a cupcakery in Santa Barbara for a wedding rehearsal dinner. We even made a trip out to SB to do some taste testing. On our trip out, we came up empty handed. I then found SugarCat here on Unilocal and decided to give her a try after reading her reviews and googling that, in fact, she had won Cupcake Wars. It was cool to find a «Celebrity» baker that had an opening and even cooler that this celebrity baker was very quick to respond to my e-​mails, essential for an online cupcakery. She was very accommodating.
She has some interesting flavors. We tried the Cake Batter Bark, Blueberry, Pink Champagne, and one that is not on the menu, Salted Caramel with a vanilla base. They were all very good. My favs were the Cake Batter Bark and Salted Caramel. The Blueberry was awesome and has the aura of «healthy» around it. (It has a fresh Blueberry atop a dollop of cream.)
She made cute litlte cupcake wrappers that tied in theme color of the wedding.
Yes, I would recommend SugarCat Studio.

I’ve had Ali’s cupcakes and I know for a fact they are a 5-​star experience all the way. She bakes them perfectly and has the most outstanding flavors that you literally could not find anywhere else in the world. Not only does she bake killer cupcakes but she designs the greatest cupcake wrappers as well!
Did I mention she won CUPCAKE WARS on the Food Network!!! I mean, really, there is no competition out there for this girl. Get her for your wedding! Get her for your party. Get her before it’s too late and she is only making cupcakes as private baker to Angelina and Brad.

I loved Alison! I asked her to make cupcakes for my wedding.
She was so wonderful and easy to work with and not to mention her cupcakes are DELICIOUS!
I chose her chocolate, vanilla, pink champagne and lemon cheesecake cupcakes for my wedding. I received many compliments on the taste and appearance of them.
She was easy to get a hold of and very accommodating. I’d refer her to anyone.