D E S I G N E R D E S S E R T Susan Morgan of Elegant Cheese Cakes likes to chat with couples and then start sketching. "I'm very dimensional in my approach. I'll try to tell a story about the couple, and I love to have them bring in fabrics, photos, anything that's important to them. I'll even match the colors on paint chips." Her grandmother's sewing box inspired Susan Morgan of Elegant Cheese Cakes to top a cake layer with a lacy covering of fondant surrounded by marzipan buttons and dressmaker's tools of chocolate covered with edible 24k gold leaf. If your guests aren't impressed, tell them you'll eat your hat. These bonnet boxes from Elegant Cheese Cakes are composed of chocolate decadent, triple mocha, and white chocolate cake covered with pliable white chocolate. Ribbons and edible "pearls" are the faux finishing touch.

Elegant Cheese Cakes® has also been featured in Bay Area publications such as Gourmet, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, Palo Alto Weekly, and Focus; and in the Bay Area wedding guides By Recommendation Only and Here Comes the Guide.