Hello and Welcome!
Welcome to SugarHero – your sweet destination for fun dessert recipes, kitchen tips, and baking and decorating tutorials.
I’m Elizabeth LaBau, and I started SugarHero in 2011 as a way to share my favorite recipes with friends and family. And I still do exactly that – except my recipes are now shared with millions of readers across the globe!
Read on to learn more about me and the site, and connect with me on social media here:
Real Recipes Made by Real People
In a digital world increasingly crowded with AI content, it can be difficult to know who and what you can trust online.
Search results and social media sites are full of AI-generated recipes and gorgeous photos that look too good to be true…because they are. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to take a chance on a recipe that was fabricated by a computer. Maybe you’ve seen the news story about the AI recipe that said to add glue to pizza to make the cheese gooier? Yeah…horrifying.
Here at SugarHero, all of our recipes are created by a real person – me! 🙋🏻♀️ I test all the recipes that I publish multiple times, to make sure they’re good enough to share. And because you often have questions about substitutions, pan size, and ingredients, I also test variations on the recipes whenever I can.
Trying a new recipe costs you time and money, and I take that responsibility seriously. You can count on SugarHero for:
- reliable, well-tested recipes you can trust
- detailed photo tutorials
- helpful videos
- kitchen and baking tips
Whether you’re a seasoned baker or someone turning on the oven for the first time, our recipes and resources will help you become a more confident and creative baker—in short, a sugar hero!
Meet Elizabeth
Hello, fellow dessert lovers! I’m Elizabeth LaBau, and I’m the founder, baker, photographer, taste-tester, and Chief Sugar Officer here at SugarHero.
When it comes to baking, I’ve had my fingers in a lot of pies…which is kind of a gross expression in this particular context. I got my start by attending culinary school, focusing on patisserie, and worked as a pastry chef at a variety of Los Angeles restaurants and bakeries.
These days, I live in beautiful Northern California with my husband and two sons. When I’m not in the kitchen, you can find me reading books, practicing watercolor painting, hiking the gorgeous trails around my house, and trying to teach myself guitar.
A Candy-Coated Career
In addition to my pastry work in commercial kitchens, I have almost two decades of professional experience working in the candy and confectionary space.
In 2006 I started writing for About.com, building their candy site from scratch and developing hundreds, probably thousands, of candy recipes over more than a decade working there. That’s a lot of chocolate and sugar!
I’ve written a cookbook called The Sweet Book of Candy Making, which has been published in multiple languages and spawned a mini gift-sized version. I’m also a two-time Craftsy instructor, and have created and hosted classes about making homemade candy and basic cake decorating.
My Current Favorites
It’s impossible for me to truly have ONE favorite dessert recipe, but here are a few of my current favorites. The lemon bread is on repeat at my house!
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