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About Heather Longpre

Chef Heather Longpré is a graduate of the French Pastry School of Kennedy-King College in Chicago, Ill. She studied sugar art with Nicholas Lodge, Mike McCarey, Scott Green, Sebastien Canonne M.O.F., Jacquy Pfeiffer, among other very accomplished Chef-Artists. She is also a Professional Chocolatier having graduated from Ecole Chocolat in Vancouver, Canada. Heather loves to use her skills as a sugar artist to create fun and fantastic cakes and edible art that showcase chocolate, gumpaste, pastillage, fondant, poured, pulled and blown sugar sculpture. In addition to being a chef, Heather teaches baking, chocolate making, sugar art and cake decorating classes.

certified-chocolatier

Party Favors For Every Occasion

 

We make custom party favors for every occasion. We’ll even match your color theme! Here are a few of our confections:

 

Chocolates and Truffles for your sweet table or dessert buffet.

We make truffles and chocolates and package them individually as favors or in small, medium and large boxes for every occasion.

Chocolates and Truffles for your sweet table.

Lemon-Blueberry-Basil chocolates are among our many flavors.

Eiffel Tower shaped chocolates on a stick.

The Eiffel Tower in chocolate (on a stick).

Petit Fours come in many different styles and flavors.

French Petit Fours.

Colorful party favors with cookies rolled in crepe paper.

Cookies rolled in crepe paper are very festive. Ask us about the dozens of types and flavors we bake … from soft to chewy to crispy.

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Everyone loves cake pops.

Christmas cookie art.

We shape and decorate cookies and treats for every season.

French macaroon / macaron cookie flowers.

We decorate French macaron cookies to look like flowers.

Music-themed cake and sugar sculpture wows crowd.

This cake was created for a very talented person in the music industry. Her amazing story is a very long one and so we decided to communicate all the fine details on edible sheet music that you see falling from a replica of her favorite music stand.

All of the instruments are chocolate replicas of her very own favorites.

As she is a child of the 60s, we chose Gerber daisies to adorn the sculpture. The flowers are sugar. The floating musical notes are also sugar.

This cake tells a long musical life story. The sheet music is edible as are all the instruments and flowers. Even the music stand is sugar!

This cake tells a long musical life story. The sheet music is edible as are all the instruments and flowers. Even the music stand is sugar!

Edible guitar in chocolate and sugar.

Your favorite guitar rendered in chocolate.

Edible mini versions of instruments.

Chocolate copies of your instruments make great cake toppers!

Edible sugar and chocolate art guitars and other instruments.

Edible instruments make terrific decorations on a sweet table.

Piano keyboard cake and sugar art.

Edible art components of a cake and sugar art sculpture.

Chef Heather Just Became A Certified Chocolatier

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certified-chocolatier

 

In the news: Chef Heather has just become a Certified Professional Chocolatier. She is now offering chocolates in addition to her fine flavor cakes and sugar art. What a combination!!!!!

Complete your wedding, birthday party or other special event with a try of chocolates and truffles. Or, crown your celebration cake with an assortment of chocolates and bonbons.

Flavors include classic chocolate truffle in your choice of dark, milk or Tahitian Vanilla, blueberry-lemon, walnut fudge, raspberry, strawberry truffle, orange creamsickle …. just to name a few. Ask Chef Heather to make your favorite flavor. All artisan chocolates and truffles are made fresh especially for your order.

Place your Christmas and New Years’ orders now! And remember … it is never too early to place your order for Valentine’s Day ;-)

We recreate children's favorite toys in sugar mediums and place them on top of their birthday cakes and sweet tables. All of the art and action figures are deliciously edible.

Children’s Toys Transformed Into Edible Cake Toppers

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We use your children’s toys as inspiration to create unique birthday cakes. All of the art is edible or you may remove it from the cake and keep it (sugar preserves the art !!)

Your child's favorite action figure as an edible cake topper.

Your favorite action figure in edible sugar art.

Edible children's art is recreated from their favorite toys to become cake toppers, party favors and sweet table decorations.

Children’s toys are transformed into edible accents on and around their birthday cakes.

We work with many sugar mediums to create unique cake toppers and edible sugar art pieces.

This Isomalt floor is edible and looks just like glass.

 

 

Chocolates and Truffles for your sweet table.

Chocolates & Truffles

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Individually wrapped chocolates and truffles make the perfect wedding favor for your guests. Flavors include Pink Champagne, Blueberry-Lemon-Basil, Fleur de Sel Caramel, Buttercrunch, Chocolate Fudge, Chocolate Walnut Fudge, Dark Creamy Truffle, Milk Truffle with Cashew, Cashew with Passion Fruit, White Chocolate Truffle, just to name a few.

Chocolates and Truffles for your sweet table or dessert buffet.

Cashew-Passion Fruit Chocolates.

1984 themed birthday cake and chocolate edible art.

Party like it’s 1984

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Movie, TV and Wrestling characters come to life in cake and chocolate. (The cake is hiding inside the computer!)

Let us help you with your party theme. All of our cakes, sugar and chocolate art is customized to suite your occasion.

1984 wrestling characters along with famous movie characters replicaed in chocolate.

Wrestling and movie characters come to life in chocolate.

Movie and TV characters from 1984 replicated in chocolate.

Your favorite movie characters in chocolate.

TV and movie characters made out of chocolate for cake-toppers and sweet table center pieces.

Your favorite movie characters in chocolate.

 

 

Edible computer with edible images on the monitor.

For the computer geek in your life

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This chocolate laptop is full size and may either sit on the top of a cake, beside a cake or may serve as a centerpiece for a dessert buffet or sweet table. The images on the screen are sugar and entirely edible. The picture on the screen may be your corporate logo (as shown) or may be a photograph of a person or any image you wish.

All of our art is one-of-a-kind and customized to fit the theme of your event. From two-person dinner parties to weddings let us create something special for you.

French Impressionism cake topper.

French Impressionism Meets Music

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We combined alternating layers of French chocolate biscuit (pronounced: bis kwee), with Tahitian vanilla biscuit and layered those with strawberry cream. The cake is finished with Tahitian vanilla cream cheese frosting. The musical notes are chocolate, the lilies and lily pads are gum paste (sugar) and the cake board and cake topper are fondant, in other words: everything is edible! This cake is available in the flavor combination of your choice.

French Impressionism sugar art with chocolate musical notes.

Art and music expressed in cake, chocolate and sugar art.

Edible Eiffel Tower made from sugar adorned with gumpaste flowers.

Springtime in Paris .. or close to it

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Want to celebrate springtime in Paris but can’t quite make the trip at this point? Have a Springtime In Paris party! This edible (sugar) Tour de Eiffel (Eiffel Tower) can either be used as a cake topper (12 inches tall) or may stand in the center of your dessert table (24 – 36 inches tall) surrounded by delicious French treats, such as Macaron. Let us help you with the sweet side of your celebration.

Sugar art to complement every theme, including theater arts, entertainment and music.

Cake imitating art …

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Does life imitate art? Well this sugar art certainly imitates our grad’s life! As a graduate of a theater arts program we decided to make him the comedy and tragedy masks so familiar to actors.

A graduation cake for a theater arts student complete with the comedy and tragedy masks.

Customized graduation cakes to fit every program and special interest.

And this grad is especially interested in music:

Bass drum and snare drum cakes with edible gumpaste saxophone player sitting upon a cake with gumpaste graduation cap and rice paper diploma.

Fondant-covered cake boards to match the edible sugarpaste saxophone player.

Some of our graduates simply want something pretty:

Edible art on a graduation cake.

Gumpaste graduation cap, rice paper diploma and fondant skirt.

Let us know how we can make your graduation cake and art special.

 

 

The bald eagle sits atop a tree stump that is filled with red, white and blue cake. All of the elements are edible.

A Memorable Memorial Day

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This four tier tree stump cake feeds 40 people. We make it in your choice of flavor however, this one has layers of strawberry (red), Tahitian vanilla (white) and blueberry (blue) cake and is filled with strawberry cream cheese. It was wrapped in cooked Italian meringue vanilla buttercream frosting and then decorated with vanilla fondant.

The bald eagle is fondant and the nest is made from coconut.