Custom Decorated Sugar Cookies in San Rafael

This is where the technique lives.

Watercolor Florals are hand-painted directly onto the icing — botanicals, blossoms and foliage, with the softness that only comes from a brush.

Piping Details run from a clean border to dense, precise linework. Royal icing holds lace-fine detail and dimension, which is what makes the difference visible at arm's length.

Personalization covers monograms, names, initials and dates, painted or piped. This is usually what turns a cookie into something a guest keeps.

Theme-Based Designs are built around your occasion — a wedding pattern that echoes the invitation, a seasonal set, a company mark, one very specific dinosaur.

Metallic Accents in edible gold leaf, silver dust or pearl finish, used where they will catch light rather than everywhere.

Mixed Technique puts piping, painting and specialty work on a single cookie, for the pieces meant to be looked at before they are eaten.

Every cookie is decorated individually. We hold the set together so two dozen wedding cookies read as one family, but the small variations between them are the tell that a person made each one.

We keep the flavor classic and put the work into the design. Every decorated sugar cookie uses our signature almond sugar cookie recipe — soft bite, not too sweet, and firm enough to hold an edge. Cakes and cupcakes have their own flavor and filling menu.

There is a gluten-free version of the same cookie, made to hold its shape and take decoration the same way.

The design side is where the choices are: theme, colors, shapes, level of detail.

Wedding Cookies as favors, shower treats or part of the dessert table, designed to sit alongside the rest of the day rather than compete with it.

Party Favors for birthdays, retirements, baby and bridal showers, personalized with a name or a date.

Corporate Gifts with a company mark or a personalized message, packaged to be handed out or couriered.

Holiday Gifting for client gifts, staff thank-yous or the box you bring to someone else's house.

Baby and Bridal Showers, where the cookies double as part of the table decoration.

Milestone Celebrations — an anniversary, a graduation, a promotion thirty years in the making.

Gift Boxes of assorted designs, when you want to send something rather than serve it.

Custom sugar cookies need a minimum of two weeks. Every cookie is hand-piped and individually sealed, which is the part that takes the time. If your date is sooner than that, get in touch anyway — we sometimes have room.

Custom cookie orders start at one dozen. Marin Cake Studio handles everything from a single dozen up to large event quantities of 200 or more, and the price follows the quantity and the amount of hand work in the design.

Yes. Marin Cake Studio designs cookies around a specific theme for weddings, holidays, corporate events and celebrations. Bring the theme, the colors or an image you like, and the design is built from that.