Bella Dolce is a Santa Barbara catering company specializing in beautiful cookies, petite sweets, luscious cupcakes and exquisite wedding cakes.
Bella Dolce was established in 1997 by Pastry Chef Eileen Randall Cook.
Because our catering kitchen does not have a retail store each of our creations are made to order for each client. All of our cakes and desserts are handmade from scratch, using only the best ingredients we can find and are never frozen.
Please call or e-mail us for more information on any of our “beautiful and sweet” creations.

EILEEN RANDALL COOK
Pastry Chef Eileen Randall Cook was raised in Santa Barbara and realized at an early age that if someone would pay you money to make cookies when you grew up, that was the thing to do.
Eileen left Santa Barbara for the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco and a pastry internship at Campton Place Hotel. She graduated from the CCA Chef Program in 1989. She then moved to Los Angeles where she mastered breakfast pastry at the Hotel Bel Air, did food styling for print and film, catering for the stars, taught cooking classes and managed the cooking school at Montana Mercantile in Santa Monica.
Since returning to Santa Barbara in 1992 Eileen was the pastry chef at Brigitte’s (now Opal) and Executive Pastry Chef at the Wine Cask. There she was responsible for the design and production of desserts for the Wine Cask Restaurant and catering company, The University Club and Polo Club.
Before establishing Bella Dolce Eileen returned to school, completing the Women’s Economic Ventures business course and studying at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in Napa Valley.
She has been featured in the Santa Barbara News Press as “Chef of the Week” and the Santa Barbara Independent “Close Up”. Photos of her beautiful sweets have been featured in the Independent wedding issues from 1999-2005, Inside Weddings, Food and Home, Your Wedding Day, Wedding Celebrations and Santa Barbara magazines.

Eileen is a founding member and past president of the Women’s Culinary Arts Guild of the Central Coast, a founding board member of Women’s Economic Venture’s alumni association W!, and a current board member of WEV, as well as a member of Women Chefs and Restaurateurs.

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