Bone-Appi-Treat

Joan Riba, owner

Dogs and cake decorating - two of my favorite things. My love of cake decorating began when I was a child. I studied various foreign decorating techniques, and received my training from master decorator/instructor, Jeanne' Lutz, in San Francisco. She encouraged me to do competitive cake decorating, which resulted in several Best of Show awards for my work. I eventually began making decorated truffles.

I started baking special treats for my dogs several years ago. I decided to combine my love of dogs and decorating, and began Bone-Appi-Treat.

I use only high quality ingredients in all of my treats, cakes, and truffles. My treats have no added sugar, salt, coloring or preservatives, and I use only purified water in my recipes. I will be happy to create a recipe that will be appropriate for your dog’s special dietary needs.

I also offer hand-molded truffles and custom decorated cakes for people. You can see pictures of my custom cakes and hand-molded truffles at www.cocoacouturetruffles.com.

I have been creating custom ornaments for 20 years, and enjoy making dog ornaments that look like people’s dogs. You are welcome to send me a picture of your dog so that I can create an ornament that looks like him or her. If you prefer to have a custom dog figurine, I can create one without a hook, and make a bow or collar instead of a holly decoration.

I think every dog deserves to be spoiled – don’t you?

Newspaper and Magazine articles

Arizona Daily Star, February 2005

Tucson Weekly, September 2005

Tucson Lifestyle Magazine, "Our Doggies, Ourselves", September 2005