If you didn't get enough sugar on Halloween — and who didn't? — we urge you to head over to the Sir Francis Drake this Thursday to check out the 6th Annual Sugar Rush, a strictly-dessert and wine fundraiser for local nonprofit Spark. In addition to an all-you-can-drink bubbles bar, you'll get to eat as many sweet treats from the following restaurants of note:

Arizmendi Bakery
Chez Panisse
Delfina
Farrallon
George's
Let's Be Frank
Oola (preparing ribs and rib sliders, in case you've had too many sweets)
Scala's Bistro

A few offerings you will find at Sugar Rush? Almond raspberry cake with Valrhona Opalys, sig raspberry pate au fruit, and Cognac Dudognon bittersweet chocolate truffle, just to name a few.

Above the sweets and sips and bow ties, though, you will take greater delight in knowing that you helped out Spark, a nonprofit that offers life-changing apprenticeships to youth in underserved and poor communities. A vital program that helps make a crucial difference in a kid's life.

Buy advance tickets online before they sell out.

Details:

6th Annual Sugar Rush Bay Area
Sir Francis Drake Hotel (450 Powell)
Thursday, November 7
7 pm - 11:00 pm

General Admission: $75/advance ($85 at the door)
VIP Admission: $125/advance ($135 at the door)
$1,000 Ticket Package: 10 VIP tickets (save $25/ticket).
Psst: Cocktail attire appreciated

Above, a new Blue Bottle dessert based on Garry Winogrand's photograph "Kerrville, Texas, 1977" can be found at SF MOMA. Also of note? This sweet treat inspired by Christian Marclay's The Clock. Behold:

Blue Bottle’s head pastry chef, Leah Rosenberg, who was recently the subject of a short video, made a name for herself with items that include Rothko Toast + Jams, Mondrian Cake, and Build your own Barnett Newman. Her digestible work can be found at the museum's rooftop terrace,

Both Garry Winogrand and Christian Marclay: The Clock are on display at SF MOMA until June 2 when the museum's Third Street location closes for expansion construction and the begin their “on the go” programming/exhibitions.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 151 3rd Street (at Howard), S.F.

If you're not on a worried parent Yahoo group, you're missing out. And how. Take, for example, this most recent exchange on the Glen Park Parents after one parent asked where he could purchase an Elmo Birthday cake. Patty, a fellow Glen Park mother, replied:

Cake Gallery...you can send them a picture of what you want and they will make it and deliver it. DON'T TAKE YOUR KIDS THERE - they are mostly known for their pornographic cakes and their shop is full of chocolate private parts. But they are also getting quite a good reputation for baptism cakes. Their cakes are delicious. I find the Safeway cakes too sugary.

Correct on all accounts, Patty! They do boast a bevy of NSFW cakes. (Again, NSFW!) They make baptism cakes. And, oh God, yes, Safeway cakes are far too sugary.

Later, another parent chimed in with the following tale about a recent visit to Cake Gallery:

I would echo Patty's advice -- definitely go to Cake Gallery, but leave your kids at home. Not knowing this I took my 3 kids including my then-5 year old with me, who had just gotten her first allowance that she was desperate to spend. She immediately ran for a giant red penis-shaped soap-on-a-rope and yelled out "I want to buy THIS!" Of course, she had no idea what it even was. I managed to steer them away from the x-rated confectionary, quickly told the owner I needed a First Communion cake, and ran out of there before they could discover the X-rated greeting cards and any other interesting items.

Thanks for taking it all in stride, San Francisco parents.

If you need a baptism cake with sexy results, please check out Cake Gallery at 90 - 9th Street (at Folsom), S.F., 415-861-2253.

Tight on cash and/or don't quite buy into Valentine's Day? Nevertheless, you're making a decent dinner tomorrow night and want to top it off with a special dessert? But this idea occurred to you at the last minute, and you don't want to buy/spend a whole lot of time or money on ingredients?

Crockpot Chocolate Fudge Pudding Cake by About.com's Linda Larsen sounds like just the decadent yet effortless recipe we're aiming for. Just plop all of the basic ingredients into the crockpot in the morning and torture yourself and your neighbors with the smell of cooking chocolate all day. We haven't tried it yet, but how can you go wrong? We're doing some crockpot baking first thing in the morning!

For those who are even lazier busier, you can just buy instant cake and pudding mixes and sour cream (yum, sour cream) instead.