The beautiful and perfect sandwiched macaron with its delicately ruffled foot can often look too pretty to completely devour in two bites — a conundrum that only becomes more intense when savoring a macaron from Black Magic Sweets.
Aliyah Davis is the baker and owner of this pop-up bakery producing incredibly delicious macarons (that are exceptionally stunning since she hand paints each and every one). Davis grew up baking with her grandfather, which sparked her interest in making sweet treats. She's also always been drawn to painting and sketching. Combining these two passions, Davis created Black Magic Sweets in 2018 after graduating from the Seattle Culinary Academy.

Black Magic Sweets was honored to be featured in Cherry Bombe’s Issue 19 - Women Lead Popups.

Black Magic Sweets

Known for: Beautiful macarons
Delicate macarons, hand-painted with whimsy by bakery Aliya Davis. Flavor combinations change bimonthly and are available on the website to be shipped, or for pickup at Friday Afternoon Tea in Wallingford and at The Works Seattle in Yesler Terrace.

Last year, Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced the sudden and immediate shutdown of all restaurants and bars on March 16, with just a day’s notice, leaving restaurants and bars saddled with uneaten slabs of corned beef and full kegs of Guinness ahead of St. Patrick’s Day.

This year, while restaurants and bars can legally open with reduced capacity, they’ll have to wait another year to celebrate the holiday among packed crowds of green-clad partiers shouting “sláinte.”

But the creative cooks, bakers, and restaurateurs who have hustled their businesses through a year of shutdowns have come up with new ways to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, and most of it looks a whole lot tastier than green beer.

We first had the pleasure of being introduced to Aliyah Davis and Black Magic Sweets during the eTcTacoma x Kinsey Collection x TAM popup shop. During the Kinsey Collection exhibition the TAM cafe, operated by the amazing Chef Tony, Susan and Britney, decided to add black owned food vendors to the experience every third Thursday to help show support and to spotlight them as addition to celebrating American art by Black artists.

Author: Angela Poe Russell, KING 5 Evening (KING 5)

SEATTLE — Aliyah Davis' macarons are nothing short of stunning. The pastry chef, who admittedly embraces weird, hand paints each one. But the flavor is equally the star, as her philosophy centers around creating desserts so good, they can only be magic. "I started painting and drawing when I was little, then the parental, 'what's your career going to be?' so food, then I get to paint on it, mix them both," said Davis.