A gourmet cookie bakery that began as one woman's home-kitchen side project now has its first storefront, and it's tucked into The Mall at Wellington Green. Silk & Sugga opened June 1 on the mall's first floor near JCPenney, wedged between Sunglass Hut and Scoops & Beyond, offering hand-baked, thick, filled cookies for $7.50 apiece.
The shop marks the brand's very first physical location, according to citybiz. Co-founder Charrisse Clark-Smith is a Detroit native who moved to Palm Beach County in 2012 and spent years working as a nurse for a national organization, a job that had her traveling to other states to help open new facilities. Baking, she has said, became her “me” time and a creative outlet during that period — eventually growing from a personal hobby into a full-fledged business she now co-owns with Sherwood Clark Sr.
Even the bakery's name traces back to that same reflective process. Clark-Smith has said the name Silk & Sugga came from brainstorming about how she wanted the cookies to make people feel, landing on something that evokes smoothness and sweetness in equal measure.
What's On the Menu
Silk & Sugga hand-bakes each treat in-house, with top sellers including banana pudding, s'mores, and cookies & cream flavors. The shop also rotates in seasonal options like peach cobbler and caramel apple pie, giving regulars a reason to keep coming back throughout the year.
At $7.50 per cookie, Silk & Sugga's pricing sits comfortably within — and even above — the national range for specialty gourmet cookie brands, which typically command $4 to $5 or more per cookie thanks to experiential branding and premium ingredient profiles, according to Virtue Market Research.
A Mall in Transition
The Mall at Wellington Green spans 1.2 million square feet across two levels and houses more than 160 retailers, restaurants, and entertainment concepts, including Macy's, Dillard's, Apple, CMX Wellington, Arcade Time, and Kids Empire, per the same citybiz report. It's managed by Spinoso Real Estate Group, which has operated since 2009 and oversees a portfolio of hundreds of enclosed shopping malls, lifestyle centers, and large-scale retail projects nationwide.
That management group has been actively reshaping the property. Spinoso announced in July that it would bring a 13,000-square-foot Arcade Time entertainment venue to the mall, part of a broader push to diversify beyond traditional retail. The mall itself has seen dramatic shifts in value since it first opened on October 5, 2001, as a 1.3-million-square-foot shopping venue developed by Taubman Centers — Starwood Capital Group bought it for $341 million in 2014, but the property appraiser would most likely hold its value at $72 million, though specific values for the coming year had not yet been released, according to the Palms West Journal.
Those anchor losses have opened the door to bigger changes still to come. A 2026 redevelopment proposal filed by Bainbridge proposes converting the former 100,000-square-foot Nordstrom site and its surrounding parking into roughly 620 residential apartments, a plan Hoodline detailed in April. Adding that kind of residential density next door could eventually mean a built-in customer base for storefronts like Silk & Sugga.
A Wellington Market
Wellington is the local setting for Silk & Sugga's premium dessert concept.
For now, shoppers can find Silk & Sugga during the mall's regular hours — Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. — at the mall's address of 10300 W. Forest Hill Blvd. in Wellington.
