Fourteen-year-old Amino Ichigo is a would-be pâtissière who acquired her love of sweets from her late grandmother’s desserts. After meeting the talented Henri Lucas at a local sweets festa, Amino convinces her parents to let her attend the culinary Marie Academy so that she can fulfill her dream. However, as she’s only armed with a positive attitude and no real cooking skills, Amino quickly finds herself at the bottom of the class. Luckily, she soon meets Vanilla, a sweets spirit who’s here to help Amino reach her full potential. Alongside good friends such as Rumi and the three gorgeous Princes of Sweets, Amino will bake, mix and sift her way to the top!
Hinamori Amu is a stylish punk rock girl who is liked and feared by her peers, but there's just one problem: she's actually a shy and quiet girl who can't seem to drop her self-fabricated facade! But when Amu finds three eggs in her bed, she had no idea her life would change forever. Out of the eggs pop Ran, Miki and Su, Amu's Guardian Charas; these being represent parts of Amu that she wishes she could be, even allowing Amu to transform into those parts at will! Now, with pressure from the other Guardians (including her crush, Hotori) to join their midst, dark sides of the psyche known as X Eggs to seal, and nefarious forces after a wish-granting egg known as the embryo, Amu's life has officially become more complicated!
The most obvious relationship between the two are the presence of tiny littly chibis. Their roles are little differrent though. In Shugo Chara the chibis are their person's would-be-self. In Yumeiro Patissiere the chibis are spirits who help out their person in cooking. Nevertheless, if you like one, you'll for sure like the other.
Though the Shugo Chara series has more action, mentions romance often, and has a lot more outfit changes than you can count; and Yumeiro Patissiere focuses on food and combining different cultures, the two are quite similar. You've got the essence of magical fairy like creatures that assist their 'assigned humans' (if you will) in fulfilling their dreams. You've got the wide range of personalities and the humour to match. So in my opinion these two anime are similar yet different.
If you've seen Shugo Chara, Yumeiro Patissiere would be a slightly toned down, minus the huge essence of romance (but you can catch some hints of it at points) and maybe not SO exciting anime - but it has its good points and the animations are quite similar. But you'll love the humourous moments in this French food based anime.
If you're watching Yumeiro Patissiere, I recommend Shugo Chara as it has the same concept of chibi humourous characters that we all love. Shugo Chara is focused more on action and magical, cheesy 'I can guess what happens next' good vs evil, but its quite similar to Shugo Chara.
Saga is an ordinary girl who lives her life by planning everything ahead of time. Unfortunately, having a waffle-loving Snow fairy called Sugar follow her home was not a part of these plans! Together with apprentice fairies Salt and Pepper, Sugar must find the 'twinkles' that will make their magical flowers blossom, thus turning them into fully fledged season fairies. The trouble is, none of them actually knows what a 'twinkle' is! And so, with help from Saga and other friends, the trio begin their search, whilst having fun and perfecting their magic along the way.
A Little Snow Fairy and Yumeiro Patissiere are linked by the fairies and spirits. These little chibis help their person in order to reach their goal. Both animes are cute, fun, and equally enjoyable so go watch the other!