Family-owned and operated in Centre Hall, Delectable Delights by Heather is the home-based baking business of Heather Luse, who has baked at Penn State since 1993 and now serves as its executive pastry chef. Drawing on culinary-school training and old-fashioned baking wisdom, Luse personally creates custom cakes for weddings, parties and other events, with family members pitching in as needed. The business is deliberately small and one-to-one, and it does not overbook.
Van Earl's CakesFamily-owned Van Earl’s Cakes is a Langhorne, Pennsylvania cake-art and dessert boutique creating scratch-made, custom cakes for weddings and special events across the Philadelphia-area tri-state region. Owner and Certified Executive Pastry Chef Van E. French Jr. brings more than 20 years of culinary experience, including training in Paris and service at the Ritz-Carlton Philadelphia, to designs that are made fresh for each celebration. The bakery’s work has appeared in local wedding publications and on Food Network’s “Cake Wars” and “Wedding Cake Championship.”LANGHORNE, PA
Jjsweettooth bakeryIn Chester, Jjsweettooth Bakery turns custom cake ideas into celebration desserts, with owner Mikeysha Crawford—known locally as “Cakebossofchester”—bringing a pastry education from the Art Institute of Philadelphia to each order. Crawford says she began baking about 10 years ago and builds cakes around the customer’s style, from special-event designs to familiar favorites such as 7Up pound cake and pineapple cake.CHESTER, PA
Lisa's Sweet Stop, LLCStarted as a cottage-food business in 2010, Lisa’s Sweet Stop is a family-owned bakery now operating a brick-and-mortar shop in its hometown, with Lisa Huck and Shanna Huck Clement at the helm. The Beverly bakery is known for gourmet cupcakes, fresh-made pies and specialty cakes, while its Cupcake Truck brings changing weekly flavors to communities around the Ohio Valley. Shanna, a self-taught cake artist, works with customers to turn celebration ideas into custom cakes.BEVERLY, OH