Inspired by her grandmother’s holiday baking lessons, Cranberry Township native Andrea Lutz runs Flour & Sugar Cakery in Seven Fields, making custom cakes and small-batch treats from scratch. The cakery is especially known for buttercream design and uses ingredients such as Madagascar vanilla, Belgian chocolate and European-style butter, with old-fashioned baked goods made without preservatives.
The Couture CakeryJasmine Clouser, a UCLA-trained designer, founded The Couture Cakery from a lifelong interest in art and baking and now runs the boutique studio in her Orange County hometown. After building a successful bakery business in Central Pennsylvania for a decade, she returned to California and became known for meticulous, custom work shaped by advanced sugar-flower training with Ron Ben Israel. The Couture Cakery creates made-to-order cakes and cupcakes for weddings and special events, using Swiss meringue buttercreams made without artificial ingredients, powdered sugar, or shortening.LEMOYNE, PA
The Lucky Cupcake CompanySince opening in Peddler’s Village in spring 2010, The Lucky Cupcake Company has baked from-scratch cupcakes, cakes and other desserts with real butter and no preservatives. The small custom bake shop is especially known for filled cupcakes and made-to-order celebration and wedding confections, while its companion Sweet Occasions space hosts baking classes and private events.LAHASKA, PA
Crumbcoat ConfectionsCrumbcoat Confections creates scratch-made custom cakes and teaches home bakers how to make beautiful desserts, with buttercream flowers at the heart of its work. Founded by self-taught baker Holley Brashear, the business draws on her more than 25 years of hands-on experience in grocery-store bakeries, bakeries, a storefront and home kitchens. Brashear was a 2022 Cake Masters Awards finalist in the Buttercream category, and her approach has also been featured in Pastry Arts Magazine and American Cake Decorating.HARRISBURG, PA
Sweet Tooth CottageBorn in owner Sue Bissonnette’s home kitchen, Sweet Tooth Cottage is a family-owned Powell bakery known for its signature butter cookies, cut and decorated by hand. The bakery expanded into its current location when demand for those cookies outgrew the kitchen, and it now makes custom designs alongside cakes and other scratch-baked treats. Every item is prepared by hand with fresh, quality ingredients and buttercream frosting.POWELL, OH