Since the early 2000s, Lancaster’s House of Clarendon has been creating custom cakes and desserts, with owner and cake designer Martine Cajas at the helm since 2005. The bakery is known for its award-winning wedding cakes, light mousse-topped cupcakes, and unusually thin fondant, using organic ingredients sourced from Lancaster County farms whenever possible. Head chef Mandy Bussell has been part of the kitchen team since 2016.
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
Flour & Sugar CakeryInspired 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.SEVEN FIELDS, PA
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
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