Trained at a four-year culinary school in Poland and seasoned by 15 years at a French bakery in Baltimore, pastry chef Janina Turziak has been baking European desserts and custom wedding cakes at her York bakery and café since 2010. Janina’s small family operation makes its cakes and daily bakery fare from scratch, with custom designs and signature recipes that keep their character over time. The café also brings her Polish and French pastry background to brunch and individual desserts.
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
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