Always friendly and helpful staff!! Fabulous bakery items!…read moreAnd COFFEE always HOT and Fresh!! And just waiting for me on Sunday morning after Church!!

Nice bakery. Just a tad too far from my house in Shrewsbury PA. This place has an old school feel…read more Fresh baked, the little white boxes. Yes!

I was visiting Gettysburg and had a craving for something sweet. So of course......Sweeter than…read moreSAP! I had never visited this charming little shop but was happy to try out a few of the sweets on display! I couldn't resist the Cinnamon Roll and it was the BEST I have ever had...anywhere! I also tried a little strawberry delight with ripe strawberries and cream and it was also delicious! Everything looked so good and I wish I had purchased a few more items to take home! Delighted to have found this wonderful little bakery! If you are anywhere near Gettysburg be sure to stop by and enjoy some of the many items they offer! Just an Update: Sweeter than SAP has moved to a new location! New Location is larger with lots of parking! 756 York Road, Gettysburg, PA

This was first actual visit inside of Sweeter Than Sap, although I'd partaken of some of their…read moregoodies prior to today. 'Twas a rainy Saturday in mid-May when, after shopping, some sweet treats seemed to be in order. The store is small and an approximately equal-sized kitchen is on the other side. The glass case had a nice assortment of delectable goodies. As expected, inside smelled delicious and the interior was inviting. I didnt catch the name of the nice lady behind the counter, although she was most pleasant, affable, and helpful. She did comment that although not the owner, she enjoys working in such a tasty environment. I decided on a piece of strawberry cheesecake, and one each of peanut butter, sugar and oatmeal cookie. I'll definitely come back. Please check ot out!

Super friendly family run operation with absolutely delicious assortment of cakes and pastries…read more The frosted brownies are one of my favorites!

My son's wife started a family tradition of a custom cake many years ago. Each cake was our…read more'favorite'. For my birthday this year, son and his family ordered cake based on my love of coffee. Thank you for creating such a beautiful and extraordinarily delicious custom cake based on my favorite dessert, tiramisu, and my love of coffee You captured everything perfectly. It was not only stunning to look at but every bite was absolutely amazing. Your talent, creativity, and attention to detail made my celebration even more special. Thank you for sharing your gift and making such a memorable cake! The gesture made this year even more meaningful.

I love coming here to pick out delicious pastries and cookies. They are beautifully presented and…read moretaste delicious. I like that they offer herbal teas and and a small coffee selection. The shop is very quaint and situated in the center of town.

I've been a longtime customer of Jacquelyn's Bakery and have always believed in supporting local…read morebusinesses. Even when something wasn't to my taste, I'd come back and try something else--because that's what supporting small businesses looks like. I want local shops to thrive, not get swallowed up by big-box stores. That said, I was genuinely disappointed after seeing Jacquelyn's recent Facebook post. Everyone is entitled to personal opinions, but using a business platform to label people as "dangerous" and "unsafe" simply for having different views isn't community-building--it's divisive, and it's bad for business. Profiling customers and publicly signaling who is "acceptable" to walk through your door is not how you grow or sustain a welcoming business. As a result, I won't be spending my money here anymore, and I won't be recommending it to others. If the energy spent dividing the community were redirected into improving product quality--like making cakes that are actually moist and buttercream that doesn't resemble Play-Doh--it might do more good for the business than turning customers away. Supporting local businesses should feel inclusive, not conditional.

I'd known of Jacquelyn's for several years, yet had never gone in as we live about 14 miles away…read more We had our 2 yound granddaughters and decided to procure ffor them (and us!) a little treat. Goodies abound,cand there is a variety of caffeinated beverages as well as a number of tables. One in front seats 2 and is in a little nook, but was occupied. There are also tables in the rear of the store. Jacquelyn was working alone and was most affable and accommodating. We bought a bunch of things, including for later that day and the next. I'd highly recommend this for anyone with a sweet tooth, any coffee lover, and anyone fancying some gustatory delight!

Stopped in for some croissants and they surely delivered! I had to try a sweet and savory for the…read moreultimate experience. I did a berries (strawberry) and cream and a ham and cheese which i microwaved at home. Both very tasty! I also got a lemon square which i did enjoy but i like my squares a little more tart. If you like more sweet you will love it! Bakery itself is small but cute with lots of options! Cakes look beautiful. The girl working was super sweet and even let me have some whole milk from the back for my coffee i purchased. You must try some of these sweets if you're in Cockeysville.

I ordered the spinach feta croissant, the lemon danish, a pistachio macaroon, and a cake pop. I…read morehave to say that, especially for a small business, I found the range of variety impressive. However, I can't say the same for the taste. The macaroon was too sweet; same can be said for the danish; the feta x spinach croissant was bready, and didn't rise properly either. The cake pop was okay.

Artistic Desserts specializes in wedding cakes, but from what I saw, Mike does cakes for all…read moreoccasions and other desserts and unique chocolate sculptures as well. We met with Pastry Chef Michael Markwitz at his (very nice) home to go over our wedding cake selections. We were served full-sized slices of his incredibly delicious moist cakes in his dining room, on Lenox china with a freshly brewed pot of coffee. HUGE slices of delicious cake - so you can taste each one several times as you're narrowing down what you want. He combines whatever filling you want with whatever kind of cake you want, so again - big slices of fresh delicious cake really help when you're mixing stuff up to make an educated decision. He helped us select the number of tiers we wanted and even suggested keeping the cake shorter and offered to make a couple of cakes on the side to save money. Not sheet cakes, the same awesome round cakes with fabulous fillings. The cake is cut and served in the back anyway, so no one would notice either way and the quality of the cake is identical. Since we're having a backyard wedding, he even gave us tons of detail on how to cut and serve the cake and drew me a little diagram as well (there is an art to cutting a huge wedding cake without butchering it and I'm grateful he took the time to explain.) We have three tiers and he doesn't charge any extra if we wanted to do all three tiers with different cake flavors and fillings. The Cakes: Red Velvet with cream cheese frosting - the cake and icing were dense and delicious without the cloying sugary sweetness or unsweetened butter greasiness of a lot of other bakeries' cakes and icings. Some kind of white italian cream cake with a layer of Swiss imported seedless raspberry marmalade and a second layer of custard creamy goodness. Dense and delicious lemon cake with raspberry cream - we went with this one. Again, not too sweet, not TOO dense - just right. The chocolate - holy goodness. There was some kind of incredible ganache filling in there that was to die for. He made another cake with crushed peanut butter cups in the filling - this was my fiance's fave and it was delicious as well. Believe it or not, I am not a huge fan of cake overall, but you can't NOT love this guy's cakes. They are fabulous and they are beautifully decorated. He spent well over an hour with us at 7:00pm on a weeknight to accommodate our work schedules. He scrolled through endless pictures of cakes he had decorated so we could see some examples and he made some great recommendations. He let us try samples of fondant even though the cake we were selecting was iced with buttercream. It was light and soft and tasted almost like marshmallow. Not at all what I expected fondant to taste like, but he makes his own and it is delicious. When I went off on a holy-crap-i-never-even-thought-of-that-what-an-awesome-looking-cake tangent, he brought me back to my original vision for a simple, plain, classic wedding cake, even though the other option that caught my fancy would have cost a significant amount of money and truly would have been an impulse-buy. The man is a professional. Damn it I love independent businesses who haven't gotten so big and self-important that they forget about their customers. What a drastic difference between a tasting in the home of someone who loves what they do, and an impersonal tasting at a busy bakery that barely gives a crap about you and expects a healthy deposit in advance before they do you the huge favor of serving you silver-dollar sized stale morsels of inferior cake. He takes consultations by appointment only, so you'll want to plan in advance if you need a cake. His site has a lot of great pictures as well. I highly, highly recommend Michael and his wonderful cakes. We drove an hour to get to our tasting and it was so worth it. He is very friendly, very knowledgeable and very interested in making sure you get exactly what you want for a fair price. It was a great experience and a fabulous reminder of why I love shopping small, independent operations most of all.

Michael was awesome to work with. The tasting at his house in Westminster was great. He served us…read moreon his china and offered us tea and coffee. He gave us lots of different options to choose from as far as flavors and decorations. He also suggested that we have one of our flavors on a sheet cake that guests never see to save money, which we did. I've been to a lot of weddings where cake slices are left abandoned on the table, there is lots of cake leftover, etc. Our wedding was NOT like that at all. Everyone was talking about the cake and there was hardly any left! We had Italian Creme Cake w/Chocolate Ganache & Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Red Velvet w/Bourbon Cream Cheese Frosting, and Italian Creme Cake with Vanilla Pudding & Swiss Raspberry. All were amazing, but if I had to choose my favorite it would be the Reese's peanut butter cake! The cake looked and tasted wonderful! Seriously, this was one of those wedding vendors that just blew me away. I expected the cake to look and taste good, but it was AMAZING!

Simon's has been part of my life since they had a location at Loch Raven and Cold Spring in NE…read moreBaltimore when I was young. Before it was Simon's the Otterbein's name was over the storefront. They moved to Cranbrook a long time ago and at least two generations of Simon's were keeping up shop. Legend has it that Mr Simon pretty much lived in the place!! Well, the Simon family sold the business about a year ago to a Latino family. They are great folks and quick to offer a happy greeting upon entering the shop. Their famed sugar cookies dominate the display cases behind the counter. My mission this morning was to acquire two parcels of a deeply personal culinary weakness: DONUTS! Made from scratch donuts. Far better than Krispy and gas station or c-store donuts. At 1.50 each, you can't beat it as far as flavor and quality go. My second visit in about a month. I'll try to make it more frequently, but, you know, donuts... It's easy to stumble...

I have been a Simons Bakery customer since they were on HanoverStreet in Baltimore City! My parents…read moreused to get the most delicious peach cake and buns and turnovers when I was a child. And I followed them to both locations in Baltimore County because their baked goods remained the same! Until now. I bought a peach cake at their Cockeysville location yesterday and although the peaches were the same sweet and delicious, the cake part wasn't the same. I was disappointed. I know it is no longer a family run bakery anymore but I thought they got the recipes from the Simon family. I hope they do if they haven't because I won't be going back. The cake part of the peach cake just needs a little something to make it taste like Simon's!!

Our 3-tier wedding cake was absolutely fantastic, and so was our overall experience with Karen. She…read morehas an adorable cake shop built out of her house where you can see tons of decor examples to choose from when you go for your tasting... she really can do anything and is a true artist! On our wedding day, the cake was delivered promptly on time to the venue and in perfect condition. And not only was the cake beautiful, but it was absolutely delicious! We went with almond chambord, and everyone loved it... my family was fighting over the leftovers. My mom claims the cake was the best part of my entire wedding, and wouldn't stop talking about it for weeks after (not exaggerating). MULTIPLE of my guests independently told me it was the best wedding cake they've ever had. My husband and I both agree, unbiasedly! It was so moist and flavorful. The leftovers tasted just as good days later. We're counting down the days to eat the top tier for our anniversary! I highly recommend Karen for any type of cake! Thank you Karen!

the best of the best. karen is a master. if you want the best there is-go see karen. prices are…read morevery fair, the cakes are exceptional.