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5 Star Cake Co.

By LaVonne Trent | Lifestyle Editor

For the holidays our Haute team thought our readers might need help pulling off the perfect holiday dinner with amazing desserts, since most of our attention and time is usually spent shopping for the perfect gift to give loved ones and friends. So, we scouted out two Detroit area wow-worthy pastry bakeries to place your orders from that will allow you to still serve delectable homemade holiday sweets with all the trimmings. These bakeries will unequivocally have your guests bowing down saluting your culinary stardom for serving EPIC desserts! 

Starlett Simmons, owner & Pastry Chef of Five Star Cake Co, LLC. is our culinary super hero with her delicious gourmet cakes and pastries.  Chef Starlett admits to being a foodie and excessively in love with baking over the top pastry.   Of course, everything is made from scratch, no preservatives ever. She uses high quality ingredients from local vendors that also includes making and selling her own vanilla, and other flavored sweeteners all baked fresh daily by Chef Starlett. 

However, if you ask a few of her loyal customers what’s their favorite sweets from Five Star Cakes, you’re sure hear about the Carrot Cake, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Bourbon Caramel Pound Cake, and Strawberry Cupcakes, Apple Praline Pecan Pie and the White Layered Cake. 

We’re adding our picks to the list which includes the Pineapple Upside Down Cake with Caramel on top; those incredible savory smoked gouda & chives biscuits, the lemon glazed blueberry biscuits, and the Buttered Pecan Cookies are to die for too.  

Celebrate the most-merry time of year with Chef Starlett Simmons at Five Star Cake Company collection of delectable sweet and savory indulgences.

Starlett comes from a non-baking family and is an accountant by profession, but had a creative passion and a desire to bake for family and coworkers caused her to quit her job and attend Macomb County Culinary school to learn the chemistry of baking.  Armed with her young daughter, Kai, Chef Starlett opened her Roseville bakery in 2017.  Kai has been baking since she was 8 years and is currently in her first year of college at New York’s’ Culinary Institute of American seeking a degree in Pastry and Business.  Of course, she’s at the bakery assisting Chef Starlett now during her school’s Christmas break. 

Chef Starlett’s goal is to be the next Martha Stewart in the pastry world.  Our bet with her decadent five star desserts she is well on her way. Just ask Steve Harvey.  Chef Starlett won a chance to appear on Steve Harvey’s talk show and took her legendary German Chocolate Cake to share and experience her love for what she does well. 

Manal has infused her marketing management background into the bakery’s environment that has every branding detail covered.  She has creatively and beautifully curated a unique elegant Erskine Street shop that customers can evoke heighten sensory pleasures through the décor and food experience when visiting For The Love of Sugar. 

Manal, makes us proud to have such a creative visionary in our midst who has a passion for originality that blends her Lebanese Arabic influence with traditional and modern style baking indulgences.  

When visiting For The Love of Sugar, It is important to Manal that customers have available a wide range of excellent pastries and beverages options cooked, prepared with love and the highest quality ingredients. “House scratched, never using any preservatives” says Manal. Custom and gluten-free/ vegan options are available too.

Manal is constantly creating new flavors to infuse into her desserts and pastries.  How cute is her take on the Fruity Pebbles Cake that’s cleverly a result of her love for the Fruity Pebbles cereal.  In a sugar craving, Manal has created the Cheesecake Sandwich Cookie that’s becoming a decadent rage.  

Her signature menu creations include the Knafeh Cake which is based on a staple Mediterranean dessert. Flavored yellow cake filled with a sweet ricotta buttercream, shredded phyllo dough and crushed pistachios. The Matilda Cake is a Chocolate cake filled with a rich black chocolate buttercream that will send chocolate lovers into overdrive.

The Triple Berry Vanilla Bean Cake is a White Vanilla Bean Cake filled with a Bavarian cream and an amazing tart triple berry jam.  Manal’s out of this world French Macarons comes in every color of the rainbow and flavors to match. No, you can’t eat just one. So, be careful, those little cookies can become a craved obsession for sure.   

On the 2020 summer horizon, be on the lookout For The Love of Sugar Food Truck that will feature cookies, cinnamon rolls, frozen custards and sandwich dessert goodies all coming to you. 

For The Love of Sugar will surely impress even your most-demanding guests all season long.

Call Manal today!

For The Love of Sugar

100 Erskine Street Detroit, MI  48201

313-788-7111

Hours: Monday-Thursday: 9am-9pm Friday/Saturday: 9am-12am

Sun: 9am-6pm

www.fortheloveofsugar.com

MRS MASON’S CO.

By Robere Lett | Publisher | Style Editor

Brittle’s are an age-old tradition that has delighted confection lovers for centuries. A mix of sugar and water heated to 300 degrees, ingredients such as corn syrup, salt , leavening agents, peanut butter and various nuts are added and the hot mixture that then poured to a flat surface to cool and thicken, once completed it is then broken up into various sized pieces to create the Brittle.

Mrs. Mason’s Co. specializes in creating the most amazing brittle around. Her Luscious Temptations Premium Brittles have been a holiday tradition for over 25 years. Mrs. Mason began her confection journey in 1994 creating specialty brittles for friends and family and eventually turning her passion into a sustainable business. Her quaint shop in the heart of Royal Oak is the go place for brittle lovers. Mrs. Mason uses pure cane sugar which needs a slower cooking process resulting in that extra crisp texture.

Order today in time for Christmas and be sure to say Haute Is Online sent you!

www.mrsmasons.com