just desserts!

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.