just desserts!
for the love of sugar
By LaVonne Trent | Lifestyle Editor
Oh, for the love of sugar, may be the sentiments of every dessert loving person on the planet. Cake connoisseur, Manal Hussein’s passion is her real love for sugar and the impetus for her midtown Detroit cakery café sensation, For The Love of Sugar. Within the construction and newly renovated establishments of Detroit’s growing resurgence, nestled among the busy activity, is Manal’s lovely place that could easily be on a street in Paris or a European Mediterranean vacation spot .
The Matilda Cake - Chocolate cake filled with a rich black chocolate buttercream. All images by Robere Lett for Haute is Online Magazine.
Owner & Founder Manal Hussein.
Triple Berry Vanilla Bean Cake is a White Vanilla Bean Cake filled with a Bavarian cream and an amazing tart triple berry jam.
The Matilda Cake.
Cheesecake Sandwich Cookie.
Specialty custom cakes.
Fruity Pebbles Cake.
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.
French Macarons comes in every color of the rainbow and flavors to match.
For the Love of Sugar’s signature Macarons.
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