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YOU’LL NEVER BAKE IN THIS TOWN AGAIN SusieCakes is here to give your oven a rest.
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ifteen years ago, Susan Sarich debuted SusieCakes in Brentwood, and Westside birthday parties were never the same. In the years since, the Chicago native has built a national brand based on her grandmother’s traditional Midwestern recipes for seven-layer bars, whoopie pies, classic cakes like marble, lemon, carrot, and red velvet, and of course, the crowd-pleasing six-layer celebration cake, made from layers of confetti-infused vanilla cake and frosted with Tiffany-blue icing. Sarich has since opened 23 locations throughout California and Texas, and her 24th debuts this month at 264 South
Lake Ave. The 2,400-square-foot shop features all of the company’s signature items, and as with all of the locations, everything is baked on site, from scratch, using the highest-quality ingredients. Look out for September specials like apple pie with crumble topping, iced molasses cookies, and German chocolate cupcakes. Wedding cakes, decorated birthday cakes, and bite-size caramels at the register will pull at your sweet tooth. Sure, baking at home has been a nice pastime during the pandemic, but it will never taste as good as Susie’s. Store opening slated for September 18; susiecakes.com — S A M A N T H A B R O O K S
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