About Us

We are a bakery located in West Michigan that prides ourselves by using only handmade products from scratch using the freshest ingredients possible. Our goal is to provide brides with beautiful wedding cakes that fulfill their dreams, and our clients with stunning cakes that can't be beat!

Friday, July 23, 2010

Bridesmaid Ball

Sweet Cakes Design will be part of an upcoming event hosted by the local radio station, 105.3 HOT FM! The event is going to be Friday August 13, at 7:00 PM. It will be an evening of fun and games. They will begin the night with a "wedding gone wrong" hosted by the Dog Story Theatre with radio DJ Ellen Tailor as the Maid of Honor, and DJ Gravy as the Best Man. It is a free event, however you have to have a ticket to the event and it is a 21+ event. Sweet Cakes Design will be making a REAL wedding cake, that will be a part of the reception area at the "wedding". We will be cutting and serving the actual cake, so for those of you who have never seen our cakes before this will be a chance to see them. It will be a full size wedding cake, with multiple tiers and a top secret design that will incorporate the theme of the wedding! Check out their website for more details, and tune in to 105.3 HOT FM radio station and listen to hear our name.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Babies, Birthday's and Graduations

Along with many wedding cakes we do each weekend we have been doing so many specialty cakes for other events! Also as you may have noticed we are still working on getting our website back up and running properly, keep checking it for new photos daily! Here are a few photos of some of the awesome cakes we have been doing!!!

This was for a first birthday, with a lolipop theme. So much fun!


We loved the story behind this one. It was for an new mother to be who was having a scheduled birth and they wanted to celebrate with a cake!


Monkey See Monkey Do! This was our intern, Angela's very first 3-D fondant character!


One of our photographer friends, Jen Kroll had a cake made for her son Ethan's Birthday. He is a HUGE fan of the Harry Potter Lego game for his WII, if you couldnt guess


This was a cake for a boy graduating from high school who was going to college to be a biochemist!!! Thus the microscope cake and the scientific writing. Hope he understands what it means, we sure didnt!!!

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Website Under Construction!!!

In the process of trying to update to newer photos on our website we seem to have lost everything!! Yikes. So if you are wanting to look at the site, hang in there we are doing the best we can to quickly fix this problem. We know you are just dying to see some new pictures of our cakes we have been working on so we will be updating and fixing this as soon as possible!!!

On a happier note, if you have not yet added us as a friend on Facebook join soon! We are going to be having tons of fun giveaways this summer and have recently posted our first one! Starting July 1st and running until July 31st we are having a "Refer A Friend" event. We will be offering a 25% off gift certificate to each client that refers a first time friend to place an order with us. Only exceptions are on wedding cakes as we are almost completely booked for the year. Only one certificate per client :)

Along with many many wedding cakes that we have been doing, we have had the opportunity to do quite a few fun kids birthday cakes. Here are a few to share with you:


This top picture was for a little girls birthday who wants to be an astronaut!!!

A fun scooby doo cake!!! 

One fish, two fish. Red fish, blue fish. Cat in the Hat birthday celebrations!!!

One of our favorite cakes!!! Alice in Wonderland. We tied in all of the elements of the movie, and even put a little fondant figure of Alice sticking out of the rabbit hole!!! It even had a tea party set on top! So cute!


The one on the right was a fun sweet 16 party, and the cake on the left was for a baby shower that we decorated to match the sheets that the new mother to be had picked for the nursery.


Wednesday, June 16, 2010

New Things To Come!

As many of you know we are back into the swing of things with our wedding season starting up! We are working on getting cake pictures updated on here as well as on our Facebook! Look for more posts to come with lots of pictures of what we have been up to! Follow us on our facebook and read about the people behind the cakes! We are going to be introducing each of the members of the Sweet Cakes Design team over the next few weeks on our Facebook. This week we are going to be featuring Sweet Cakes Design's very FIRST intern, Angela! Also keep an eye out on there for some interesting contests and give-aways that we will be having this summer!

Here is a sneak peak at one of our new cakes that we did recently for a lucky young lady's sweet 16!!!

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Exclusively @ Leigh's

Leigh's in Breton Village kicked off a pre-spring break party last weekend by show casing the opening of their Lilly Pulitzer shop. Love the bright colors and patterns! Refreshments were served along with mini cupcakes created by SCD.
Be sure you add a shopping trip to Leighs on your "to-do" list and check out their amazing Spring & Summer fashions..or check out their website at www.leighsfashions.com!







Wednesday, March 24, 2010

2009 Wedding Cakes


We love it when some of our couples or their photographers send us their photos of the cakes we created for them. I will be the first to admit that I am not a photographer...I leave that up to the experts!
Here a couple of pictures that were sent to us within the past couple of weeks.....Thank You!

January 9, 2010
Dawn & Nate
Thank You to Paul Retherford @ www.PaulRetherford.com
for providing these great pictures.....great job Paul!



This wintry cake design really complimented Dawn & Nate's vision of a winter wonderland theme.
A nice variety of cakes were served to their guests.....1/2 chocolate fudge& 1/2 white chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling, French vanilla cake with Bavarian cream & french vanilla filling and raspberry swirl cake with raspberry butter cream filling.

Dawn also surprised Nate with a tree stump grooms cake which was our Cookies and Cream cake with French vanilla butter cream and crushed oreos...mmmmmmmm!
Too Cute!



October 17, 2009
Noddea & Calin

What a fun couple! They are both very talented actors and are very involved with the Civic and Circle theater and wanted a cake designed to reflect their love of theater, jazz and New York City! Well, I believe we fit the bill.........check it out. Thank you to Noddea for providing us these pictures!!

They had replicas of themselves made for the cake top....aren't they cute!



The three tiered cake consisted of carrot cake with vanilla cream cheese filling, buttermilk spice cake with caramelized Apples and caramel butter cream and almond cake with pear ginger butter cream filling.


Tuesday, March 2, 2010






Bridesmaid Cake
This sweetheart cake was created for Jenna Rose of www.jennarosephotography.blogspot.com. She needed a cake for a photo shoot project, and requested lime green and pink colors and stated that she loved plumeria's. We were happy to accommodate and loved the way it turned out. Check out Jenna's work...she's amazing!


Here are a couple of "milestone" birthday celebration cakes we created these past couple of weeks for two special guys! We love it when our clients give us an idea of what they're looking for and let us run with it!



Eric is a big fan of Founders, so his wife surprised him with a large beer mug cake. Oh course we had to add some peanuts and pretzels! This cake was a German chocolate cake filled with milk chocolate buttercream and coconut pecan filling. Delicious!

Love, love this cake! This was for a 40th birthday bash that our friend Diana Racek of www.mimosa.me requested we create for a client of hers. It was made with our fabulous carrot cake with vanilla cream cheese filling. Yum!
Be sure to check out Diana's web site to see more pictures of this special event.
Great job Diana!