Icing on the Cake Bakery

My turquoise 1965 Easy-Bake oven should get some credit. With half of the cake batter eaten before it passed under the light bulb, I should have known there would be a bakery in my future.

Icing on the Cake is all about nostalgia. The pleasure of baking began for me as a little girl making sawdust pies in plant saucers in the backyard. When I was strong enough to pull a chair to my

mother's side, I would be a part of her weekly ritual of keeping our family's cookie jar full. Opening my lunch box to find a homemade treat was pure joy.

As an adult, I still love when butter and sugar come together in a mixing bowl. Creating desserts as well as sharing them is definitely what I'm meant to do in this lifetime. I'm doing what I love. Maybe it's being Italian that plays such a part in the pleasure of knowing that so many people enjoy our handmade desserts.

With absolutely no formal training or food-related job experience, the opportunity came in September of 1985 to open the bakery in a little house in Los Gatos, California. Never afraid of hard work, I knew that the bakery would only succeed and dove right in.

The aroma of freshly baked desserts wafted outside but Icing on the Cake became known as one of the town's best-kept secrets and easy to miss if you weren't one of our devoted regulars. With the help of a handful of dedicated employees who shared my passion, our cases were filled daily with made-from-scratch cakes, cookies, brownies, pies and cupcakes (long before they became their own food group). Word soon spread that there was a buttery little bakery in downtown Los Gatos worth seeking out. And so they came.

We grew steadily over the years and expanded our wholesale business into a nearby commercial kitchen. After 15 years of learning and growing, the opportunity came to relocate to a beautiful new building on West Main Street. In February of 2001, we combined our wholesale and retail operations and thrive today with more exposure and efficiency.

Icing on the Cake and it's dedicated staff continue to offer premium products, which also include wheat-free, flourless and vegan desserts. If you're not familiar with the bakery, we hope our website will give you a taste of what makes Icing on the Cake so special until you can experience our desserts for yourself. These are the desserts you think about, crave and love. Just what I set out to create back in 1985.

Lynn