Michael M.
Yelp
Come with your sweet tooth! And your self control or your going to leave with a lot treats and an empty wallet, but you won't regret it.
Before I talk about the quality of the product I've got to write about the owners. There is just something special about people who really care about their customers and see every person who walks through the door as a good friend, even if it's your first time.
You may not even realize that your talking to the owners, their Mom (or Grandma as the kids work here too) because there is no pretense, just great service. If you need hand holding and have a lot of questions they take the time to help you out. This is the kind of bakery where you go to order something special for an event or drop in when you just need a treat. And if you have a minute to hang out and talk they will try to make the time to say hello and you can tell they are honestly glad your there.
I can't count how many businesses I've been in including some that I have left negative feedback on Yelp where they have no clue how to treat people. No customer service, no appreciation for your business or respect for your time. This is not the case at Sweet Stuff.
You will find all the design books you would expect from a better bakery, a tasting room for wedding planning, and a great show case up front. As for the display case it's filled with salivate inducing treats to eat there or take back to the office or home.
If your planning a special event they take the time to help you design a cake or other treat that matches your theme perfectly. Have a special invitation and design, they know how to match it, they probably even know where you got it and can match the design perfectly.
I've gone to bakeries who make pretty, even amazingly artistic deserts that taste like junk. You know when you eat it and no matter how pretty it was your left regretting having eaten it. Perhaps even annoyed that you wasted the calories on a tasteless uninspired treat that makes you feel sick, this is not the case here.
Everything is amazing, cookies, cakes, cupcakes, cheese cakes, danishes everything. These are the kind of treats you might say to yourself "I don't need those extra calories, but it was worth it"! It's that good!
After spending some time picking the perfect deserts for two parties my wife was planning. And after one of the owners had spent a significant amount of time helping us locate the invitations my wife had sent to ensure she could match the design I started asking questions about other products.
Some of you may know I like to cook and I also strive to avoid a lot of sugar. I had questions about how certain things were made and they were perfectly happy to answer all my questions. We ended up buying cookies, a pumpkin spiced cheese cake, and two pints of cakes that we wanted to share with our daughter and her husband to sample.
The pints were not packed to be pretty, they were packed to be generous! These were not the kind of thing you'd display, this was the kind of treat you'd want to grab 3-4 other people and a bunch of spoons so everyone could share. Packed with flavor, creamy frosting that was not too sweet and just the right balance of tart/sour that must have come from cream cheese or sour cream. Blended in to balance out the sweetness and spices that were obvious and well represented, but not over powering. We tried the orange and the pumpkin cakes and the pumpkin cheese cake to take home for later.
One callout was the frosted sugar cookie; My wife loves these but can be picky if not done right. She felt they were a little dry and not buttery enough and rather uninspired, just ordinary. Surprising compared to how awesome everything else was, but cookies are not their main thing, it's cakes and cheese cakes.
Just one more great reason to drop into New Albany, along with the many other worthwhile restaurants without all the traffic and stress of the Highlands.
