Stories, tips, and local perspectives from across the Finger Lakes.
In Sterling, a small Cayuga County town that sits closer to Lake Ontario than to any of the Finger Lakes, Sweets By Sarah Bakery has established itself as the region's top bakery by the only metric that matters: the people who live here voted it Gold for Best Bakery two years running, in 2024 and […]
Sweet Ki's has built a following in Geneva without ever opening a traditional storefront, which in 2025 might be the savviest business model a small-batch baker can adopt. Operating as an online order-based company through the Bakesy platform, Sweet Ki's specializes in stuffed cookies that are as visually striking as they are indulgent. The 2025 […]
Sweet Indulgence Pastries operates out of a small shop on West Main Street in Wolcott, a quiet town between the Finger Lakes and Lake Ontario that you would not expect to harbor a Silver-winning bakery. But pastry chef Eva, who spent more than two decades perfecting her craft before opening this spot alongside her partner […]
Simple Sweets operates out of a small storefront on Castle Street in Geneva, and what it lacks in square footage it makes up for in butter. This is a cookies-first bakery, and the cookies are the reason people drive across town — buttery, generously sized, baked fresh daily in flavors that rotate with the seasons. […]
Dave and Rita's sits on Route 96A in Romulus, in the narrow strip of farmland between Seneca and Cayuga Lakes, and from the outside it looks like exactly what it is: a small roadside bakery that you might drive past if nobody told you to stop. Inside is a different story. The cookie case is […]