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Susan McMakin opened her doors in 2005, and twenty years on, the shop still works the way the name suggests: custom cakes built one at a time, treated as commissioned pieces rather than something waiting in a case. Wedding cakes are the signature, though the range runs well past them. Groom's cakes, birthday and graduation cakes, religious and corporate cakes, and full showpiece builds all come out of the same kitchen. What sets it apart from most custom bakeries is the everyday side: cupcakes and ready-made cakes are stocked for walk-ins, so a midweek craving doesn't need an appointment. Only the big builds do. Those larger orders run through appointments and tastings, and the pace is deliberate. The team caps how many cakes it makes each day so every one gets real time and real hands on it instead of an assembly line. Decorating parties and private events run by reservation. Regulars tend to mention two things that don't always come together: cakes that look like art and still taste the way you hoped they would. The other steady note is loyalty, families who bought a sweet-sixteen cake here, came back for the wedding, then for their kids' birthdays, with a team that has recreated an anniversary cake twenty years after the first. Which flavors and fillings belong with which design is the part worth coming in to work out.