Sugar Mommy’s Bakehouse
Sugar Mommy’s Bakehouse is based out of a blue cottage on South Austin Avenue. With a pink door and carousel-like animal statues, the bakery looks like the board game Candy Land. Inside, customers find display coolers full of elaborately decorated cupcakes, cake pops, desert bars and cookies.
Sugar Mommy’s most popular cake ball flavors are cookie dough, chocolate, dark chocolate whiskey and salted peach. With traditional cakes, popular flavors are confetti cake and lemon raspberry. Any of their desserts can be made gluten free and about half of their regular menu is gluten free. Custom cake flavors and decoration are their specialty, and Owner CJ Bedair said as they can meet just about any request.
“We made a cake that looked like a frog being dissected,” Ms. Bedair said. “All the insides were made out of candy, and fondant and modeling chocolate. It was really cool.”
She started the bakery 12 years ago after discovering her hidden talent for baking.
“I made cake pops for my daughter Luka’s first birthday and my phone rang, and it snowballed,” she said, until it got to a point where she felt she had to make them for a living.
As a Type 1 diabetic who had no prior baking experience, Ms. Bedair was an unlikely candidate for starting a bakery. However, it seemed like fate.
“Luka was a miracle baby — I wasn’t supposed to [be able] have kids; the doctors had been pretty clear that my body just wasn’t going to be able to do it,” she said. “But after me and my husband got married — it was bam, “Oh my gosh so we’re having a baby.”
The surprise made the couple want to celebrate their daughter’s first birthday in a big way.
“I had never baked prior to that,” she said. “My abilities came from being super creative and business savvy. Being able to be unique in a smart way.”
Ms. Bedair jumped on the then new ‘cake pop’ trend and started her own cake-pop-bakery out of her house. A year after that, she started selling pre-baked cake pops out of a pink airstream at Georgetown events such as market days and the Christmas Stroll.
The business evolved into her opening up her own cake-pop retail bakery and then merged with neighboring local bakery Cake Slice. After that, she bought the current location, which was formerly a residential property at 1215 South Austin Avenue, from family friends.
“I was born in Georgetown, and my business grew very quickly from the roots that my parents planted,” she said. “I knew that I wanted to stay here forever and be a part of this community. That was the driving force behind this business. I wanted to contribute to the community by being a good example of a mom and a wife and a business owner.”
As a business, Sugar Mommy’s is trying to focus on booking their event space for cake decorating parties and cake-pop making classes. Ms. Bedair suggested that these classes would be great for children’s birthday parties.
Sugar Mommy’s Bakehouse is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sundays. They are closed Sunday and Monday. The space is available for small events outside of normal business hours.
To order a custom cake or inquire about having a small private event, call the store at 512-869-2911 or visit www.sugarmommysgtx.com/menu.