Open Wed — Sat
Beech Grove · Indiana

Welcome to the shop.

Creating custom tiers of joy!

A tiny candy-shop bakery on North Fifth Avenue in Beech Grove — hand-painted cakes, decorated sugar cookies, a wall of fifty-five-and-counting candies, and a "do not lick the walls" sign we sincerely mean.

Four-tier ivory wedding cake
Sunshine first-birthday cake
Halloween decorated sugar cookies
Giant donut novelty cake

Four-tier wedding cake with sugar peonies
This month

Four tiers, ivory on ivory, sugar peonies set by hand at midnight.

The bride wanted ivory on ivory. The groom wanted raspberry filling. We gave them both — with a single dark fold of buttercream where the thumbprint of the cake-cutter would land.

Dec 2024 · Wedding White × Raspberry Cream · 120 servings


Recent bakes

A little of what's been in the case.

Cherries, rainbows, citrus, skulls, princesses, and the occasional groom's-cake barrel of bourbon. Custom is the whole game.

Princess castle birthday cake
Princess · birthday
Turkey-shaped sugar cookies
Thanksgiving cookies
Colorful fiesta wedding cake
Fiesta wedding
Buttercream bourbon barrel cake
Bourbon barrel
Nurse pinning cake
RN pinning
Liz Thompson behind the counter at Gwendolyn Lee Cakery
Liz, in the shop

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Step inside

The shop on North Fifth.

Checkerboard floor. Pressed-tin ceiling. A whole wall of fifty-five kinds of candy, sprinkles painted right onto the wall, and a sign above the case that says — we mean it — do not lick the walls.

Interior of Gwendolyn Lee Cakery: checkerboard floor, teal counter with wedding cake, candy wall, yellow chair
Walk on in.
Bakery case with hand-painted cakes and pendant lights
The case.
Coffee and tea station with hand-lettered sign and sour belt jars
Coffee & tea.

A cake is the only edible thing a person remembers for thirty years.
— Liz Thompson, baker & owner

Pop in

Stop by on a Saturday morning — the case is always full of something you weren't planning to buy.

Walk-ins welcome for what's in the case. Custom cakes & cookies are by order. Wedding consultations are by appointment — 100 servings or more.

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