During the holiday season, Sweet & Simple bakery makes and sells this tree of stacked gingerbread cookies held together with icing. About a foot tall, it’s a delicious edible centerpiece for a Christmas table.
Snowflake-shaped sugar cookies topped with royal icing are the bake shop’s best seller.
Edible gingerbread houses can be bought completely ready to go.
Or you can assemble and customize your own house by purchasing one of the kits sold at the shop—fully baked walls, roof and all fixings included.
Owner Michelle Jaffee assembles a gingerbread house.
Traditional gingerbread men, cut and frosted by hand, are also a top seasonal seller.
The gingerbread men are cut and frosted by hand.
Popular items include Mexican Wedding Cakes—puffy cookies made with walnuts and dusted with powdered sugar.
Company owner Michelle Jaffee holds a tray of her sugar cookies. An ever-changing collection of vintage ceramics and cake stands lines the shop cabinets.
Bring joy to the season, literally, with sugar cookies topped with royal icing.
Jaffee also sells large glass jars filled with a variety of cookies.
Candy-cane cookies are a perennial children’s favorite.
A midcentury display case decorated with vintage ornaments holds stacks of cookies—from gingerbread men and mitten sugar cookies to peanut blossoms and raspberry linzers.
