The Latest from the Shop

Starting Tuesday, Sept. 6th  we are closing at 6 p.m. instead of 7 p.m. We are still open at 6:30 a.m. Monday-Friday though (and 8-3 on Saturday). As always we're closed on Sunday.

The following little poem is on the title page of The Holiday Inn Cook Book and Travel Guide (1962). Inside you'll find recipes from Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Saginaw. This weeks recipe for Black Bottom pie (see the recipe section of this website) is from Kalamazoo. As you travel this holiday weekend, remember that there's great recipes to be found just about everywhere!   A book to guide you from coast to coast To Holiday Inns the nation's h...

Every year on Labor Day weekend we have lots of two-wheeled visitors from all over Michigan and around the country. This year is the 41st year that the DALMAC has been held. Bike riders travel from Lansing up to Mackinac Island and lots of them ride right through DeWitt and right by the shop. Each year lots of folks stop to get coffee, breakfast, and sweet treats "for the road".  For many folks we've become a must-stop along the way. Each year we also try to take pics of many of our visitors. If you click on the link below you'll ...

What a surprise we had a couple of weeks ago when one of our pink kitchen doors decided to jump off it's hinges and land on the floor, resulting in a "window" in the door that wasn't supposed to be there. We tried many times to put it back together with no success... so next time you're in the shop, check out our new kitchen doors that now match the color of our floor!

For as long as we've been in business Sweetie-licious has been a welcoming place for Mormon missionaries to stop and take a break after long days of knocking on doors in our area. This summer we've gotten to know two wonderful young Elders. They stop in and chat and have somethng to eat, they help us put together pink pie boxes, and last week, after being inspired to try their hand at baking, they even brought us a bag of chocolate chip cookies that they baked themselves!  They are a blessing to...

...there they stood, a cluster of of seven or eight in a sort of clearing on the hilltop under a effulgent sky, and they were heavily drooping with knobby, long. glistening mulberrries, some pale green, some ruby, some jet....while we gathered a whole pailful of the berries, Aunt Elsa told me with darting eyes how often she had visited the mulberry grove with her mother, who had spread a worn white sheet on the grass beneath the trees, then had gently shaken the branches while both had stood together watching the fat, juicy berries plop down.&#...

Cheryl Kellogg, who has been a "Sweetie staffer" longer than anyone, except for Linda, is leaving us to help start a family-based business. Today is her last day and we held a breakfast celebration in her honor at the store. Linda presented her with her own pie - Cheryl's Raspberry Pie - complete with a pie story about how much she has meant to us all. We will miss you Cheryl...

At the end of each summer, just before our graduating seniors go off to college, we hold a celebration/cooking class for them. This year Katie Coon (who is going to Ferris State U.) and Betsie Hundt (who is going to Central Michigan U.) were the guests of honor. They each received a copy of The Betty Crocker Cookbook.

On Tuesday (August 9th) we will begin making lots of peachy treats using sweet Michigan peaches. We'll be making Peach pies, Blueberry Peach pies, Cherry Peach pies, Raspberry Peach pies, Peach Rhubarb pies, and Peaches & Cream pies. We'll also be making Peaches and Cream Muffins, and Peach Melba Muffins. To make sure you get the pie you want, please call the shop (517-669-9300) to place your order. Peach season is very short... so don't wait too long!!

"Rhubarb was one of my father's favorite pies. Clean saucers were produced for the pie, and as the knife slide through the tender crust and loosed the juice which ran like liquid rose quartz, our lips involuntarily moistened with the dew of expectancy and our eyes narrowed to the charm of color and form. For, after all, what more pleasurable shape or pattern can meet the eye than that of a generous wedge of luscious, ambrosial pie?" Della Lutes, The Country Kitchen (Little, Brown, 1938)