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Phillip's Bakery

Couture Dessert

By Jennifer Teel Wolter

The baked goods in the window of Philipp’s Bakery put on quite a show. Cupcakes donning colorful tutus pirouette atop candelabras. Sugar cookies seem to dance about, and a wedding cake crowned with a sparkly tiara strikes a graceful pose befitting her status as prima donna of the bakery world.
    The whimsical dessert ballet gives the window an artsy vibe that would seem more at home in a Midtown boutique than in an 81-year-old landmark bakery on Folsom Boulevard. Yet for owner Cindy Philipp, wedding cakes wearing petticoats are no more out of place in a bakery than she is.
    With a background in fashion design and corporate-event planning, Philipp is an unlikely connoisseur of cakes and cookies. The granddaughter-in-law of the bakery’s founder, she stepped into the world of high-end baked goods with no previous knowledge of the industry.
    “I didn’t plan to do any of this — especially the windows. I’d done displays before in the fashion world and my creative designs weren’t always appreciated,” Philipp recalls. “At first, I hated that window. I wanted to rip it out. But now I love it. It’s important to show visually what I’m doing here.”
    Philipp’s Bakery has a venerable history as one of the region’s finest. Gray-haired Sacramento natives will undoubtedly recall a time when “anyone who was anyone” had their wedding cake done by Philipp’s.
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