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When the Cake Ball Company left our neighborhood a year ago, well, it left some of us feeling a wee bit lost, empty and missing that sweetness those delicious little frosting-shelled balls injected into our lives. But Haute Sweets Patisserie is here to ease the pain.
Update: this article has been edited to reflect the fact that, so sadly, Quesa-d-ya’s in Lake Highlands has closed.
Haute Sweets Patisserie, which has been operating out of the catering kitchen 3015 at Trinity Groves, is moving into its own new digs, right here in the Lake Highlands area, at Northwest Highway and Ferndale.
Haute Sweets heretofore focused primarily on supplying desserts to hotels and restaurants, rather than dealing with retail customers, owner and pastry chef Tida Pichakron tells us. But that changes now.
“As a result of Yelp.com, we have had quite a number of customers walking into our location. So we decided to look for a space that could support our production volume for our wholesale customers as well as provide us a retail storefront. We were fortunate to find a place in the Lake Highlands/White Rock area. The location was previously the Cheesecake Love/Cake Ball Company.”
Courtesy hautesweetspatisserie.com
This humble suite (nestled somewhere between the takeout restaurant Quessa-D-Ya’s Tandy Leather and a the handmade-wares shop Makers Connect) once housed what is likely Lake Highlands’ greatest pastry-related success story to date, the Cake Ball Company.
The Cake Ball Company originated with a couple of moms peddling delicious doughy, icing-coated spheres at church fundraisers. So scrumptious and in-demand were these nuggets that their purveyors set up shop, moved a ton of product, appeared on Rachael Ray, and eventually altered both business model and location to better accommodate mushrooming popularity.
We were sad about the departure, but Haute Sweets — which also has enjoyed fame by way of TLC’s Fabulous Cakes, Food Network Challenge Sugar Inventions and Extreme Pirate Cakes and Food Network Sugar Dome, according to its website — is going to make everything OK now.
Pichakron says they are aiming for a March opening.
