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Holiday Gift Guide: Don't Forget Something Sweet for Santa

There are plenty of places in the Bloomingdale-Riverview area to satisfy the most discriminating sweet tooth.

Don't feel guilty if you have no time to bake during the holidays. The Bloomingdale-Riverview area has plenty of places where you can buy custom-ordered cakes, cookies and candies for the holiday.

1050 Bloomingdale Ave., Valrico

Owner Karen Walker and her crew have been as busy as elves during this holiday season, baking up sugar cookies, gingerbread men, elaborate holiday cakes and more than 20 assorted flavors and types of cupcakes.

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Cookies, brownies and bars sell for $1 each while cupcakes start at $2.50 each.

Sweeties Delights' custom cakes can serve as a one-of-a-kind centerpiece or a hostess gift. Cakes care baked and made to order to ensure  freshness. Walker encourages pre-ordering your cake as soon as you know you need it. Cake prices start at $30 for a cake to feed approximately eight to 10 people.

1048 Bloomingdale Ave., Valrico

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The Caligiures' FishHawk Ranch home must be a popular stop for Santa each year. Leena Caligiure is a master chocolatier who has been bustling this holiday season to fill stockings with a variety of Christmas treats.

Among her holiday offerings are chocolate-covered cookies, decorated pizelles, gourmet chocolate ravioli and chocolate-covered caramel apples.

1017 Bloomingdale Ave., Valrico

Whatever you can dream up, Crumb de la Crumb owner Cindy Shoemake is ready to whip up. Crumb de la Crumb offers 19 flavors of cakes and cupcakes including pumpkin and apple spice.

Shoemake also creates cake pops and cookie platters for the holidays.

4377 Lynx Paw Trail, Valrico

At her Mediterranean restaurant outside River Hills, Naella Ayyoub serves up dishes from Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Israel including some sweet specialties of the region like baklava, namoura and warbat. Just call ahead to order a dessert platter.

 


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