Sunday Is Fun Day At Sweety Pies

One word — WOW. This was very first official Unilocal event since moving to Chicago. and what a welcome! This was a GREAT event! Everyone was so nice and Sweety Pies feels like family :). Dana was great. SUPER helpful and we got to test our creativity with cupcake decorating. I’ve never worked with fondant before. but after this tutorial. I might just start using it on my own creations :). Now onto the cupcakes.
As a hobby, I bake and normally I am very picky when it comes to desserts… but Sweety PIes totally passed my test! Their pastries are made from scratch and it definitely shows! The cupcakes are AWESOME! And the frosting is DELICIOUS. The red velvet was moist. Their infamous black bottom cupcakes (chocolate cupcakes with chocolate chips at the bottom) are to die for! They’re filled with cream in the middle. and I love it. LOVE IT. when I get an extra surprise crunch with that chocolate chip at the bottom. Homemade cupcakes are the best and if I ever feel too lazy to make my own or don’t even want to think about the clean up. I’m coming here!
As an added bonus. we were given goodie bags to take home! So at home. I was also able to take pleasure in trying their pumpkin whoopie pies with cream cheese frosting. it tasted like Fall… in my mouth! SO GOOD! We also had mini sugar cookies, chocolate cookies, a cinnamon bun and a muffin. Oh the memories of eating delicious desserts for days! I have recommended Sweety Pies to my new friends in the city. and I’m coming back for more! Thanks Angela and Dana :)

This event was small yet exuberant! It was also a nice change from the usual events at restaurants. This experience was probably the most fun I will ever have in a bakery lol.
Dana and Angela’s friendliness and enthusiasm was radiating throughout the day. It was very uplifting considered how tired I was from a bonfire the previous night. I probably decorated the worst cupcakes there, but I had lots of fun regardless. I got to hang out with Sarah nuna for once. It was nice hearing about her experiences and what to expect when I near my 30’s. I still cringe at the thought of it and I still do not look forward of aging beyond 24 lol. But anyway… I really enjoyed the scenery the bakery held from within. The lighting was warm and bounced of the walls very well. It felt really nice considering the dreary weather outside at the time. I also have to mention the cute lanterns that decorated the bakery.
Thank you so much to Dana for the Cupcake Workshop. Your energy got me to do something I was not really fond of in the first place. It was so informative and I cannot wait to pass on this knowledge to my future wife or daughter. I am still a silly baker and decorator. Sarah nuna knows! But I still learned things regardless if I have pathetically decorated cupcakes lol. I had one with a weird green box design and then one with a stoic purple man. Thank You Angela and Dana for such a bright and uplifting time on a dreary Sunday.

This was my first Unilocal event and what a way to start! Even on a gloomy, rainy day, both Dana (cupcake extraordinnaire) and Angela (fearless Unilocal leader) managed to bring sunshine to participants of this event.
I loved the locally-​owned pride of the owners and the fact that this bakery is a family business adds to the charm of this local gem. The quality of work that goes behind each baked goodness is evident from the myriad of creations that ranged from cupcakes to cookies and birthday cake creations.
Having grown up in Skokie, I appreciate the commitment of this bakery to the community and will definitely be spreading the word to family and friends. The place has a charming quality that would make it ideal for a leisurely cup of coffee paired with a luxurious treat or even a cupcake decorating party for your little one or a group of lucky friends.
Thanks to Angela and Dana for a truly splendid event!

I was really excited for this event — Dana, the master baker of this cute little pastry shop, provided everyone with two cupcakes (Red Velvet, Black Bottom, or plain Vanilla); there was great information on the baking process and we each had the opportunity to decorate — the event had a limited amount of attendees which made it very intimate and wonderful. Everything was delicious and Angela did an amazing job! A great little dessert place in downtown Skokie, it’s definitely worth a trip back!
+decorate-​your-​own cupcake: D
+Dana :D

Absolutely amazing first Unilocal event!!! If this is how they are, well count me in for all moving forward! Angela did a great job coordinating with Sweety Pies to ensure we got a real feel for what they are all about. The staff was so friendly, laid back and generous. We decorated cupcakes, ate pumpkin whoopie pies, and got a real feel for what a small family owned business truly means. This isn’t a hop, skip and a jump from home, but I tell you what, for the baked goods and the feeling, I’d drive 20 + miles for some treats! :) Thanks again for all of the wonderful goodies and for the wonderful hospitality!

This was an awesome event! Dana, our «teacher/​head baker/​sweety pie» was so nice and helpful. She provided everyone with two cupcakes… we got to choose from the Black Bottom, Red Velvet, or Vanilla cupcakes. There was a cream cheese frosting, and a couple different colored sugar frostings? I’m not sure, but they were delicious.
I saw Sweety Pies on Chicago’s Best about a year or two years ago and always wanted to try it. We sampled cupcakes, cookies, pumpkin whoopie pies, and cinnamon rolls… everything was awesome. They do special orders for birthday parties, holidays, celebrations. I will definitely be back the next time we are in the area, or the next time we need a special treat!

It took an hour traveling via CTA, walking in the rain from downtown Chicago to attend this North Shore Unilocal event and let me tell youuuu it was 100% totally worth it! This is probably only the 3^rd time in my life I have done anything to do with baking. However although at this event, i didn’t bake i did get to decorate some cupcakes and sample all their delicious cake frosting. I was super impressed by the flavor of their cream cheese frosting!
This small event thrown by Unilocal is my first event with roughly only 20 participants. It felt very welcoming and intimate. We received a lot of one on one help with Dana the owner and her generous family/​friends during the process. I learned a lot about baking and learned that I am impatient with baking, but love to decorate.
This cute family owned and operated business is all self taught and they all are naturally talented. They serve a small but reasonable variety of baked goods. The name is totally fitting for this business because everyone is so sweet and they even sent us off with some goodies included a whoopie pie!
Thank you everyone who helped make this event possible!

I had such a great time learning how to frost cupcakes and decorate with fondant. Dana was such a fabulous teacher, patient and skilled at her work. It’s a family run business that uses the freshest ingredients and some of their notable goods are the crocodile pie (pecan pie with a little chocolate and rum), cake truffles and the awesome pumpkin whoopie pies we got to take home among the cinnamon rolls and cupcakes of our own creations!
It’s definitely worth the trip back!

Love this local café! Dana was so informative and taught us all about how to decorate cupcakes and the different types of tips that make different designs.
I used fondant for the first time and realized that it reminds me of clay and it takes mad skills to sculpt things!
Thank you Angela for hosting another delicious event! Sweety Pie «takes the cake» for the sweetest place to spend a rainy Sunday afternoon! My creations were so yummy and I enjoyed meeting new Unilocalers!
PS: you have to try their whoopie pies!!‘
Thank you Dana, Arden, and Jason for an amazing time! And for the goody bags!

Although Def Leppard didn’t play once while at Sweety Pies this afternoon, I kept saying Pour Some Sugar On Meeeeeeeeeeeee in my head! I had a sugar overload!
Sweety Pies is a cute shop in the downtown Skokie area with plenty of street parking but also a nice private lot two shops down. I love that it’s a family owned bakery and we got to hear some back story from Dana. Dana (did anyone else think she had an uncanny resemblance to Stephanie Izard?) was one of the best hosts at an event I’ve ever encountered! She explained everything thoroughly, helped us where we needed it and just gave us everything we needed while there. Oh your friend has been craving hot chocolate the whole trip over? No probs! They served it right to her in just a couple minutes. Oh you want shapes for the fondants? Sure! Let me grab some cutters, BRB! She was constantly making sure everyone had the frosting colors we wanted, enough cupcakes, etc. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced such hospitality from Unilocal event hosts.
I’ve been waiting for a Unilocal event at a cupcake shop and Angela, you’re a genius! She’s a genius because this wasn’t just an event at a cupcake shop but a fully functioning bakery specializing in just about everything plus we got to decorate things! I fancy myself a bit of a baker but nothing fancy — cookies, cakes, cupcakes, brownies — but never have worried much about decorating. I fell in love with fondant today. I heard horror stories of how hard it is to work with but I found it much easier than piping. The ‘class’ Dana gave us on decorating has given me a ton of fun ideas to take home. People made some super creative cupcakes — uh that Hello Kitty one made me super jelly. Mine paled in comparison but I had to bring the Unilocal love through on mine.
As if this all wasn’t enough, they passed around PUMPKIN WHOOPIE PIES! Pumpkin!!! Sugar & Spice & everything nice as we’re getting into the fall season. It tasted massively of pumpkins, as if they were chopped up fresh that morning and made into the pie. And knowing Sweety Pies, they probably were. I didn’t think I was going to like it, but it was Mmm Mmm delicious.
As the event ended and I packed up my 4 cupcakes for the road (Yep, 4), Dana told us they had breakfast treats for the road! Lo and behold a bag full of scones and a cinnabun! That’s going to be a fabulous breakfast tomorrow.
Angela dear, you know I think you’re amazing! You’re spot on that we need more fun, creative events like this. Thanks so much for coordinating it. Dana & the whole crew at Sweety Pies, you all are AWESOME! I so appreciate all you did for us this afternoon. Definitely brought some sunshine into an otherwise rainy Sunday afternoon.
Quiet now, I must having a 9pm cupcake snack. And in case you’re curious, it’s a Black Bottom Cupcake (Chocolate cupcake with a cream cheese and chocolate chip filling baked inside) with chocolate frosting. Envy isn’t a good look on you!