A new venture from a pair of local bakers will bring custom cake design and trendy desserts to the heart of downtown Liverpool.
Sugar Blossom Cake Shop, located at 304 Tulip St., will open its doors this morning after months of preparation from business partners Kaleigh Ligoci and Lauren Scarpelli.
The creative duo plans to fill the bakery’s glass dessert case with colorful macaroons, cupcakes, cookies, bars and brownies. Specialty coffee will be served by the cup or purchased by the bag. Custom consultations for wedding and special events cakes will take place on the bright second floor studio, where Ligoci displays her collection of vintage cake plates alongside tiered wedding cakes decorated with delicate scrollwork and realistic sugar flowers.
“I just want our sweets to bring people joy and lighten their day a little bit,” said Ligoci.
A Cicero native, Ligoci has a local audience as well as an international following. After learning the basics and business of baking at Alfred State, she got her start at Mario’s Bakery in North Syracuse. She spent six years working at Turning Stone, where she oversaw wedding cakes for the resort’s multiple venues, followed by stints at Sugar & Co in downtown Syracuse and Half Moon Bakery & Bistro in Jamesville.
As her skills grew, so did her social media following. She has more than 45,000 followers on Instagram, where she is known as The Little Cake Artist. Fans from Syracuse to Lagos, Nigeria, tune into stories and posts that showcase her sugar work and frosting skills. Followers get a sense of the time and precision it takes to make a double-layered chocolate mousse cake or a two-layered, gluten free lemon cake with raspberry jam filling and vanilla buttercream.
She’s teaming up with Scarpelli, who grew up in Lake Placid and studied baking and pastry arts at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks.
The pair met while working together at Half Moon, and their new venture is a dream come true for both of them.
“I’ve pretty much wanted my own bakery since I started going to school,” Ligoci said. “This has always been my end goal.”
Ligoci and Scarpelli said customers can look forward to having delicious treats, as well as great customer service.
“Starting a new business is scary on its own - and COVID is not making things any better - but we are so optimistic,” Ligoci said.
“We want to grow something, build something that’s our own,” she said. .
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