Shorewood cakery celebrating new location

November 02, 2024 at 8:00 am CDT

Anh’s Cakery & Cafe at 1151 Brook Forest Ave. in Shorewood, is seen on Tuesday, October 22, 2024. (Denise Unland)

The Plainfield Shorewood Area Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon-cutting celebrating the grand opening of Anh’s Cakery & Cafe in a new store and the cakery’s new membership with the chamber.

The new location is at 1151 Brook Forest Ave. in Shorewood.

Five years ago, Anh Cakery & Café owner Anh Dempsey moved from Vietnam to the Joliet area, where as a stay-at-home mother Dempsey taught herself to bake.

Anh Cakery & Café offers cake pops, cheesecake, cookies, fruit tarts, macaroons, mini cakes, specialty cupcakes and cookies along with Vietnamese coffee, Boba tea and fruit teas, according to the website.

For information, call 815-200-6965 or visit Anh Cakery & Cafe – Shorewood on Facebook.

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Denise M. Baran-Unland

Denise M. Baran-Unland is the features editor for The Herald-News in Joliet. She covers a variety of human interest stories. She also writes the long-time weekly tribute feature “An Extraordinary Life about local people who have died. She studied journalism at the College of St. Francis in Joliet, now the University of St. Francis.