A Cookie and a Cupcake opening in Cleveland this summer

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From The Cleveland Free Times:

Tremont will soon get a whole lot sweeter. Wendy Thompson, executive pastry chef at Dante (8001 Rockside Rd., 216.524.9404), will leave her post later this summer to open A Cookie and a Cupcake, a boutique bakeshop in Tremont. Located next to Eye Candy Gallery on Professor Avenue, the bakery will offer cupcakes, cookies and cakes for retail sale. Cupcake flavors will range from vanilla and chocolate to peanut butter crunch. In addition to custom cakes, the shop will stock classics like carrot cake, red velvet cake and German chocolate. "I have loved my time at Dante and Lockkeepers," Thompson says. "But I'm ready and excited to move on and do my own thing." Thompson's partner in the shop is SynDee Klingenberg, also from Dante. Look for a late-summer opening. — Douglas Trattner

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer:

Dante restaurant is pretty much golden. Here's hoping that glitter shines on his pastry team of Wendy Thompson and SynDee Klingenberg, who leave to open their own shop this summer in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood.

Executive pastry chef Thompson and pastry sous-chef Klingenberg plan for their store, A Cookie and a Cupcake, to feature custom-designed cakes as well as 12 flavors of hand-decorated cupcakes plus cookies, brownies and other confections. No opening date has been announced for the shop, which will be at 2173 Professor St., but if you want a preview of what the duo can do, you can look at their range of offerings and place an order online or by telephone.