Geneva’s Sweetest Spot

Next time you need a sweet snack after a late night, or need to refuel after a long study session, head down to Linden Street and check out Simple Sweets Bakery. The bakery, owned and operated by Marina Burgess, provides customers with an extensive range of sweets, both simple, and unexpected.

Marina opened the shop after deciding that she wanted to turn her long time hobby into a career. So far, it has been nothing but a success. Everything she bakes is delicious and her menu is seemingly endless. Her website offers an extensive variety of flavors and styles of cakes, cheesecakes, cupcakes, cookies, brownies, bars, fudge, candy, muffins, scones and pies.

Chocolate Covered Strawberries 

 Asked to pick just one sweet to name her favorite, Marina selected her Raspberry Dreams cake. This cake is just one of many sweets she bakes on Linden Street. “I make everything from scratch, with ingredients as natural as I can get them,” she explained.

While her sweeping list of flavors is unique for such a small shop, Simple Sweets Bakery also stands out with its “For the Big Kids” menu.

“Kids have special menus, why can’t we? We deserve a little fun too,” said Marina in regards to her selection of cupcake recipes that contain alcohol, such as Mimosa or Pink Champagne. (Keep these in mind for the next time you throw a party with your friends!) 

Mimosa Cupcake

Although her shop is still relatively new, she is already planning for its future. “I would love to see it become a permanent part of our city, to become a sweet little gem where tourists and locals alike want to come, and to keep the comfortable hometown bakery feel,” she explained.

Since its opening, Simple Sweets Bakery has attracted students from the College’s, tourists who are just passing through, and locals who “just get a hankering for something delicious,” described Marina. “Basically everyone with a sweet tooth, even the people that don’t like things ‘too sweet’ since nothing I make is overly sweet. I feel like it ruins dessert when it is too sweet to enjoy.”

Waste no more time and make your way to 16 Linden Street.  Marina, and her display case full of ever- changing sweets await you.

Brb, drooling. 

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