Seph’s Sweets

I order my daughter Quinceñera cake from Seph Sweets. I emailed with Sephora back n forth n she was absolutely amazing! Very responsive n just AMAZING at what she does! My daughter had an Enchanted Forest Theme n her cake was amazing! Exceeded expectations! Thank u so much Sephora.

As always a great experience… Lately I go and they are busy with people sitting with their kids or reading or working on laptops. It’s cute and quiet. They are always friendly to me and know my usual. I try and go about once a week if possible.
I love the spinach bagel they have for breakfast and the yogurt smoothie I just had today for the first time. So good!
Not sure why they don’t have 5 stars and especially 4 stars from people who said they had a lovely experience but don’t give a reason for a 4 …
Maybe I’m missing something but I will always love coming here especially when I need a pick me up

I have purchased about 6 cakes within a year with Sephora and I might add that I will continue to do so. I do most of my orders via email. Sephora is very polite and very detailed when it comes to orders. She is always spot on. I recently ordered two cakes, a bride and groom cake. I showed her the picture, that my bride found on Pinterest, and when I went to pick up the cakes it looked like she took the cakes out of the picture and placed them in boxes. They were amazingly BEAUTIFUL and the guest LOVED them, but most importantly, my bride and her groom LOVED the taste and look of the cakes.
I have tried multiple cake pops and cake balls from here as well. I have been thinking about going to try their drinks and other sweets.
Sephora’s cakes are very well priced and taste amazing. I have bought my sisters bridal shower cake and cake pops (red velvet with cream cheese and raspberry preserve filling), her grooms cake (same as the shower cake), my birthday cake (Chocolate, marble and vanilla cake with strawberry preserve filling), one of my brides shower cakes (1) red velvet with cream cheese and raspberry preserves and 2) chocolate and marble with strawberry preserves) and now my best friends baby shower cake (All Chocolate). I will continue to order my cakes from Seph’s Sweets.
I have never been disappointed with their service or their sweets :)
Thank you Sephora for all your time and dedication to making your sweets AMAZING!!!

Flew in Chicago for a business meeting and needed cupcakes quickly. They were so accommodating, making a batch for me on the fly. The cupcakes for adorable and delicious!

I used Seph’s Sweets for a bridal shower cake and it was the best red velvet cake I have ever tasted. Moist cake with a light buttercream frosting and Cream cheese filling. Everyone was raving about the cake!

Since Rolf’s Patisserie in Lincolnwood closed, I had not been able to find a place that made great cakes. For my daughter’s 2^nd birthday I decided to look for a family owned place and found Seph’s Sweets. I’m so glad I gave them a chance because Seph’s work is amazing. We ordered cupcakes and a small Rapunzel theme cake and they were not only delicious but they looked adorable as well. I think I found my ‘go to’ bakery.
Thank you so much for a wonderful experience and yummy cakes!

My husband brought home gluten free cookies from the bakery. They were not only beautiful but very delicious! They were incredible and I would not have known they were gluten free-that’s talent! :)

I am new to the area and upon walking home from the library decided to pop in and see what this place was all about. Just looking at the menu, I can tell I’m going to be here a lot in the near future! They have everything from coffee drinks, to smoothies, to soups and sandwiches/​salads and desserts! The cake ball my daughter and I shared blew me away. I want more! The soup was yummy too and it was a fun way for my daughter and I to kill some time and have a bite to eat before family arrived. We took a menu to go and I will be back for a latte :) They also do cakes and specialty items and we can’t wait to order a cake for our baby’s 1^st birthday. Great place!

Seph made our cake for our wedding last month and it was amazing! Tasted delicious, looked beautiful and was an amazing price. She even rented us a very cute cake platter! The shop is adorable and working with Seph was super easy.

I chose Seph’s Sweets to do my dessert table at my wedding and it was the best choice I’ve ever made! Sephora is so talented — her cakes, cupcakes, and cake balls are absolutely delicious and very affordable, so we just had to hire her!
We met with her before the wedding to choose flavors, and we were given a great assortment to choose from. She even packed us a little to go bag so our families could try, too. She has excellent communication skills and was always quick to respond to emails. She accommodated special requests without question, and was able to deliver the sweets on our wedding day, despite the location being over 30 minutes away. Everything was fresh and decorated gorgeously — we received so many compliments!
I highly recommend Seph’s Sweets for any special occasion, and I can’t wait to pop by for a treat the next time I’m in the area!

What an outstanding little shop. Seriously — Sephora is a dream maker. I communicated with her via email to arrange a cake to be custom designed for my mother as a surprise graduation gift for when we would be in Chicago. She was so attentive, creative, and catered to my preferences perfectly. Price point was amazing… though she did point out that could be because I’m from NY ;)
The cake was delivered to the hotel and handled perfectly. My mother, the rest of the family, and I were both extremely pleased. Thank you so much, Seph’s Sweets!

My daughter and I went in to grab a cookie and Hot Chocolate (her favorite). She had picked a shortbread, which looked good… But when she bit into it, it was hard as a rock due to the fondant (yuk) that was on it.
Not realizing the price, I was charged $ 3.95 for a cookie and $ 1.50 for a not so great Hot Chocolate. Really?
Needless to say … I’ve had better at many other Bakeries in the Chicago area and I have made by own homemade shortbread cookies which are way better.
I gave three stars for the effort.
Overpriced and flavorless.

I ordered a cake from them for my sister’s engagement party and was extremely happy with it, and the service I received. The baker was very prompt about emailing me, and did an amazing job with the cake. It was beautiful. Also, they have very good prices!

They have the best cakes and bakery items. Always fresh and made with real ingredients. Their personnel is friendly and considerate.
Order a cake and you will be amazed at the taste and quality.
They have decent coffee.

I really like this place!! not only are they local to me… very local… but they are so friendly, and sweet… Always nice to my son who is 4 now. Everytime I come in the owner greets me and smiles, as well as her daughters. They even bring us are trays! The food is good too and I love my iced coffees! Thank you Sweet n Simple!!!

My new husband and I ordered our wedding cake from here. They truly live up to their name. The whole process was as simple as could be. We only met at the bakery one time and held the rest of our communication through email which was great for me since I don’t live in the neighborhood anymore. We ordered mini cup cakes and a small top layer cake for cutting and our cake topper to sit on. They delivered and set up the cup cakes so beautifully. The cake was delicious, and their butter cream frosting is the BEST! I would definitely recommend their services if you are looking for simple, beautiful, reasonably priced, and delicious cakes! Thanks so much!

I ordered my sons first birthday cake from here and OMG what a beautiful job they did!!! It was way beyond my expectations. The whole party (100 people) commented on the cake and asked where it was from.
Not only was it beautiful but it tasted wonderful and was incredibly affordable. I have paid double for cakes like this and had no idea I could find one so beautiful and wonderfully priced. Had I known about this place I would have gotten my shower cakes here too.
5 stars for sure :)

I try to like this little bakery because I try to support small businesses in my area… but it’s a bit hard to do at times. Sometimes, you will go in there and get a well made drink… and other times they add so much syrups that its not even drinkable.
Every time I go in there, I am the only customer. I have never seen one other person in there. Since I am the only customer, you’d think they would go out of their way to be friendly. Unfortunately, that is not the case. I went in yesterday and today. Yesterday I ordered a caramel latte and a bagel. There was a younger girl working the counter. The latte was so scalding hot (she didn’t use a thermometer. I watched her make it) that I couldn’t even take a sip for a good 20 minutes. Never made the extra attempt to start a conversation or even say «have a good day.» She pretty much took my order and went in the back never to be seen again.
I went in this morning and ordered the Caramel Macchiato. This is my fav. at known chain, so I thought I’d see how theirs was in hopes I could switch over. There were so many pumps of that god awful syrup in the drink that I threw it away. So sweet I couldn’t drink it.
For the most part, the lattes are decent. but I hate the aftertaste of those syrups they use quite heavily. It would be better if they dulled them down and used some real stuff to compliment (real caramel, chocolate sauce, etc)
Bagel was good. but it’s a bagel. Their cookies I saw were $ 11.99lb… which is way overpriced so I will not be buying.
I will still come for the occasional latte if I’m in the circle, but wouldn’t go out of my way. especially since their prices are pretty much the same as Starbucks.

I have to start by saying that the owner/​employees at this bakery were very nice, and I have no complaint about the service.
I had purchased a groupon, or youswoop, or something of the sort, for $ 20 worth of food and drink, so I decided I would take several different things home to try.
First, I ordered the cuban sandwich. You had your choice of either ham lunchmeat or turkey lunchmeat. I guess I am not used to having that kind of cuban sandwich. I am used to having slow cooked, real pork, not lunchmeat and especially not turkey. But, I decided to give it a try anyway and chose the ham. I have to say that the sandwich was very good, and it came with a bag of chips on the side which was an added bonus.
I ordered four different bagels to try for breakfast the next few mornings. I had chcolate chip, banana nut, apple streusal (?), and plain. I ordred cream cheese to go with them, which was just little individual servings of Philly Cream Cheese… fine by me because I love Philly Cream Cheese.
Every one of the bagels was excellent. I was very satisfied with those.
I ordered a couple chcolate croissants. They were good too, but nothing out of the ordinary. They were just croissants with a little bit of chocolate drizzle on the top. I was hoping there might be a little chocolate surprise in the center, but there was not.
Now we get to the reason I only gave this bakery two stars. Carrot cake and Almond Cake.
I LOVE carrot cake and I can eat and enjoy carrot cake at a lot of different places and made a lot of different ways… except here. I am not quite sure what they put in the cake part of it, but it was kind of dry and tasteless. I love cream cheese frosting as well. I’m not sure what kind of frosting they put on their carrot cake, but it did not taste anything like cream cheese frosting. It tasted more like a bland marshmallow type frosting. I took two bites of this cake and tossed the rest out. I can honestly say I don’t think I’ve ever done that before, especially with carrot cake.
Since I had a sweet tooth that day, I decided that since carrot cake was not to my liking, I would try the almond cake.
Again, I took two bites of the almond cake and threw the rest out. It did not taste anything like almond apart from the piece of slivered almond I bit into. It was made of a chocolate cake with almond frosting in between the layers and on top. It also had some kind of sauce to it, but I could not figure out what that sauce was. Anyway, the chocolate cake was dry and spongy and didn’t really taste like chocolate. I was very disappointed because I really wanted it to be good and rich and moist, and it was none of the above.
If I happened to be passing by this bakery again, I would go back just for the bagels, and maybe the sandwiches, but I definitely will not make any special trips to go there again.

I am a fan of buttery, fresh cookies and this turned out to be a great place to go for them. And the prices are reasonable! I also picked up a couple of cupcakes which were delicious.
The sandwich I ordered — ham and cheese — was pretty ordinary… ok but not especially memorable. This is not the place for a great lunch, but it is definitely the place for great dessert.