Our guide was a recipe from “Kneaders Bakery and Café” by Colleen Worthington (Shadow Mountain Publishing). The recipe makes much more buttercream icing than was needed for one charlotte.

There were no social media announcements, signs or banners when Vicky Bakery quietly made its Fort Myers debut in the El Dorado Plaza on Thursday, Dec. 5. Apparently, there didn’t need to be.

You loved these recipes. Now see what made our Top 25. By Margaux Laskey Well, that was fast: It was January, we blinked and now it’s December. Quite a bit has happened in the last 300 or so ...