Tip Top is the shop a lot of Easley families turn to when a cake has to carry the day: wedding tiers, birthday cakes, and the boxes of cupcakes that get sent in for a whole class. Everything is made to order, and the range runs from classic and elegant to playful, including custom pieces like the succulent-and-cactus cupcakes one customer had made for a shower.
It has been a small, family-run, husband-and-wife bakery since 2010, and that shows in how people describe working with them. Customers say you can come in with a rough idea and let them take it from there, and more than a few describe the baked goods as tasting like something their grandmother used to make, which is about the highest compliment a from-scratch bakery earns.
Past the celebration cakes, the case keeps cupcakes, decorated sugar cookies, and cake pops. The thread that runs through the reviews is that the cakes come out as good to eat as they are to look at, moist, with icing people single out, and strawberry among the flavors that get a specific mention.