The mirrors on the walls of DeLuxe Cakes and Pastries are now adorned with pink satin bows, its ceiling decorated with hanging hearts as the smell of desserts wafts through the air it’s undeniably sweetheart season in Iowa City. While couples fight for reservations at restaurants across town during the week of Valentine’s Day,.
While many matches last just a few formative years, Jason Powers’s and Steve Warner’s relationship has endured through good times Warner was a groomsman in Powers’s 1999 wedding and hard times Powers waited in the hospital while Warner had open-heart surgery in 2018.
While marking 20 years in the bakery business, Iowa City’s DeLuxe Cakes and Pastries is raising donations during October and November for the Iowa City Free Lunch Program. Jamie Powers, owner and executive pastry chef, worked in hotels and smaller bakeries in Chicago and Denver before returning to Iowa City to be closer to her.