The Meece family of Utopia has turned a love of baking into a home enterprise.

Utopia Cakes, a home bakery that sells old-fashioned gourmet cakes, opened for business last September.

Baking the cakes out of their river-front Utopia home has been a rewarding and fun initiative for the entire Meece family. Nancy Meece, along with her daughter Pam and husband Clayton, have baked thousands of cakes since production began last year.

“They have really taken off,” said Nancy. “I have been baking all of my life and everyone just seems to love my cakes. People call them ‘stop you in your tracks’ cakes. They’re moist, heavy cakes from recipes that I have had saved for years.”