IVINS — Turns out you really can have your cake and eat it, too.
Se’ Cheese Gourmet Cheesecakes owner Candice Fowler
preps cheesecakes at her business in Ivins, Utah, Aug. 7, 2023 | Photo by Jessi Bang, St. George News
At Se’ Cheese Gourmet Cheesecakes, they’re serving up indulgent flavors like pina colada, matcha tea and passion fruit. Just one bite of their new spin on old favorites like raspberry swirl, key lime, or New York cheesecake will likely have cheesecake fans pausing to close their eyes, take a deep breath and say, “Mmmm.”
“I feel like it’s a part of my parents and their legacy and it’s a complete honor to get to do this — something that my mother always loved doing,” Se’ Cheese Gourmet Cheesecakes owner Candice Fowler said.
The new Se’ Cheese Gourmet Cheesecakes booth can be seen at the Downtown Farmers Market in St. George, but Fowler said the name and original family business began in 1995 when she was 13 years old.
It was this year that her parents quit their jobs and put everything they had into starting their own cheesecake business. They purchased a hole-in-the-wall shop off Sunset Boulevard, and her father traveled from Mesquite to Cedar City, pitching Se’ Cheese Gourmet Cheesecakes to every restaurant owner who would taste and listen.
A variety of Se’ Cheese Gourmet Cheesecakes sit on a counter, location and date unspecified | Photo courtesy of Candice Fowler, St. George News
At one point, Se’ Cheese Gourmet Cheescakes were seen inside Pasta and Pizza Factory, a top-end Italian restaurant, a pub off Bluff Street and more. They found themselves so busy that Fowler and her five siblings began seeing their parents less and less.
“They had to make a choice,” Fowler said. “And they chose us. So just two and a half years in, they stopped and quit.”
After begging her mother for the legendary cheesecake recipes for years, Fowler said her…
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