Cake

I’m sad to see this place has closed :(but I still wanted to give them props!
My younger brother is turning the big 1 – 8 this year and I asked him what kind of cake he wanted. His answer? German chocolate cake (our dad’s favorite, too). I then joked about getting him one from Safeway. I’m not a snob and will eat Safeway cake appreciatively, but why pass up the opportunity to try a new bakery out? After some searching on Unilocal,I came across Cake. Here’s a timeline —
Friday — Looked at their website and didn’t see an online order form. Did see an email address, though
so I sent an inquiry at 11:07 AM. Andrea promptly replied at 12:05 PM, and told me that they could make a German chocolate cake, but that I should either stop by in person or call to confirm the order. Since I live close by, I decided to stop in the next day.
Saturday afternoon — Plenty of parking in the lot (metered). Cake is a cute little shop with a tiny display case and some other goods (local honey, cards, candles) on the shelf to the right. Andrea was finished up an order and told me she’d be right with me. I told her I was there to confirm and pay for my order.
My original pick-​up date and time was the afternoon of the 16^th, but I had to switch it to the morning of the 15^th. At first I offered a 10 am time, but Andrea hesitated, and I backtracked to picking it up at noon. I guess it’s unreasonable to expect a cake right when the bakery opens — hopefully it means she makes it the morning of the 15^th. :)
Paid for the cake and opted for an emailed receipt– $ 50 for a 9 inch German chocolate cake.
Monday the 15 — Dropped by a little after noon and the cake was all ready to go. It looked so amazing! The man that was there told me to keep the cake refrigerated and take it out about 1 – 2 hours before we were going to eat it.
Tuesday the 16 — Sang the «Happy Birthday» song and tucked in. I forgot to have my family take the cake out 1 – 2 hours beforehand so the frosting and inside layers were kind of hard, but still delicious. The chocolate cake was rich and very moist (three layers of cake with layers of coconut-​pecan frosting in between). My parents both commented on how the whole thing wasn’t too sugary sweet at all (definitely a plus). I bought the 9 inch thinking that we’d have seconds, but honestly, I think our family of five has enough for thirds at this point; it’s quite a formidable cake!
Thanks so much, Andrea, for making my brother’s birthday so special!

Oh boy, I’m sorry to say this but they have closed this shop! I went there today and there was a sign on the window thanking people for their business and support but they decided to close the shop. I wanted to see if they can do my wedding cake… the pictures of the cakes on Unilocal looked very nice. I will have to keep searching.

Just Purchased my wedding cake from here and it couldn’t have been more perfect. It was super soft and moist and everybody loved it. The owner was super nice and helpful with what we wanted and needed. The cake was delivered without a problem, and we couldn’t be happier. Will definitely be returning for future occasions.

Have now ordered cakes and cupcakes and other goodies for multiple parties and special occasions here, and they are always truly delicious, always ready on time and get RAVE reviews from people (sometimes while they are apologetically stuffing their face with a second cupcake that they didn’t plan on having, and often from people who sound surprised, because of course they were expecting cake and frosting to be tasty, but it’s on a different level than they thought). And, although it doesn’t say it outside the store, everything is as organic (as possible). I could go on … The daily scones are always fantastically moist and tasty. Huge thumbs up on their pies and macaroons and iced coffee. The buttercream is fabulous. And the owner is a lovely person, too. I wouldn’t hesitate to get a wedding cake here because she is so reliable and conscientious on top of the cakes being amazing.

I’m really disappointed that I did not get any photos of this cute little shop. Including the gilded seating area out front. Seating for two… the best coconut macaroons I’ve tasted in a long time. I will be back and prepared to share my full experience…

They do wonderful with special orders. My other half ordered a sugar free cake for my birthday and it was seriously the best sugar free cake I’ve ever had!

I had a last minute request to bring a pie to a special birthday party, so I called Cake that afternoon before I needed my pie. They were pretty busy, but promised to have my pie ready by the requested time. The next day, I learned that I needed to be at the event a little earlier than anticipated, so I asked if they wouldn’t mind calling me if they could get the pie done a bit sooner. Not only did they call, but it was ready an hour earlier than I had originally requested, AND IT WAS DEEELICIOUS!!!
It was a lemon meringue pie with the BEST lemon filling I have tasted in years, and the meringue was fantastic! The only thing I can suggest as any kind of improvement, would be for a somewhat lighter crust – but that’s just my personal taste. Everyone at the event absolutely LOVED the pie, especially the lady whose favorite kind of pie is lemon meringue – and it was an event to celebrate her 90^th birthday!!!
Thank you to the folks at Cake for making my mother-in-law’s 90^th birthday very happy!

Our Wedding cake tasted wonderful! Andrea was so helpful and easy to work with. She even brought the cake to our home and decorated it on site with roses from our garden. It had rave reviews by the entire wedding party and all the guests!
Thank you Andrea for making our wedding stress-​free, delicious and beautiful!

We were married May 30, 2015 and met with Andrea at Cake a few months ahead of time to taste her samples and decide on a design. It was all so easy, the cake looked fabuous and got raves from all our guests.
Thank you Andrea!

Finally got to try the root beer float today! SO delicious – the root beer is on tap, and they use Strauss organic vanilla bean ice cream. Also tried some of my boyfriend’s Sightglass coffee float, which was also amazing – kind of like an iced latte on dessert steroids.
The chocolate sandwich cookie is also incredible – the cookie’s texture is a lot like shortbread. I haven’t actually tried cake here, but I’m not much of a cake person anyway and their other treats are amazing, so I’m happy as is. :)

Super cute bakery in LA fiesta square with Tasty snacks, affogato and pour over coffee! Even some gluten free items.

How do they stay in business? There was just one slice of cake in the store. 3 layered Vanilla cake with chocolate frosting. Dry and not tasty at all. Even my kids didn’t eat it.
I didn’t try their cupcakes but my little daughter enjoyed hers. I will not go again…

Cake is a rare — VERY rare bakery. A real gem. If you can tell the difference between high quality butter and the most excellent ingredients available versus the artificial stuff just about every other bakery puts in their products, then this is the place for you! If you’re just as happy with Crisco as buttercream, or judge something by its size, you probably should pass on this, especially if you want to be cost effective.
If you go to Cake, I would recommend you not judge it by a single visit. There is a wide divergence between each offering. Some I’m not crazy about, but others I would fly across the country for. My husband’s favorite cupcake comes with not his favorite frosting. Same with me but we find if we swap frostings, it’s our favorite combination from any bakery we’ve ever been to. It’s just a matter of preference. It has become the only bakery we go to in the East Bay Area.
If you have little will power like yours truly, it’s a dangerous place. Those little cupcakes can really add up and they’re VERY addictive! Even writing this review is risky. It’s making me feel the urge to head to Lafayette.

After lunch at Chow today my friend and I stopped by Cake. I got the lemon cupcake with raspberry buttercream frosting. The woman behind the counter was very friendly and explained she used organic ingredients. However, the cupcake was not that great. You could barely taste the lemon and only a hint of raspberry was in the frosting. She said the frosting was a buttercream, but it tasted like a hunk of Crisco. If this was a Swiss meringue butter cream it was not that great.

I recently went to a 6 years old birthday party where a cake from «cake» was served. The cake was very cute with Elsa from Frozen and then her skirt was the cake. This cake was flavorless and boring.
The kids were actually making faces and throwing it in the garbage… And «fondant» for kids, really?!
I would not recommend this type of kids cake for a birthday cake it is not worth the money.
I threw mine away too.

My partner (now my husband) and I were married a couple of weeks ago at the Four Seasons on the Big Island. We ordered a couple of cakes from Kona Sweets, one of which was a traditional Hawaiian wedding cake with a lilikoi filling and a cream cheese frosting. I love the tangy tartness that lilikoi adds to cakes.
Tonight, my husband surprised me with a lilikoi cake from Cake. The cake was fantastic. It wasn’t too moist and it wasn’t too dry. The lilikoi infused butter cream was a pleasant surprise! I’m not normally a fan of butter cream but the butter cream here was light and fluffy which was unexpected. The lilikoi flavor really shined through.
I did not not give 5 stars only because I need to try the other cakes. After looking at their menu, I will definitely try other flavors. I’m also going to look into seeing if they do custom flavor profiles (i.e. a carrot cake with pineapple — to simulate the Hawaiian wedding cake — with a lilikoi preserve fruit filling and a cream cheese frosting).
I will definitely order my next cake from Cake!
NOTE: My review is based only on the lilikoi cake that my husband brought home.

Nice little dessert place in Lafayette… I haven’t been at this place since the place had a different name. I use to buy these mini cupcakes from this location which were out of this world… well, I don’t know if these are the same owners but at least the cupcakes are still as great! I don’t see any mini cupcakes anymore but that’s okay, they have something else that has caught my attention… Coconut Macaroons! Crunchy outside moist inside, you can taste the coconut and it’s just the right sweetness… awesome! As with any of the places I review… I hope they don’t change.

I saw a sign outside that they served Sight Glass coffee which is one of my favorites but I don’t get enough of it since I don’t live in the city. Since it was a bakery I also decided to try one of the coconut macaroons.
I was unhappy to find that the cold-​brew iced coffee I ordered came with a large dose of cream and sugar, something that really should be the responsibility of the customer to add.
I was also disappointed in the macaroon, it was quite small for the price and was very oily.

The cupcakes are gorgeous. They taste good, too. So do the other baked goods. My mom realy enjoyed her sugar cookie (shaped like a bunny!) and I really loved my chocolate chip one. They were both soft and super fresh. You could taste the quality of the ingredients (butter!). I secretly wanted a bite of the German chocolate cupcake we took home to my brother-​in-​law. It seems to me that organic baked goods really do taste better.
The cakes looked gorgeous. You can definitely tell that that is their main focus, because they don’t have a ton of things on hand. Still, there is enough that you will find something to nosh on and enjoy. The gentleman working the counter was patient and quite pleasant. Which is always a good thing. I’m sure I will pop in there again at some point.

About time there is this caliber of bakery in the area! Everything is so pleasing to the eye, and tasty as well. I stopped in for a little treat with my daughter and we chose a pumpkin whoopie pie, and a pumpkin cup cake with cream cheese frosting, topped with crystalized ginger. Both were so good! I added a photo of the cupcake.
This looks like a great place to get a special occasion cake, and I can’t wait to see what they do for the holidays :)