Best places for cake in NYC?
My best friend and I have birthdays that are separated by ten days. Our plan is to eat (at least) a slice of cake on each day between our birthdays. We want to try cake at a different place each day. Please recommend your favorite places to purchase cake, preferably in a slice-ular form (and recommend a type of cake or two!). We are looking for anything in Manhattan, or anything in the boroughs that is less than 20-30 min. outside of Manhattan, and can be reached easily by subway/bus. Thanks!
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17 Comments:
Try the apple cake at Sugar Sweet Sunshine on the Lower East Side.
Try the chocolate cake at Perilla restaurant
Try the Babka, either cinnamon or chocolate sold in Dean and Deluca
Mich23 at 9:06PM on 08/06/07
you HAVE to get a slice of red velvet cake at Make My Cake in Harlem - it's at 103 W. 110th, at Central Park North, so it's right off the 2/3 line. i've heard everything is great there (the cupcakes look great, but i don't know if you're sticking to slices) but I never stray from the red velvet.
i also (and i know it might be sacrilegious to stray from their cheesecake, but...) love the coconut cake from Junior's, which is right in Grand Central, or of course in Brooklyn. my dad gets it for his birthday every year and it's become one of my favorites.
happy birthday! and what a brilliant plan!
rebeccadiamond at 9:32PM on 08/06/07
Major seconding on Sugar Sweet Sunshine. Ive never tried the apple cake but everything else they have there is wonderful, so why wouldnt it be?
I also like Billy's Bakery in Chelsea, especially the pineapple upside down cake. The 'everything but the kitchen sink' cake always looks awesome too but Ive never actually eaten it. Anyone else?
Umm...theres also a really good place in Williamsburg, on Metropolitan Ave near the Lorimer L stop, but the fact that I cant remember the name has to be a subliminally bad sign.
Annmarie at 2:05AM on 08/07/07
try the carrot cake sold at film forum movie theatre -- i promise you won't be disappointed. but definitely get a miniature haagen dazs vanilla ice cream cup to enjoy with it.
the raw molten chocolate cake at pure food and wine will make you die and go to heaven.
and, though not in slice form, the cupcakes at babycakes (i like vanilla with vanilla buttercream) are divine.
happy birthdays! oh, and if you love you cake and you're ever in san francisco DO NOT LEAVE without having something from miette patisserie in the ferry building.
numnums at 3:44AM on 08/07/07
Cafe Scaramouche in Carroll Gardens. It's a little hole in the wall kind of place and everything there is absolutely delicious. http://www.cafescaramouche.com/
ceforrester at 9:17AM on 08/07/07
Juniors Bakery in Times Square. They have a Strawberry Short-Cheesecake that looks INSANE! Basically SSC wrapped in a blanket of cheesecake.
MsJones at 12:55PM on 08/07/07
I cant believe it - 6 posts and no one has mentioned Cake Man Raven on Fulton Street! He is known for Red Velvet Cake but I like the pineapple too. He only sells slices out of the store so that would work out well for your cake quest.
708 Fulton St. in Brooklyn (Very easy to get to - C to Lafayette gets you right there)
http://www.cakemanraven.com/
dinar at 1:03PM on 08/07/07
I really disliked Cake Man Raven..
And have to agree with Rebecca about Make My Cake.. Best Red Velvet I have ever had. I have made Red Velvet Cake from several sources and still can't find anything better then theirs.. Its beyond..
NYBITECLUB at 11:37AM on 08/08/07
Baked in Red Hook! This is probably out of your 30-minutes-from-Manhattan range, but it is so worth it!!! And there are plenty of great places to eat and drink in the area to make the trek extra worth it: Good Fork, 360, Hope and Anchor, Boca Lupo, Lucali's, Alma Viva, Frankie's Spuntino, Brooklyn Social. I hope you give it a try!
K at 1:56PM on 08/08/07
Atlas Cafe
2nd Ave between 4th and 5th
NY, NY
212-539-0966
Cafe Viva
Broadway between 97th and 98th
NY, NY
212-663-8482
Cake Shop
152 Ludlow Street
NY, NY 10002
212-253-0036
Curly's Diner (previous owner of Veg City Diner)
14th Street between 1st and 2nd
NY, NY
212-598-9998
Edgar's Cafe
255 84th Street
NY, NY
212-496-6126
emilyo at 3:54PM on 08/08/07
Thank you so much everybody! I am sorting through your suggestions now, but keep 'em rolling!
ovylicious at 4:43PM on 08/08/07
The applesauce-carrot cake at The Little Pie Company is amazing! moist and dense. 407 W. 14th St (near 9th ave.) I wasn't a big fan of cake (in general) until I tried this.
rose11 at 8:48PM on 08/08/07
I do love the Cake Man, although the 35 people always crowded around the door on Fulton Street bring back terrible memories of when my roommate tried to make me wait for a Magnolia cupcake in February.
Annmarie at 3:06AM on 08/09/07
I love the Busy Bee Cake at Blackhound. It's on 2nd between 10th and 11th.
beakulon at 1:41PM on 08/31/07
Baked in Red Hook is awesome... But you need to go to Sugar Sweet Sunshine Bakery (Get the Bob cake and a big cup of banana pudding)
mplaidgirl2 at 9:39PM on 02/09/08
Happy happy B-days!!! And what a fun idea. You are so lucky to have so many choices. I've been to NYC several times and the only one of the bakeries I'm familar with is Magnolia which I wasn't impressed with at all. These are such great suggestions for my next visit. Does Chick-a-Licious or Blue Ribbon Bakery do cakes?
frederika at 10:30PM on 02/09/08
i adore the layer cakes at formerly yura, now the corner bakery on 3rd ave and 93rd st.. the yellow cake is my favorite but they don't have it all the time. their cupcakes are lovely, too.
amy's is another good place to get a delicious slice of cake.
cybercita at 10:46PM on 02/09/08