Want to find the perfect slice? Check out some of our picks for the best coconut cake around the South. Luckily, as much craft goes into the menu as the surroundings, especially when it comes to their coconut cake. Their old-world recipe creates a three-layer cream cake, filled with coconut custard and covered in cream cheese frosting and toasted coconut. The cake has made an easy transition from family staple to customer favorite.
Perfectly moist, but not too dense, the coconut cake has been a top seller since they opened. Anne likes to keep it simple and keep the flavor of the cake pure. Located in an old Coca-Cola factory, this Southern-inspired bistro always has coconut cake on the menu, but the cakes are freshest on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays when they bake them. Bathed in warm lighting and the quiet hum of conversation and clinking wine glasses, this French bistro is settled in the bustling Five Points area of Birmingham.
Find the recipe on page This masterpiece features four layers that are brushed with simple syrup, layered with coconut custard, and frosted with whipped cream and toasted coconut. This New Orleans hotspot bakes a down-home cake like your grandmother used to make. This simple cake is the classic fulfillment of the cherished dessert, full of love and flavor. And, being off the regular tourist track, this is the perfect place to get to know the locals.
With three layers of cake soaked in coconut milk, a reduced coconut milk icing, and coconut extract, this cake does not shy away from its name. Served with lime sorbet and fresh lime zest to cut the richness, this dessert balances a Southern background with tropical flare. Though the cake was initially intended to be on the menu only a short time, it has quickly become a mainstay.
Her coconut cake recipe was handed down from an old Southern neighbor, and she has never deviated from the original. This homey, comfort- food cake is made from wholesome ingredients, with which the bakers are generous. Their recipe for this traditional cake calls for an old-fashioned method of making your own coconut milk by shredding fresh coconut and soaking it in water or milk.
It is then added to the cake mixture where the traditional recipe calls for regular milk. The remaining shredded coconut is drained, toasted, and used to top their Italian meringue buttercream icing. When you stop by to pick up your Christmas coconut cake, do some shopping, too—with pieces from local artists decorating the walls and mugs and creamers created by local potters, Honey Bee Bakery loves to help new artists get their start. Originally a potter by trade herself, owner and baker, Shannon Adams, says she now shapes baked goods instead of clay.
Three layers of cake are divided by toasted coconut and a rich coconut buttercream, while the outside of the cake is kept a pristine white. Kumin went on to become a White House pastry chef and a teacher, but his sumptuous creation is still served occasionally at the Four Seasons.
And it can be ordered to take home. You cannot stop eating those warm pull-apart rolls that Geoffrey Zakarian serves at the Lambs Club. So why not take some home? The cake consists of 6 layers of rainbow-colored vanilla sponge stuffed with tiny chocolate balls and sprinkles that pour out when you cut into the center.
Watching their faces light up when they remove the first piece is a truly magical experience. If you want to get the kind of birthday cake you might see on a televised baking competition, this is the bakery for you. Everything is totally inventive and over-the-top! They also have standard birthday cake offerings, like beautiful rainbow, red velvet, carrot cake, chocolate fudge, or vanilla confetti cakes. To build-your-own custom cake, use their Cake Builder Feature, here.
And fortunately, this bakery is one of the few birthday cake specialists on this list that also ships their cakes nationally. You can order them through Goldbelly.
This tiny LES institution is something of a hidden gem, favored by locals who love their excellent trifles and cupcakes. However, Sugar Sweet Sunshine also makes reliably excellent custom birthday cakes, as well, but not many people know that.
As a result, they are totally under the radar! One year, my husband worked with their team to design a custom Peanut Butter and Banana Cake for my birthday. No shade to the other cakes on this list, though. Later, I bought my mother a custom pistachio cake from this same baker.
It was fun creating a flavor profile that was tailored to her specific taste. I told them about this, and the bakery delivered exactly what I envisioned. Sugar Sweet Sunshine also specializes in hybrid flavors like mocha.
True mocha, not artificially flavored mocha. And they have great customization options for gourmands , as well. City Cakes makes crazy, insanely-creative fondant designs that prove anything is possible when it comes to birthday cake imagination. Go here if you have a specific, ambitious design in mind. They can produce almost anything in cake form. See their epic Roman Colosseum Cake, above.
Obviously, this creativity comes at a price. The execution is reliably flawless. City Cakes also does wedding cakes and celebration cakes for corporate events, as their cakes are notably suited for dazzling crowds. Accordingly, we recommend ordering for birthday parties rather than intimate gatherings. This OG gluten-free NYC bakery on the Lower East Side is perfect for anyone who is gluten-free, vegan, dairy-free, kosher, avoiding wheat, or any combination of those things.
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