Classic American cakes & cookies. Incredible buttercream, moist cake, nostalgic snack cakes. Go-to for celebrations & everyday sweets.
This bakery is a local gem for classic American-style cakes and baked goods. Patrons rave about their moist cakes, perfectly balanced buttercream, and delightful takes on NYC classics like black and white cookies. It's a go-to spot for celebratory cakes and everyday sweet treats, with a consistent quality that keeps customers coming back for over a decade.
Known for classic American-style cakes and baked goods, this bakery receives high marks for its moist cakes with excellent buttercream ratios. Popular items include black and white cookies, rainbow cookies, swiss rolls, and snack cakes like the Brooklyn Blackout. Customers specifically recommend the vanilla cake base with crème fraîche and various cookie offerings.
"Customers highly recommend the classic American-style cakes, particularly the vanilla base with crème fraîche and excellent buttercream. Other favorites include the Brooklyn Blackout snack cake, black and white cookies, rainbow cookies, and Swiss rolls."
Customers consistently praise the bakery for its high-quality, delicious cakes and baked goods, highlighting the perfect balance of moist cake and sweet buttercream.
"The author enjoys Empire Cakes for their basic American style cakes, describing them as dense, moist, with a great, sweet but not cloying buttercream. They also mentioned that the bakery offers red velvet, though they are unsure if they have personally tried it, but have not had any disappointing items from them."
Positive"Empire Cakes was recommended for their classic American-style buttercream cakes, which are also available as cupcakes or slices."
Positive"Empire Cakes is suggested as a place that likely has whoopie pies, which are similar to the dessert the original poster is looking for."
Neutral"This user shares their habit of taking home leftover cake from Empire Cake, freezing it for future enjoyment."
Positive"This user describes ordering a full quarter-sheet of Empire Cake's rainbow cookies and freezing them, and also buys birthday cakes from there for loved ones."
Positive"This user agrees that Empire Cake is excellent for classic American-style buttercream cakes and cupcakes, and notes that their cakes freeze well."
Positive"This user recommends Empire Cake for their fancy versions of NYC classics like rainbow cookies and black-and-white cookies, also praising their snackcakes, particularly the Brooklyn Blackout."
Positive"Empire Cake is recommended, and the user particularly enjoyed their Swiss rolls dipped in dark chocolate. The bakery has locations in Chelsea and Greenwich Village."
Positive"This user suggested Empire Cake as a place that might have the specific type of vanilla cake with chocolate glaze the original poster was looking for."
Neutral"Responding to a query about frosting, this user suggests that Empire Cakes could potentially customize their vanilla cake with lemon filling to have regular buttercream instead of raspberry, and could offer this as cupcakes or a 6" cake."
Positive"This user expresses a positive sentiment towards Empire Cakes, stating they 'love Empire'."
Positive"Empire Cakes is suggested as a bakery that makes excellent cakes, offering two versions with vanilla cake and lemon filling but different buttercream flavors."
Positive"This is a confirmation of the recommendation for Empire Cakes."
Positive"Empire Cakes is loved for its classic American-style sweet buttercream cakes."
Positive"This establishment is recommended for regular cakes and is noted for making nice products."
Positive"The commenter seconded the recommendation for this bakery, stating their cakes are both beautiful and delicious."
Positive"This bakery offers vintage-style cakes with buttercream icing."
Positive"This place is a preferred choice for cakes."
Positive"The original poster expressed gratitude for the Empire Cake recommendation and indicated they would try the suggested cake."
Positive"This commenter recommended Empire Cake, stating they make great cakes and have an option that sounds close to the user's request: a vanilla créme fraiche cake with passion fruit curd and coconut Swiss meringue buttercream."
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