Cake Menu: 2024

These are our BEST SELLERS, curated with great love and care after 14 years in business and thousands of custom cakes made.

You are welcome to mix & match from the combos below. For example, pair our vanilla cake with lemon cream cheese + strawberry compote. Or, go with dark chocolate cake + Nutella buttercream. And so on!

WHITE WEDDING

Vanilla Hot Milk Sponge + White Chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream + Seedless Raspberry Compote

SALTED CARAMEL CHOCOLATE

Chocolate Cake + Chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream + Cacao Nibs + Salted Caramel Sauce

STRAWBERRY FIELDS

Vanilla Hot Milk Sponge + Strawberry Compote + Strawberry White Chocolate Buttercream

HONEY BUNNY

Carrot Cake (no nuts, no raisins!) + Burnt Honey Buttercream

FERRERO CRUNCH

Vanilla Hot Milk Sponge + Nutella Buttercream + Chocolate-Hazelnut Streusel

LEMON BLUEBERRY

Lemon Cake + Whipped Lemon Cream Cheese + Blueberry Compote

CHOCOLATE COFFEE PECAN

Chocolate Cake + Turkish Coffee Buttercream + Candied Pecans

ALMOND APRICOT

Almond Hot Milk Sponge + Marzipan Cream Cheese + Apricot Compote

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VEGAN* or GLUTEN-FREE** FLAVORS:

CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY

Dark Chocolate Cake + Raspberry Buttercream

FIORI DI SICILIA

Almond Cake + Lemon Buttercream (with optional Blueberry Compote)

CLASSIC CARROT

Carrot Cake + Cream Cheese Frosting (Note: We never add nuts or raisins to our carrot cake)

CARDAMOM & COFFEE

Vanilla-Cardamom Cake + Espresso Buttercream

Or, feel free to mix-and-match. For example, dark chocolate cake + espresso buttercream. Or, almond cake + raspberry buttercream, etc.

* VEGAN = Made Without Animal Products (incl. Dairy, Eggs, Honey)

** GLUTEN-FREE = Made Without Ingredients Containing Gluten

PLEASE NOTE: All of our baked products may come into contact with WHEAT, EGGS, PEANUTS, TREE NUTS, and MILK. Our gluten-free, dairy-free, and vegan cakes are baked separately with great care using sanitized equipment. However, we cannot guarantee that they will be free from all traces of the aforementioned allergens. For more information, please ask us!

Seattle Custom Cakes Strawberry Cake Baking Ingredients

Cake Menu: FAQ

  • Absolutely! We specialize in crowd-pleasing, memorable cake flavors that your guests will love. Most of our combos are based on nostalgic, classic, and well-known flavor combinations. If you want something even simpler, like vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream, then we’ll give you the most delicious all-vanilla cake we can make! Just ask us.

  • Yes! You can treat any of the cake & filling flavors on our menu as separate items, to mix and match as you please — for example, our dark chocolate cake from the “Salted Caramel Chocolate” combo, paired with the white chocolate cream cheese from our “White Wedding” combo instead. Or the burnt honey buttercream from “Honey Bunny” paired with our almond hot milk sponge instead of carrot cake. And so on!

  • Yes, we can! The flavors listed above are what we do best, and what we’re most proud of. Having said that, if you’re hankering for a particular type of cake and you don’t see it here, please reach out to us and tell us more. We can typically accommodate almost any off-menu flavor request, for an additional fee. The exceptions are: Keto/Paleo cakes, recipes from your grandma / aunt involving Miracle Whip instead of eggs, and the rare request that is too wacky or context-specific for us to feel confident about putting our name on it!

  • No, not necessarily. Our default exterior frosting is vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream, which is naturally off-white in color. ALL our cakes are frosted with this delicious buttercream before we apply any other decorations (with the exception of vegan or dairy-free cakes, which are frosted with a plant-based version of our classic Swiss meringue buttercream — but this is also naturally off-white in color). The chocolate part, or any other filling, is tucked BETWEEN the layers of cake and isn’t used for the exterior. If the design calls for it, we would add a tint to our off-white buttercream to produce a color that matches your event palette. Having said that, if you WANT to have a chocolate frosting on the outside, that’s totally fine too!

  • In that case, you’re in the right place! We make everything from scratch — all our cake batters, buttercreams, citrus curds, mousselines, fruit compotes, caramel sauce, milk soaks and syrups. We do this because we believe in the power of tradition, and because we want to have control over the sugar content in everything. Sugar is an important ingredient in baking (not just for sweetness — it contributes volume and body, stability, moisture, and shelf life to the finished product). It’s taken us years to refine our recipes so the sugar content is JUST right and all the other flavor components can shine.

    Importantly, we use Swiss meringue buttercream as the base for all of our buttercream-based fillings and exterior frostings, which has two-thirds less sugar (by volume) than a traditional “American” buttercream. All the sugar is dissolved into the meringue as well, which means it is SILKY smooth and doesn’t have the grittiness that American frosting has. You’ll be pleasantly surprised by how delicately sweet our cakes are, allowing you to appreciate the entire composition of the dessert. We’re chefs first and foremost, artists second, so in our view, the cake that your guests enjoy at your celebration needs to be just as special and memorable as any dessert course they’d enjoy in a five-star fine dining establishment.

  • Our gluten-free cake batters contain: Honey Crumb’s own gluten-free flour blend (see below), cane sugar, baking soda, baking powder, whole eggs, whole milk, extra-light olive oil, vanilla bean paste, vanilla extract, rice vinegar. Additions, depending on cake flavor, as follows: Cocoa powder (for chocolate cake); almond extract (for almond cake); organic grated carrots, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg (for carrot cake); ground cardamom and espresso powder (for vanilla-cardamom cake).

    GLUTEN-FREE FLOUR BLEND: Sweet white rice flour, whole grain rice flour, potato starch, whole grain sorghum flour, tapioca flour, xanthan gum, salt.

  • VEGAN CAKES: Cake flour, cane sugar (not processed with bone char as a whitening filter), baking soda, baking powder, salt, ground golden flax seeds (as egg replacer), apple cider vinegar, organic unsweetened soy milk (or organic unsweetened almond milk), extra-light olive oil, and vanilla extract. Additions, depending on cake flavor, as follows: Cocoa powder (for chocolate cake); organic grated carrots, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg (for carrot cake); almond extract (for almond cake); vanilla bean paste and ground cardamom (for vanilla-cardamom cake).

    VEGAN FROSTINGS: Violife® unsalted plant-based butter, powdered cane sugar (not processed with bone char as a whitening filter), organic soy protein isolate OR aquafaba powder, soy milk (or almond milk upon request), vanilla extract, and salt. Additions, depending on cake flavor, as follows: Kite Hill plant-based cream cheese (for cream cheese frosting), lemon juice and extract (for lemon buttercream), espresso powder (for coffee buttercream), raspberry puree (for raspberry buttercream).