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The best cake shops in Singapore

Looking for a cake for an occasion or just for personal purposes? Pick a cake from one of these choice shops

Cheryl Sekkappan
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Cheryl Sekkappan
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Birthday cakes. Wedding cakes. Cheesecake. Chocolate cake. Cake for one, just one. We sift through the best bakeries to present you with the best cake shops on the island. Don't worry – the perfect cake is not a lie. But if you want to lie to yourself about the calories you're consuming, go right ahead. 

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Top bakeries to order cakes in Singapore

  • Restaurants
  • Bakeries
  • Tanjong Pagar

If you're a fan of Chateraise and its delicate bakes, bookmark the chain's latest concept: Chateraise Premium Yatsudoki. You'll find a range of luxed-up items – pastries, wines, and soft serves – that are exclusively available at its Tanjong Pagar outpost. But if it's cakes that you're looking for, you can also pick up Japanese-inspired slices and whole cakes. Try the Japanese chestnut mont blanc ($8.50) or Yatsugatake milk souffle cheesecake ($5.50) which you can have in a variety of fruity flavours. Look out for seasonal flavours too – examples are the Japanese Strawberry Fair featuring cakes made with rare white strawberries from Japan known as awayuki. 

Whyzee
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Whyzee

With more than 100 different cake selections to choose from, including mouthwatering red velvet peanut butter cake, indulgent chocolate praline cake and yummy lavender earl grey cake, your sweet-tooth cravings and celebratory obligations are fulfilled with Whyzee. With affordable pricing starting from $30 with no minimum orders, Whyzee offers cake delivery in Singapore within the hour – great for those last-minute essentials. You can also bundle gifts like flowers and balloons with the cake to make an all-in-one present delivery. There are also mini bites like brownies, cupcakes and muffins to enhance the variety of offerings during your home celebrations. Check their website for monthly offers, rewards and promotions too.

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Chalk Farm
  • Restaurants
  • Orchard

Shoot top down on a clean background for maximum Instagram points – Chalk Farm's simply dressed cakes channel the rustic vibes that dominate hashtags on the 'gram. Thankfully, that same philosophy carries through in its substance. Self-taught baker Bryan Koh's bakery, with a presence in Paragon and Parkway Parade, claims to use fresh ingredients and no preservatives. The much-loved treats in his repertoire include the gold dusted 24 Karat Brownies ($56/whole cake), naked salted caramel macadamia layer cake ($8.50/slice, $68/whole cake), and a super-sized kueh salaat ($5/slice, $60/whole cake) made with fresh coconut milk, butterfly pea extract and squeezed pandan juice.

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  • Bakeries
  • Rochor

This Muslim-owned bakery in Kampong Gelam is best known for its cupcakes and doughnuts, but serve up fluffy, satisfying sliced and whole cakes too. Go classic with a moist carrot cake or indulge in some chocolatey goodness with the Ferrero Rocher cake. If you're into local flavours, the pandan gula melaka cake should do the job. Watch Fluff Bakery's Instagram page for more special and limited-time-only flavours. 

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  • Restaurants
  • Bakeries
  • Bedok

Love durian? Enjoy it in a decadent cake from The Durian Bakery, where the quality of the durian itself is not compromised. Rather than using leftovers of the pungent king of fruit, the bakery only uses pulp from the Mao Shan Wang durians it delivers from its private plantation in Pahang, Malaysia. Try its signature cakes, like the award-winning signature Mao Shan Wang mille crepe cake and classic Mao Shan Wang durian cake; or go for more innovative flavours like black forest cherry with Mao Shan Wang. 

  • Restaurants
  • Cafés
  • Tanjong Pagar

The cake selection at this Japanese pastry joint is fairly limited, but their quality and delicacy more than makes up for it. Popular cakes include Yuzu Raspberry ($65) – light vanilla sponge sandwiched between layers of yuzu mousse topped with curls of Valrhona white chocolate, as well as Japanese Matcha Azuki ($65) – a matcha souffle sponge filled with Azuki beans, dark rum and matcha mascarpone. Other cakes are as disarmingly simple, allowing Japanese inspired flavours like black sesame and hojicha and classic like chocolate and cheesecake to shine on their own. 

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  • Bakeries
  • Hougang

This humble bakery is hidden in a quiet neighbourhood of Hougang, and its cakes are just as unassuming. The simple strawberry shortcake (from $34) comes with soft, moist layers of sponge cake sandwiched between lightly whipped cream and fresh strawberries. Also popular is the Scarlet, a cream cheese mousse cake scented with lemon with a tart red fruit gelee hidden in the middle.

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  • Bakeries
  • Rochor

You might be greeted by Beyonce or Diana Ross when stepping into The Fabulous Baker Boy. These are just two of founder Juwanda Hassim’s creative cake creations; there are over 14 elegant tiered treats on display, each with an uncanny source of inspiration. From the aptly named Diva series, sample the Beyonce, a take on lemonade with layers of lemon and yoghurt sponge; or try Ms Celine Dione where Valrhona white chocolate and macadamia sponge comes sandwiched between fresh raspberries and raspberry compote.

 

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Rich and Good Cake Shop
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  • Bakeries
  • Rochor

The menu is limited but so what? Old-timey favourites like soft swiss rolls, walnut cakes and Pandan chiffon cakes are the star attraction here but if you only leave with one thing from the store, it has got to be the Kaya swiss roll. True to their name, these cakes are rich and good – filled with delicious homemade kaya and priced at an affordable $8 a roll.

Pantler
  • Restaurants
  • Cafés
  • Tanglin

Pantler knows what cheesecake fiends want, and how to do it just right. Which is why the classic cheesecake ($6.80/slice, $48/600g) is its bestseller. The cake’s golden brown top yields to fork, and crumbles like no cheesecake does – but in the best way possible, because you’re delivered a well-balanced, textural contrast of fluffy creaminess against a crunchy biscuit base, punctuated with a tinge of zesty sweetness that never gets cloying. Helmed by Matthias Phua and chef Tomoharu Morita, Pantler also specialises in bread and pastries. For a sturdier, denser cake, the Opera (from $30/400g) is a sticky treat that may sit better with the ‘Death by Chocolate’ fan club. Cake orders should be placed three days in advance, with complimentary delivery in the CBD for orders over $100, or $25 for all other orders and locations. 

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  • Restaurants
  • Bakeries
  • Rochor

Locally owned bakery Edith Patisserie is known for its elaborate layered cakes. Its recipes are tailored to local palates so you can expect flavours like pandan and gula Melaka popping up in its cakes. Other crowd favourites include cookie dough speculoos, Earl Grey lavender and more. For the more health-conscious, it also offers healthier cake options for those with dietary requirements. 

  • Restaurants
  • Bakeries
  • Clementi

Specialising in stylish tier cakes, the baked goods from Cupplets are works of art. From a multi-tiered Peranakan tingkat container to a terrarium garden in the form of a cake, you might want to put off actually eating the cake just because it is just too pretty. The sponge cakes come in interesting flavours like elderflower strawberry, lychee rose, milk and cookie dough and more. Because the cakes are so elaborate and meticulously decorated, you have to place your order at least a month in advance.

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Vicky's
  • Restaurants
  • Bakeries
  • Bukit Timah

Here's a classic Singapore rivalry story: Lana or Vicky’s? When it comes to the traditional no-frills chocolate cake in Singapore, it always comes down to these two. It really is a matter of preference – Vicky’s chocolate fudge cake is rich in flavour and doesn’t skimp on the chocolate while Lana’s classic cake is a more well-balanced offering. Meh about chocolate? Vicky’s has other cakes as well.

Lana Cakes
  • Restaurants
  • Bakeries
  • Bukit Timah

To get your hands on the birthday cakes that partied with generations of Singaporeans, this 30-year-old cake shop requires a three-day advanced booking and then a trek (or taxi ride) into the Greenwood neighbourhood to pick up the goods. Inside, the shop still rocks a 70s outlook. Mrs Violet Kwan and her crew of industrious aunties pipe on well-wishes in old-school pastel buttercream, and box glossy slabs of her much-loved chocolate fudge cakes ($39/800g) with its fluffy sponge and rich, creamy chocolate frosting for pick up at the store.

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Laurent Bernard
  • Restaurants
  • French
  • Raffles Place

This award-winning French pâtisserie carries a spread of sweets for your picking, but it's best known for its rich, sinful cakes. Its black forest ($53/whole) is bursting with cherries and Kirsch – the fruit brandy that gives the cake its signature alcoholic kick, while its best-selling chocolate truffle ($53/whole) is a multi-layered confection of moist chocolate sponge infused with raspberry and dark chocolate mousse. To get a taste of its sweet treats, head down to its boutique for a selection of tarts, coffee, cakes and its made-to-order soufflés.

The Dark Gallery
  • Restaurants
  • Cafés
  • Orchard

The Dark Gallery is all about chocolate, and the brand works with prominent European names like Valrhona and Cacao Barry, as well as small bean-to-bar manufacturers for uniquely grown cacao beans that produce rich and smooth dark chocolate flavours. It's known for its ice-cream cakes (from $49), with choices that range from its signature dark chocolate to red velvet, butterscotch and cookies and cream. For those who prefer non-ice cream cakes (from $55), there are flavours like sea salt caramel and pinkberry, which is a photo-worthy butter cake with strawberry and raspberry frosting.  

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  • Restaurants
  • Bakeries
  • Ang Mo Kio

This neighbourhood bakery has made it big. Once a hidden gem, it's since been featured in multiple news outlets and best-of lists. While the joint is notable for its locally-inspired cakes like the pulut hitam ($29.50/whole), gula melaka attap chee ($29.50/whole) and Cat Mountain King durian ($53/whole), other flavours like the lychee martini ($33.50/whole), coffee whisky caramel ($46/whole) and Kyoho grapes & white chocolate ($46/whole) are also veritable stars. Almost all its cakes are available in individual slices, so if you're undecided, enjoy a slice or two at the shop itself before making your decision. 

  • Restaurants
  • Cafés
  • Bukit Timah

This halal café and cake shop was founded by Lynn herself in 2013, after years of baking whole and tiered cakes upon requests from friends and family. The café holds a rotating selection of flavours, from red velvet and salted caramel to kid favourites like rainbow cake and oreo cheesecake (slices start from $7). The café itself is a no-frills joint, with simple furnishings and a cosy atmosphere offering the standard fare of coffee and tea. On weekends, however, patrons can expect savoury dishes like pasta and toast. 

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Ugly Cake Shop
  • Restaurants
  • Bakeries
  • Kallang

This bakery started as a charity cake shop in 2014 to fund school meals in Timor-Leste before moving on to becoming a full-fledged café. Ugly Cake Shop prides itself on not using artificial flavours, colours, or other frills that tend to make cakes beautiful, hence the name. Bestsellers include Nutella and Valrhona cakes ($3.80/ cupcake, $50/whole cake), and the peanut butter and dark chocolate cake ($3.80/cupcake, $48/whole cake), which can be enjoyed with Illy coffee ($3.50-$7), all-natural Tea Voyage teas ($5) or hot chocolate ($6-$7). 

Bloomsbury Bakers
  • Restaurants
  • Kallang

If you’ve an inclination for bolder flavours in your cake, try Bloomsbury Bakers’ interpretation of orh nee (from $40/700g) – sandwiched between layers of vanilla sponge cake is a chunky yam filling with light coconut cream, gingko nuts and coconut flakes. And then there’s Lychee Martini (from $50/700g), with layers of lychee sponge and martini-soaked lychees sitting under fresh cream. If not, play it safe with options like the chocolate sea salt caramel cheesecake ($60/1kg) that’s finished with stacks of walnuts and dressed in yet more sea salt caramel sauce. Flavours are subject to availability, so place your orders three days ahead. The bakery also customises cakes, from ombre wreaths to ones with lashings of (edible) watercolour.

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Lady M
  • Restaurants
  • Orchard

A slice of the Big Apple makes its way to Singapore in the form of Lady M, an upscale dessert boutique hailing from New York’s posh Upper East Side. One to try is their signature mille crepe, a laboriously stacked cake of 20 handmade razor-thin crepes, layered with feather-light pastry cream, with coconut and green tea renditions – New York celebs like Issey Miyake and Martha Stewart are firm fans.  

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  • Kallang

With organic treats that are egg-, dairy-, sugar- and guilt-free, Delcie's Desserts stands out from the rest by offering 'sinlessly good' cakes and desserts. The online bakery – which has finally opened a brick-and-mortar shop along Upper Serangoon Road – offers a variety of birthday cakes, customised cakes, desserts in cups, tea cakes and finger sized cakes. Indulge in the delectable Chocolate Mud Fudge Cake ($40) or enjoy the savoury Banana Walnut Tea Cake ($38) without feeling the urge to count calories. Diabetic-friendly and gluten-free options are also available.

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You’d be hard-pressed to find customised cakes like the ones at Susucre – sugar flowers in every texture and form cascading from tiers, or a cake hidden within a supersized 3D bowl of laksa complete with all the fixings. The store also holds baking classes and customises dessert tables, but its specialty is cakes for weddings and birthdays. Choose from eight flavours such as mocha cappuccino and vanilla bean, and nine ganache-based fillings, including caramel cookie butter and hazelnut. Cakes are designed to withstand heat in outdoor venues, and only quality ingredients are used – that means real vanilla bean, handmade caramel and absolutely no preservatives. 

Once Upon a Table
  • Restaurants
  • Bedok

Co-founder Fides Chua, whose pastry skills were honed in Le Cordon Bleu Tokyo, joined hands with Thea Tan to set up Once Upon a Table over their love for everyday cakes. Central to their homely bakery are goods from the heart – celebration cakes, macarons, tarts and jellies, among others – for which French butter and Madagascan vanilla bean are used. Favourites include the chocolate chip loaf ($5.50/slice, $40/cake), a humble butter cake laced with Valrhona chocolate and finished with a velvety chocolate drizzle, and the Blueberry Surprise ($65/6-inch) made with fresh blueberries, vanilla buttercream and a layer of lemon curd concealed within. Orders should be placed three days ahead and custom orders two weeks in advance.

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All Things Delicious
  • Restaurants
  • Cafés
  • Rochor

No-frills bakes are the order of the day when you make a trip to this Halal bakery/café, which prides itself on taking no shortcuts. That means rolling dough by hand, peeling and chopping citrus zest, and using only pure cream and unsalted butter, not margarine or shortening. Among its bestsellers are the upside-down banana cake with caramel notes, and the sticky toffee pudding. Deglet noor dates lend the pudding its rich, dense texture – and when paired with warm sweet-salty toffee sauce, it’s the stuff of dreams. For whole cake orders, your 450 grams of sauce comes packed separately so you can warm it up when the time’s right.

Temptations Cakes
  • Restaurants
  • Geylang

Generations of Singaporeans have a soft spot for Temptations' Signature Chocolate Etoile (from $32/6-inch cake, $45/8-inch) – and rightly so. Chef-owner Jeffrey Galistan’s bestseller’s a light chocolate sponge dominated by mousse so fluffy it’s hard to stop at one bite. Its moreish secret lies in the technique used in whipping the mousse to a consistency not unlike ice cream. Topped with a gently sweetened ganache, this is an addiction we don’t want to kick. While the Chocolate Etoile is available most of the time, place orders three days in advance for other cakes.

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Butter Studio
  • Restaurants
  • Cafés
  • Rochor

At this Halal-certified bakery/café, the rustic cakes are whipped up using recipes tried and tested by owner Shannon Lua's grandmother. The bakers here are quick to hop onto the American Naked Cake trend, with their versions in flavours like salted caramel red velvet ($7.90/slice) and Isaphan ($7.90/slice). Add on ice-cream at $4 a scoop, or pair dessert with Dutch Colony-brewed coffees ($3.50-$6.50).

The Patissier
  • Restaurants
  • River Valley

If you’ve heard of The Patissier, it’s probably for the bakery’s passion fruit meringue (from $48.15/6-inch), a lightly sweetened meringue sponge cake layered with passion fruit mousse, fresh mangoes and strawberries. Its texture is compromised if kept overnight, though, so if you’re going to have leftovers, opt for the double chocolate praline (from $48.15/500g) instead – a rich praline mousse sits between layers of yet more chocolate mousse, with a sturdy crust to round it off. Orders should be placed four days in advance, with a delivery fee of $21.40.

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Cake Spade
  • Restaurants
  • Bakeries
  • Tanjong Pagar

Decked with retro, quirky interiors and a pink neon sign that screams, ‘I want it all’, Cake Spade makes all our Alice in Wonderland wishes come true. It's hard to resist when faced with a phalanx of cake slices from strawberry tofu cheesecakes to Speculoos cookie butter cheesecakes ($6.90/slice). The giant cake shakes ($16.90) will make you weak at the knees, too: think milkshakes stacked with wafers, cake bits, sprinkles and so much treacly stuff it’s amazing these mason jars don’t topple over.

Cat & The Fiddle
  • Restaurants
  • Cafés
  • Raffles Place

The go-to for cheesecake fiends, ex-Bakerzin founder Daniel Tay offers ten flavours of the versatile dessert ($29.90-$49.90) for delivery orders from his own webstore. Unique flavours include the no-bake Milo Dinosaur, salted caramel Sweet and Smokey Taffy and yuzu-lime-lemon Maneki Neko. Those who can't decide can opt for the Fickle Feline sampler of ten slices in different flavours. If you're catering to a party of of-age pals, definitely shoot for the alcohol-enriched cakes like the raspberry, lychee and martini-filled Emperor’s Romance, or Russian Whiskers with fresh mango chunks and vodka.

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