Cake Menu: 2025

Our latest menu for 2025 is a curated collection of our all-time BEST SELLERS, after almost 15 years in business and thousands of custom cakes made.

You are welcome to mix & match from the combos below. For example, pair chocolate cake with whipped mascarpone custard. Or, add strawberry balsamic jam to our “Fancy Vanilla” cake for extra oomph. And so on!

FANCY VANILLA

Vanilla Sour Cream Cake + French Vanilla Buttercream (+ optional raspberry compote)

STRAWBERRY CREAM

Vanilla Buttermilk Cake + Strawberry Balsamic Jam + Strawberry Mousseline

SEATTLE FOG

Earl Grey Tea Cake + Bergamot Cream Cheese + Caramel Sauce

CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY

Chocolate Sour Cream Cake + Raspberry Mousseline + Raspberry Compote

LEMON BLACKBERRY

Lemon Cake + Lemon Syrup + Juicy Blackberry Mousseline

TRIPLE CHOCOLATE

Chocolate Sour Cream Cake + Chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream + Cacao Nibs

CARROT APRICOT

Carrot Cake (no nuts, no raisins) + Brown Sugar Cream Cheese + Apricot Compote

TIRAMISU

Vanilla Sour Cream Cake + Espresso Soak + Whipped Mascarpone Custard + a Dusting of Cocoa

DIETARY RESTRICTIONS?

WE ARE DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT ALL OF THE FLAVORS ON OUR CURRENT MENU ARE AVAILABLE AS A VEGAN* OR GLUTEN-FREE** VERSION!

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* 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 there’s something you had in mind, 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 chocolate cake from the “Chocolate Raspberry” combo, paired with the brown sugar cream cheese from our “Carrot Apricot” combo instead. Or the blackberry mousseline from “Lemon Blackberry” paired with vanilla sour cream cake instead of lemon 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); powdered loose-leaf Earl Grey tea (for Earl Grey cake); organic grated carrots, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg (for carrot cake); lemon zest and lemon extract (for lemon 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); lemon zest and lemon extract (for lemon cake); vanilla bean paste and powdered loose-leaf Earl Grey tea (for Earl Grey 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), molasses and citric acid (for brown sugar cream cheese), espresso powder (for coffee soak), brandy extract and butter flavoring (for whipped mascarpone custard), raspberry puree (for raspberry buttercream and compote), strawberries and balsamic vingear reduction (for strawberry-balsamic jam), bergamot extract (for bergamot cream cheese), blackberries and citric acid (for blackberry mousseline).