Buttercream cakes - which bakery or store is best?

[Anonymous]

Not the whipped cream icing but the old school buttercream icing. Which stores or bakeries are the best?

[Anonymous]

I think Wegman's does cakes with buttercream. Their cakes are pretty good.

[Anonymous]

Costco

[Anonymous]

Le Caprice! Totally authentic. You can sometimes get whole cakes on the spot, but you usually have to pre-order.

It's on 14th Street, a few blocks north of the Columbia Heights metro and all that retail there.

[Anonymous]

Anyone had the cake from BJs?

[Anonymous]

If you are in VA, you really should go to Victoria's Cakery in Fairfax.

Costco is gross and that is not real buttercream. Have you read the ingredients?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are in VA, you really should go to Victoria's Cakery in Fairfax.

Costco is gross and that is not real buttercream. Have you read the ingredients?

Who cares what's in it, it's cake!!! I vote Costco.

[Anonymous]

Cakes Plus, Laurel. Its out of the way, but well worth the drive.

[Anonymous]

Costco cakes are yummy and insanely cheap. If you want an excellent bakery cake, Victorias Cakery in Fairfax is amazing.

[Anonymous]

Huge fan of buttercream here. Costco is the place to go.

[Anonymous]

It depends on what you like. If you think Costco is yummy, you'd like that. You'd probably also like the Heidelberg bakery in Arlington.

However, I find all of those too sweet. Costco is okay, but nothing to write home about. The quality of the cake itself is also meh. I grew up on not very sweet buttercream, thats not super fluffy (for me, I don't get why fluffy would be desirable) and the best layer cakes I find around here are from Whole Foods, or at least the recipes they make/bring in to Clarendon. I like rich cakes, but not very sweet.

I grew up in the NYC area. We had tons of bakeries, and the idea of a grocery store cake is odd. I will agree that Costco is not too bad, but the kind of stuff you get at Safeway, Giant, or Harris Teeter is yucky. I tend to put those cakes in the "not worth the calories" category.

[Anonymous]

Cakelove has real buttercream, made with actual butter, eggs, and sugar (not powdered sugar which I hate because it tastes like cornstarch). Their cakes taste like the homemade cakes my mom made for birthdays. I agree that Whole Foods is decent but sometimes the cakes are a bit stale.

But if you are used to powdered sugar/vegetable shortening "buttercream" from grocery stores and cheaper bakeries, then go to the Giant, Safeway, or Costco and you'll be just fine and you'll save a lot of money too.

[Anonymous]

Creative Cakes Silver Spring, they will deliver withing Metro area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cakelove has real buttercream, made with actual butter, eggs, and sugar (not powdered sugar which I hate because it tastes like cornstarch). Their cakes taste like the homemade cakes my mom made for birthdays. I agree that Whole Foods is decent but sometimes the cakes are a bit stale.

But if you are used to powdered sugar/vegetable shortening "buttercream" from grocery stores and cheaper bakeries, then go to the Giant, Safeway, or Costco and you'll be just fine and you'll save a lot of money too.

Giant and Safeway cakes are not buttercream.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cakelove has real buttercream, made with actual butter, eggs, and sugar (not powdered sugar which I hate because it tastes like cornstarch). Their cakes taste like the homemade cakes my mom made for birthdays. I agree that Whole Foods is decent but sometimes the cakes are a bit stale.

But if you are used to powdered sugar/vegetable shortening "buttercream" from grocery stores and cheaper bakeries, then go to the Giant, Safeway, or Costco and you'll be just fine and you'll save a lot of money too.

Giant and Safeway cakes are not buttercream.

I agree. That's why I put the word "buttercream" in quotes. I also don't consider any frosting that contains powdered sugar to be buttercream. It's nasty stuff.