The Best Cakes In Perth
Sometimes you just need a big slice of cake! From decadent slices to whole cakes, we’ve got every flavour and sweet tooth craving covered, with frosted cakes, vegan cakes, honey cakes, ice cream cakes and everything in between. Here are Perth’s best destinations for the tastiest cakes in town.
Last Crumb Cake Co
You’ll be eating every crumb of the incredible cakes that come out of Last Crumb Cake Co in Bassendean. We’re a little obsessed with their Everything Cake, which is a triple layered tower filled with caramel ganache, chocolate ganache, cookie dough and Oreos. Their popular and signature flavours include chocolate and salted caramel, lemon meringue, gin raspberry meringue and S’mores Biscoff. Try a slice or order the whole cake, they only need a minimum of seven days’ notice for a whole cake.
77 West Road, Bassendean
Mrs S Café
This Maylands cake mecca is known for delicious treats. Their signature cakes are their lemon curd cupcake, Humming Bird, Portuguese lemon loaf and orange almond cake, which is also gluten and dairy free. They only need three to four days in advance if you’re chasing a whole cake. You can also buy their whole slices; brownie, gluten-free lemon passion and coconut meringue and ricotta slice with berries and seasonal fruit.
178 Whatley Cres, Maylands
Pearth Organic Kitchen
Pearth’s cakes are constantly changing and are so delicious that you won’t realise they’re vegan-friendly. They have slices, cakes and treats available from the cabinet, as well as whole cakes available for ordering. Their cookies n’ cream cake is their most requested cheezecake (a vegan-friendly version of cheesecake) and available to order whole. Their choc-peanut and banana muffins are gluten-free, vegan and sweetened naturally and can be ordered or straight from the cabinet. Their choc mint and mousse cheesecake, mulberry and mango cheesecake and apple crumble cheezecakes are available by the slice. Too many choices!
106C Cambridge Street, Perth
Bitter Sweet Bake
This little patisserie may be small, but it pumps out a selection of sweet delicacies and cakes that are unforgettable. Treat yourself to a slice or celebrate an occasion with one of their beautifully decorated whole cakes. Their floral decorations are a work of art that you won’t want to destroy. Their Chocolate raspberry rose and coconut cakes walk out the door.
Shop 2/130 Wellington Street, Mosman Park
Wholefood Circus
Shenton Park’s popular café on Nicholson Road is known for home-made sweets. Their signature flavours? They’re famous for their Souffra (Greek custard cake), gluten-free flourless chocolate cake, gluten-free Sicilian apple cake, gluten-free carrot cake, gluten-free orange and almond cake, as well as their Frangipani plum or rhubarb cakes.
107 Nicholson Road, Shenton Park
The Honey Cake
Not everyone is into chocolate cake, which is why The Honey Cake is a popular alternative. Aside from the slabs, slices and croghies, they also make whole cakes. The original honeycake is layers of caramel cream and honey dough with walnuts and honey flavoured crumbs. You can order their original flavour, the honeycake cheesecake or panndan coconut flavour. Pick it up from their store at the State Buildings, or have delivered to your front door.
St Georges Tce and Barrack Street, Perth
Roho Bure
Who wouldn’t love a giant cookie ice cream sandwich cake? Roho’s vegan ice cream cakes are dairy free, gluten-free and sugar free. Plus, you can customise your decorations to give it that ‘wow’ factor. Their most popular cakes include cashew cream honeycomb, hazelnut chocolate, charcoal chocolate orange and slated peanut and quinoa brittle. They also now sell Heartbreaker cakes; ice cream in a heart chocolate shell.
226 Carr Place Leederville
Pizzaca
The slices of cake at this Scarborough cafe and pizzeria are huge. Pizzaca are always mixing up the cakes in their cabinet and testing out new recipes, but their signature flavours are chocolate mud cake, peanut butter and caramel cheesecake, rocky road cheesecake and cookie cheesecake. They also make a range of sponge cakes, fruity cakes, gluten free options, and the list goes on and on.
161 Gildercliffe St, Scarborough
Ox Rabbit
When you don’t have time to pick-up a cake, the guys at Ox Rabbit can deliver it to your front door. They’re currently delivering their mini signature cakes, which can be ordered as singles or as bundles. There’s deluxe chocolate mud, white chocolate, red velvet, cookies and cream and caramel. The hardest part is not ordering some of their brownies as well.
Delivery only www.oxrabbit.com.au
Sherbet Café & Bake Shop
Carrot cake, Sicilian apple cake, lemon and coconut layer cake and vanilla raspberry layered cake are just a few flavours to get your mouth watering. This sweet little Maylands café bake all their cakes on site and are worth a visit.
206B Whatley Cres, Maylands
Sugar & Nice
The counter is always full of treats to try, but it’s the cakes you can’t go past. Owner, Marnee Rinaldi, also specialises in custom buttercream cakes that are made to order and she even makes doggy cakes for your special pooch. That’s right, why should we have all the fun? Grab yourself and your fur child a cake at the same time.
Shop 1, 882 Beaufort Street, Inglewood
Article by Clare Ryan
Cover photo via The Honey Cake