Tucked away on Staten Island’s Jewett Avenue, Cakechef is a neighborhood bakery that handcrafts custom cakes, pastries, and other sweets for everyday treats and major celebrations. Serving Staten Island for decades, its decorators and bakers are especially known for turning wedding cakes and buttercream birthday cakes into centerpieces. The bakery also offers family-ready favorites such as cookies and cheesecakes.
Gourmet Bake ShopGourmet Bake Shop has been making breads, pastries, and cakes from scratch in New Hyde Park since the 1940s. The neighborhood bakery is especially known for custom cakes, including wedding designs and children’s cakes, while its daily case also features hand-baked treats made with carefully selected ingredients.NEW HYDE PARK, NY
Manhattan Sweets Boutique BakeryFor 20 years, Manhattan Sweets Boutique Bakery has served Islip and neighboring Long Island communities with traditional baked goods and custom celebration cakes. The full-service retail bakery keeps fresh cupcakes, brownies and ready-to-go cakes on hand, while its decorators offer consultations and tastings for personalized orders. Its baking centers on pure butter, fresh cream and real sugar.ISLIP, NY
E & L BakerySince June 1977, family-run E & L Bakery has been hand-baking cakes, Italian pastries, cookies and other daily treats in the Bronx. The bakery is especially known for turning celebrations into custom cake designs, from wedding centerpieces to colorful drip cakes, while continuing its nearly five-decade neighborhood baking tradition.BRONX, NY
Martha’s Country BakerySince 1969, Martha’s Country Bakery has baked cakes, pies, and other desserts for special occasions and everyday sweet cravings. With locations across Queens and Brooklyn, the bakery draws on recipes perfected over time and serves its treats in a warm, neighborhood coffeehouse setting. It describes its approach as bringing the family’s table to its customers, with classic specialties such as tres leches and layered cakes.BAYSIDE, NY