Empire Cake

This place is a fantastic dessert spot! 🍰 Empire Cake in Chelsea 🗽 serves and incredible selection of delicious 🤤 cupcakes 🧁 and cakes! 🎂 Definitely try the Vanilla Snowball ⚪ and get the Red 🔴 Velvet Cupcake or Cake - it's probably the best I ever had! 😍 Staff 👨‍🍳 is friendly and welcoming and service is quick! ⏲️ They have some indoor seating.🪑 I wish I knew about this earlier!

I've tried red velvet and carrot cakes from as many bakeries as I can find across the globe. I ordered Empire's red velvet cupcake, carrot cupcake, chocolate chip cookie, and butter toffee cookie. The carrot cake has all the right spices and ingredients. It tastes delicious. The butter toffee cookie was good too. The red velvet and chocolate chip weren't to my liking. They sell snack cakes, and a bunch of other treats. The service was welcoming. The store is clean, cool, and comfortable with a couple of tables and high chairs.

Visited the location on 8th Avenue in Manhattan and it’s quite inviting and has a few details that are great conversation over cake and coffee concept…but let’s get into the details: I ordered a red velvet cake and coffee with cream and no sugar. The flavor of the cake was delicious (although they didn’t make it truly southern with the addition of walnuts) The cake appearance has a hard outer white chocolate coating (possibly to preserve the moisture of the cake longer in the fridge) and when cut appears to be an injection of frosting inside the cake. The flavor of the cake was delicious, maybe 4 out of 10 to compare with say, Sylvia’s, but the hard outer white chocolate disrespects the culture of the red velvet cake—cream cheese frosting is a must, it’s required, every pastry chef and baker knows it, it’s the law. Next is the presentation—absolutely horrible. The chocolate was unevenly distributed and in the thin spaces of chocolate there was dry cake, unpleasant to eat. Also there’s the weird injection of buttercream filling that when forked destroys the experience of eating red velvet cake. Picture it for a moment, hard chocolate icing, crumbling through semi tough cake and butter cream that when you eat it the chocolate is crunchy, the cake is chewy, and you have this buttercream when combined in the mouth leaves the customer thinking—what the heck is that? I would not recommend the red velvet cake until the recipe and presentation changes to something like a layered cake with a clean floating center (not injection) and an outer cream cheese frosting (and loose the cheap cake sprinkles and perhaps use edible leaf garnish. The coffee was nicely balanced when eaten to cleanse the cake taste from the your tongues however, on its own, the coffee is NOT purchasing at all. The experience was not up to my expectation Empire who has a reputation for making good cakes. With the price of your products you can’t afford to cut corners in production, presentation, or service.

I am so happy to choose Empire Cake to make my dad's 70th birthday cake. It looked amazing, and everyone at my dad's birthday party was impressed. Also, their customer service is excellent. I highly recommend them. ​P/s: I added the cake topper separately.

Empire Cake has always been one of my absolute favorite dessert spots in all of NYC. I used to work nearby 4 years ago when my team ordered the red velvet snack cake and I was fell in love IMMEDIATELY! Coming back years later to find out they have still maintained their amazing quality was such a relief. They have so many amazing options to pick from, and a very knowledgeable staff that will help you navigate through your indecision (shoutout to Sydney for her patience and recommendations)!

Empire Cake was a delicious addition to our wedding day! We went with Raspberry Lemon- it was so yummy, and we kept the design beautifully simplistic so it would be the perfect backdrop to add fresh flowers from our florist. The Empire team so helpful and communicative throughout the planning process. Shout out to Bonnie, who was our main point of contact. Highly recommend Empire for any of your cake needs!

Such a lovely shop. I got the raspberry lemon cupcake and got a oatmeal cookie for later. Both were absolutely delicious! I will be making sure I stop in again before I leave the city. Cute shop with enough seating inside to enjoy your dessert.

I've been going to Empire Cake for many years for birthday cakes and all sort of cookies and this store never disappoints me ever!. It's the best bakery store in NYC with the most amazing cakes, cookies and the customer service!. Yesterday morning, in a hurry, I had to drop by to buy a bday cake for my beloved boss and luckily I was able to get my favorite Raspberry/ Lemon Birthday cake 6" size which was available in the store. I asked - just in case (because typically the cake needed to be ordered in 48 hours in advance with personalization) - if they could write "happy birthday Alex" on top of the cake. To my surprise the cake department accommodated my requested right away! They are just amazing!. Also the black/ white cookies at Empire Cake IS THE BEST!!! Can't wait to have more!