Not having children myself, I can only guess at the joy a parent feels standing outside a glass-walled hospital nursery, cooing at their newborn. Since I have to guess, I’m going to guess it’s comparable to the anticipation a sweets-craving bakery customer feels walking into Brentwood’s SusieCakes.
Instead of the open kitchen you’ll find at Leda’s and Yummy, SusieCakes bakery is directly adjacent to the retail space just behind a glass wall. Employees frost cakes and mix batters with the dedication of Santa’s elves and Harlem Globetrotters-like flair. It’s a bakery and a show, with some tasty results.
SusieCakes cupcakes are semi-filled, meaning that a square-shaped bite of cake has been removed from the center and topped with thick buttercream. Both the chocolate and vanilla were reminiscent of homemade cupcakes - if you’re grandmother made cupcakes with nothing but the highest quality butter available. Butter is definitely the theme ingredient at SusieCakes, and it makes for rich, delicious cake and frosting. The real star is the red velvet, also the bakery’s best seller. The cake is bright red and the fluffy cream cheese frosting is buttery-smooth with just the right amount of sugar. It’s neither too sweet nor too heavy with a light cream cheese flavor.
I also purchased a $30 6″ red velvet cake for my parents to enjoy over the weekend. I found the $3 personalization fee to be a bit extreme, especially since all they did was write “Happy Birthday Dad” and toss a few sprinkles around the edges, but a week later my parents are still talking about how delicious the cake was and are demanding another for my mother’s upcoming birthday.
$3 may be a lot for a few frosting words, but if it makes my parents coo at me like a newborn, it may be worth it.
SusieCakes
11708 San Vicente Blvd @ Barrington
310-442-CAKE (2253)
Mon-Sat 10a-7p
additional locations on their website
Photos by the dancing kids and koyochi via Flickr
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4 responses so far ↓
1 C-Squared // Feb 14, 2008 at 5:26 pm
WTF?!? you better have frozen some of that cake to save for me for when I allowed back into the country in May…and also realize that we will be celebrating my birthday all summer long, to make up for all of the missed cake/cupcake excursions.
2 Kendra // Feb 15, 2008 at 9:00 am
That cake looked propah!
3 Christianne // Feb 15, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Kendra - oh, it is exceedingly propah!
CC - the number of cupcake bakeries in LA never ends!!!
4 Lindsay // Feb 19, 2008 at 5:17 pm
The BEST red velvet in LA! Boom…..I’m going there!
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