Benkert’s Bakery

The best seven layer cake ever. Every time in go to visit anyone in my family, they ask for one or two.

I’ve had a few cakes and pastries from here, all were tasty and fresh. And they are not too pricey which is refreshing. The tricolor cake was surprisingly delicious. I am very particular about tricolor cookies in general, and they made it into a cake. It was so moist and rich. The deli side is underwhelming. I’ve only been there 3 times and 2 times it was for a breakfast sandwich and they had no bacon. The other time I got cole slaw for a party, and it looked and tasted old. The cabbage had started to yellow.

I have used Benkerts for every cake for my daughters birthdays for the past 6 and 1 year (s). They’re great. The cake that was made last year was amazing! All of my daughters friends and parents were talking about how good it looked and tasted for weeks!
I chose the spongebob cake they had in their cake album, and I modified it to my desire. ((note: I used spongebob figures we already owned for the characters on the cake)).
This cake really was incredibly delicious and very cool looking. I can’t say enough good things about Benkerts.

You simply can not beat their fondant.

I went here once and won’t go back. It wasn’t busy but the lady behind the counter was taking her time to help us. She was walking slow packaging the cake slow the whole process must have taken at least 15 minutes. When we finally got back and had our carrot cake it was horrible. It was dried out and the icing tasted like straight up cream cheese.

Terrible customer service. I have been to Benkert’s twice and never actually eaten anything they make. Both times I stood in ‘line’ (there was only a single customer who was already being waited on) while two or three people stood talking to each other behind the counter. When I asked for assistance they were busy. I left without buying anything.
It’s a shame since this place looks nice and the pastries are pretty (as I said I didn’t actually buy any) but the really crappy customer service dooms it for me. No way I go again.

It saddens me to say this but Benkerts Bakery has lost its edge at-​least in bread making I ordered their regular Pumpernickel Raisin Bread over a week ago. I noticed the bread had few raisins in it maybe 1 cup and mostly on the crust. My idea of Raisin Bread is raisins in every bite like supermarket. Do they realize Pumpernickel Bread expands being less dense so you need to add more raisins and throughout the bread. I called them and told them about it they offered another bread a week later so I thought maybe they ran out of raisins so I’ll give them another try, same results. I hope they read this and improve their name worthiness.
Check shelf life of products for freshness as well.

I really want to say how impressed I am with this bakery. I planned to get a cake last minute for my engagement party, and I decided I would go here because it was close to my house and because of a friend’s recommendation. At first I was nervous because i didn’t know how their cakes were and how they were as a bakery. I showed them a picture of how I wanted the cake and they said they might not be able to do one or two parts of the cake which i was okay with since I knew they werent a wedding bakery or specialized in that stuff. But wow, they ended up doing everything I asked for and really worked with my budget. The cake tasted amazing and everyone loved it. I definitely recommend it to everyone. I got a 2 tier chocolate cake with strawberry filling and butter cream on the outside.

Horrible customer service. The pastries were stale and tasteless. It was not, a pleasant experience going there. I will never ever, purchased any baked goods from them again…

I’ve been there several times over the years and was never overly impressed with their cakes. They tasted very average store-​bought at best. The shop rite down the road is an unusually good store bought bakery that’s better.

Local bakery with a huge selection of beautifully decorated cakes, cookies, pastries, and breads. I want to like this place, I really do. I bought cookies from here in the past and they were pretty standard buttery, chocolate dipped Italian cookies.
I stopped by a couple days ago and bought a cannoli cake and a premade cookie tray. The cookie tray was standard. I was a little disappointed that there weren’t any rainbow cookies in the tray. The cannoli cake was okay. I wish I had better words to describe it. It looked pretty but the taste just fell a bit short. I liked the fact that it wasn’t overwhelmingly sweet but there wasn’t much flavor in the cream filling or cake itself. The buttercream frosting was a good consistency, not too rich or sweet, but nothing tasted like a cannoli. I couldn’t actually tell what the filling was supposed to be except there was vanilla in it… maybe. I REALLY want to like this place but I can’t help wondering if I should have just saved some money and gotten a supermarket cake instead.
The service is not as friendly as I would imagine a bakery would be. I wasn’t greeted when I walked in. In fact, there was no one behind the counter when I walked in this time. I can’t even say if I remember a smile being exchanged after I completed my purchase but maybe I’m just expecting too much?
I’m not yet ready to write this place off. We need bakeries like this to stay in business. I just hope my next experience is better.

Nice bakery out by my cousin’s house. I’ve been going there for better than 30 years, usually when visiting. Yesterday I wanted to stop off before heading back to visit other friends in Westchester, so I picked up a pie and a mocha cake. Both were great and were well-​liked by the party crowd.
Last June my cousin bought a huge birthday sheet cake from them for her Dad’s birthday. He was in a nursing home, and the staff said it was the best cake they’d ever had. So, looks like the cakes are a hit.
All in all a pretty good, comprehensive bakery.

If there’s a heaven, it smells like Benkert’s Bakery. What we have here is a bakery, using the same old school equipment from what looks like 50 years ago. It’s an institution. When i was a kid, they used to have the pictures of what characters you could get drawn on your cake, hung above the counter like it was a Chinese food menu. I can still remember the pictures of Oscar the Grouch and other childhood characters. Good times. Those pictures are gone but the deserts are still really good, it’s not just for nostalgia. The Iced Napoleon is amazing. So many delicate layers, truly a highlight. They do a great business in birthday cakes and butter cookies as well. I love this place. I also found it to be fairly affordable, got a bunch of tarts and a black and white cookie for less than ten dollars. In New York that’s downright cheap.

Great bakery — super for cheese cakes, occasion cakes, bread etc.

We’ve gotten various pastries from here and have never been disappointed.
Apparently this is not the best place to order a cake, but for a quick fix of Iced Napoleon or Black and White cookies they are ⁴⁄₅ stars.
The Rainbow cookies were very over priced @ $ 4.49 for 4 small cookies and lackluster in taste.
Customer service can be iffy with the highschool aged kids working.

This is one bakery I miss, having moved from the area. They cleverly decorate cakes for the season, which are unique, irresistible and tasty. I had them custom make a Kahlua cake for my daughter (out of season), and a custom Godzilla cake for my son.
During the holiday season, especially Easter and Christmas, the line goes outside the building and you can barely get parking. The prices are appropriate for what you purchase. If it is slow, the staff can be friendly and helpful most of the time.

Nice pastries, but the staff here is quite lacking in the customer service dept. when we came, there were a bunch of young girls (probably high school age) working. They continued to chit chat and gab in corner while a small line was forming. Not very professional. Normally that type of stuff doesn’t annoy me, but when it is obvious that there are people needing help, you should probably help! Especially at a place where people want to get in and out. This is a recurrent theme at this place…

Seriously… This place blew my mind. Suprisingly have never been here before. I was having a dinner party for my birthday & decided to get a last minute cake here. Well… this was a hard decision! I went with the cannoli cake because it was the last one so it had to be good. I was right!!! Super moist, fresh & not too sweet! Great for $ 18.99! I cannot wait for another event to visit again! YAY BENKERT’S!!!

I’m extremely unhappy with this bakery. I had a wedding and the cake was included in the package. I went to the store for their «tasting» and spoke with someone on the phone regarding the new design idea for my cake. My original design had changed drastically in between the visit and the phone call. I had emailed my new design twice. She had confirmed the design on the phone. I was charged extra for the flowers.
My cake turned out NOTHING like I had wanted. It was like someone read the notes from the two designs and put them together in this horrifically ugly cake. The coloring was off. The flowers were way too big and clumsy and were not the right colors for the piping done on the cake. I very specifically mentioned that I only wanted 2 colors on the cake in the piping. But I got multi-​colored miscellaneous flowers that didn’t match the shades of color that were on the cake. The picture I sent had ALL WHITE FLOWERS and they were all the same type of flower! I count a hundred ways they could have designed a better cake.
The only saving grace was that the cake actually tasted more delicious than the tasting I had in the store. The tasting in the store had a loose, crumbly cake with processed sloppily put together fillings. The cake we received was firm & moist and had a much better tasting filling.
If this cake wasn’t included in the package, I would never have used this bakery. And I will never ever ever go back to this place. I have to live with the ugliest wedding cake I have seen in a looooong time in my wedding photos. I don’t even like to look at the pictures of us cutting the cake because all I can see is this hideous hideous cake.

Update time! Benkert’s Bakery is GREAT for CAKES!
I was invited to a dinner party and I’m definitely NOT the type to cook or help cook, so I did what I do best– bring dessert.
Benkert’s cakes are DELICIOUS and beautiful, not to mention they have an amazing selection– cheesecakes, pies, chocolate cakes, yellow cakes, red velvet cakes, you get the idea.
The 7-​Layer Cake I picked up was a real crowd pleaser and was only $ 13.95. For the next dinner party, I already know where I’m going and what I’m bringing!