Take the Cake

I was so hoping I found the bakery of my dreams! I didn’t… I got the chocolate, red velvet, and pecan cup cake. The red velvet had sweet cream icing, the chocolate strongly tasted like baking soda. The pecan cupcake, or cake tasted stale, especially the frosting. Even my daughter who is a cup cake feen said she did not like the cupcakes. I spent 10.58, and had to throw the chocolate cupcake away, couldn’t even feed it to my pup.

What an incredible cake! The lovely ladies at Take the Cake made my friends birthday a wonderful success. She absolutely adored her cake. It was beautiful made and as rich as can be! Thank you all again for a wonderful turnout!

I ordered a cake here for a colleague’s birthday party. The Chocolate Truffle cake.
My coworkers absolutely adored the cake, including the birthday girl! so I consider that a win :)
I also picked up a few treats while I was there, eclairs and a chocolate peanut butter cupcake.
All the baked goods in my car smelled intoxicating as I drove back home with them.
Only reason I didn’t go 5 star? location is a bit inconvenient for me. I swear, if they were closer to me I’d be having far more of those chocolate peanut butter cupcakes than I really need.

My second red velvet cake within a month! I love this bakery, in my opinion it’s the best bakery in Houston. The staff is so sweet… very professional, and knowledgeable. Take the cake makes beautiful custom cakes I received two! I promise their cakes are so delicious, I just want to make an excuse to order another, moist triple layer red velvet cake with cream cheese icing… its to die for! Hands down to best pastries in Houston!!!

There is not one visit to this bakery that doesn’t leave my tummy happy. I love the Italian cream, carrot, hummingbird and chocolate cakes! Awesome cakes for any occasion. They also have «grab and go» cakes as well. I always try something new and I’m never disappointed.

I ordered the hummingbird cake, coconut cream pie, and the Italian cream. All 3 were delicious, moist, and freshly made. My friends enjoyed them all as well. A bit of the drive for me, coming from the medical center. But it was worth it! Cute little place in a shopping center.

Really like their chocolate Italian Cake & Coconut cake. When I want just a slice I’ll run over to Empire Café and get it.

Great cake for my kiddos birthday! Chocolate truffle with ganache. Heavy cake but sooooo good!

Chocolate truffle is my family’s favorite. I’ve also tried the white chocolate raspberry and the hummingbird and those are also amazing. You really can’t go wrong with this bakery. Everything is fresh and so tasty. The frosting has that classic butter cream wedding cake stuff that requires a glass of milk! I can’t wait for my next family birthday party to order another.

Really good cakes and cupcakes! I buy cupcakes here for my real estate clients and they all love them. I love the décor too of the place, it is super cute.

We have gotten birthday cakes here for years. Always really good, moist and delicious. Service is great.
The chocolate chocolate cake is super rich — really good though.

Take the Cake far and away has some of the best tasting cakes and brownies I have ever tried, however, their customer service is lacking.
A colleague and I were looking for a bakery to supply cakes for our monthly birthday celebration for our office of 400+ employees, and wanted to speak to someone about it. I spoke with 2 people there, both stated they could not make a decision about special pricing, and would give my card to the owner, who would be in the following day, which would be a Tuesday, a week out from my event. I waited until Friday afternoon, and since I hadn’t heard from them, I called. No the owner wasn’t in, and no, she wouldn’t be in until Monday, guess she never got the message. Why would you not call someone interested in purchasing 3 – 4 full sheet cakes every month??? We will be taking our business somewhere else.

I have had some delicious cakes from TTC over the years, so I wanted to write about my most recent experience. My daughter and I visited and I purchased the White Chocolate Raspberry Cake for her birthday. It was outstanding! The cake was deliciously moist, the raspberry filling was refreshing and the butter crème frosting and white chocolate curls were exquisite! The service and price were excellent! The personalization was free! Our family has decided to get all of our birthday cakes from there from now on! You will love TTC! Make them your go-​to place for cakes! FYI, they do close at 4:30pm during the week!

I ordered my daughter’s first birthday cake from here. It was more beautiful than expected! The cake was flavorful and moist. I’ll be using them again next year for SURE! And the customer service was great.

My husband loves the Berry White cake from Empire Café, so when his birthday approached I thought getting this cake for him would be a nice surprise. The problem was, the cakes at Empire Café are far too big. We only had about 6 people at his birthday dinner. So I googled the supplier and found out that Take the Cake supplied Empire Café, as well as several other local restaurants, with their wonderful cakes.
So I went on Take the Cake’s website and did not see the Berry White cake. I called to see if they indeed make this cake and they said yes, however, the recipe for the Berry White cake belongs to Empire Café. So they told me to call and speak to the manager of Empire Café to get permission for Take the Cake to fill the order. I received permission no problem and placed the order with Take the Cake. It was quite a drive for me to pick it up, but it was worth it!
The cake was a hit! And the cake we had left over was still good days later. My dad started making a list in his head as to upcoming occasions that would require cake so we could make an excuse to keep ordering it.
The price was VERY reasonable and everyone I spoke to was very nice! I know where we are going from now on!

Just back to pick up 2 more birthday cakes and everything was as expected and they were delicious… one Chocolate and One Hummingbird. They’re pretty busy, I would recommend ordering a week ahead of time. Some might think they’re expensive, but I think the price is appropriate.
Only negative is the hours… they have some half days.

Yes, I Took the Cake. Two to be exact: Hummingbird & Chocolate Truffle.
Professionally made of quality ingredients, Take the Cake’s gourmet cakes are big, heavy and will impress anyone who eats them. I know that their cakes are wholesaled to a number of restaurants in town and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I’ve eaten plenty of their variations at Empire Café. A great endorsement for me.
I was lucky enough to pull off a last minute birthday request for a Hummingbird cake because it’s a cake that they keep in stock. (I didn’t even know what a Hummingbird cake was until my GF requested one). Thirty-​six dollars for a Eight Inch Round cake. Absolutely worth it.
And everyone at the Birthday party was impressed (and full).
My Tip for You: Plan ahead to get to their storefront in West Houston.
My Tip x2: Have a good knife ready to cut this impressive cake.

My all-​time favorite bakery. Whatever special occasion we have I order from here. My opinion is if a bakery can take a standard classic vanilla cake with buttercream frosting and make it amazing, then it’s a good bakery. And that is my favorite cake at Take the Cake. Unfortunately I’m the only one in the family who likes vanilla cake so I usually have to order chocolate or red velvet, but both of those are very good here too. Their cakes are very moist but not spongy, actually they are the opposite of spongy, it’s a very nice, fine texture. I think they use a high quality cake flour.
They also have a great selection of smaller deserts if you don’t want to commit to a whole cake. Cupcakes, small pies, tarts and these wonderful little things that I think they call cake truffles?- they’re like cake pops except bigger, about the size of half a baseball, and they are VERY indulgent.

I just placed an order for my daughter’s first birthday cake. I am very excited and will post a photo next month. The lady at the counter was very thorough with my requests. I hope the execution is what I’m expecting.
I have had a a couple of friends order cakes from there. My favorite is the White Chocolate Raspberry cake. The downside — they can’t really decorate it since the frosting is so light and made with whipping cream and has to be refrigerated the entire time (so it is harder to make this as a centerpiece for a party).
Another cake I’ve tried is the Hummingbird. This was for a baby shower and it was beautifully decorated. If you’re a fan of carrot cake, you should definitely try this. It is similar but with pineapple and banana. I picked this for one of the tiers of my daughter’s cake.
Lastly, their pecan bars are DELICIOUS. I’m not a pecan pie fan, but when my friend brought these over, I ate half a dozen of them. The texture, flavor… everything was perfect.
Between the flavors of the cakes and bars I have tried, this place deserves 5 stars. I am also happy to serve a real buttercream cake at my daughter’s birthday, since most cake places use the fake stuff that doesn’t have to be refrigerated (as in, all of the grocery store cakes and wedding cakes that sit out for a couple of days to be decorated).
The pricing also deserves 5 stars, as I’m not sure where you can get decorated tiered cakes for what they’re charging. It probably helps that they’re located further from town.
Look for an updated review soon!

After visiting TTC’s store front on 3 separate occasions and having a specialty cake made for my employer, I’m finally ready to give my view on what I’ve tried to date.
Honestly, I’ve yet to experience the wow factor these 5 star reviewers have. I’ve never had an issue with customer service. It did take me a while to actually try their cakes. The main reason is a lot of the cakes on display were either chocolate or contained coconut. I despise coconut in desserts and only like chocolate every blue moon… not a fan of bananas so their hummingbird big seller is definitely not for me.
I’ve tried the oreo cheesecake, lemon cheesecake, red velvet cupcake, and a specialty cake prepared for work which was a vanilla cake with raspberry filling. The cake was nothing spectacular to look at, I’ve seen better looking cakes on Unilocal!from them so that’s probably more the fault of the admin who ordered it vs. TTC. I wasn’t a fan of the filling though apparently it’s the most popular one? The texture of the cake was crumbly. He could barely slice it without it falling apart.
The cheesecakes were thick and rich but not the smoothest texture. I think they are OK, I like the oreo much better than the lemon. It was chock full of cookies.
I like the prices for the desserts, definitely not a budget buster. Just wished I liked them better…