Whole Foods cakes seem to stand out among the cakes produced by grocery stores. While most grocery chains make the same few flavors and have thick, overly-sweet frosting — Whole Foods prides itself in making bakery-caliber cakes with unique flavors.
What’s more, these cakes don’t break the bank. Order a fancy 6-inch cake at a traditional bakery, and you’ll probably spend about $50. Whole Foods’ 6-inch cakes cost no more than $30.
If you’re looking for an affordable but delicious cake for any occasion, here is a list of the best Whole Foods cakes to try on your next grocery shopping trip.
Brown Butter Cookie Caramel Crunch Cake
This is a caramel and cookie lover’s dream. This cake includes layers of chocolate cake iced using brown butter cookie buttercream. Between each layer, there is also caramel and crushed brown butter cookies. The cake is garnished with rosettes of the brown butter cookie buttercream, a thin layer of caramel, and mini brown butter cookies. Nutty, chocolate-y, and rich — how could you not love this cake?
Mango Yuzu Chantilly Cake
This light and refreshing cake contains layers of vanilla sponge topped with mango chantilly frosting and yuzu curd. Chantilly frosting has an airy texture, as it is made from cream cheese, mascarpone, heavy cream, and sugar. This makes this cake ideal as a palate cleanser or spring picnic snack.
Berry Chantilly Cake
In theme with the chantilly, the Berry Chantilly Cake is probably one of Whole Foods’ most popular cake offerings. If mango and yuzu are a little too out there for you, try this one. Layers of vanilla cake are filled with vanilla and almond chantilly frosting dispersed with blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries.
Chocolate Eruption Cake
If decadence was a cake, it’d be this one. Whole Foods’ Chocolate Eruption Cake includes three layers of chocolate cake filled with chocolate mousse and chocolate buttercream. To garnish, there’s rosettes of chocolate ganache and dark chocolate shavings. Bruce Bogtrotter from “Matilda” would eat this cake up.
Cake Tiramisu
This is Whole Foods’ cake version of a beloved Italian dessert. Two layers of yellow cake are filled with tiramisu icing and mascarpone cheese. This naked cake is garnished with a light dusting of cocoa powder, dollops of tiramisu icing, and chocolate shavings. For a nontraditional take on tiramisu, this is the way to go.
Cookies & Cream Cake
This is for the Oreo people out there. Whole Foods’ Cookies & Cream Cake includes three layers of decadent chocolate cake, frosted with cookies & cream buttercream. It’s topped with a layer of chocolate ganache that drips down the sides, as well as buttercream pipings and Whole Foods’ 365 brand “Oreos.”
Strawberry Shortcake Cake
This cake takes inspiration from traditional strawberry shortcakes and puts it in cake form. Layers of vanilla cake are interspersed with vanilla icing and strawberries, and topped with whole strawberries. If you want to mix it up, buy the Chocolate Strawberry Shortcake Cake for chocolate sponge instead.