Silk Cakes

Silk Cakes has the best carrot cake I’ve ever had and some of the most interesting cupcake flavors around. I wish to emphasize here my experience with cake and cupcakes: I eat them a lot. New York City has lots of boutique cupcake brands, but my favorite is Silk Cakes. I’d rate them ahead of Sprinkles and Two Little Red Hens in Manhattan, and considerably ahead of Georgetown Cupcakes (quite a statement, but I stand behind it!). I particularly like their butter-​cream cupcakes — their banana nutella cupcake and their green tea cupcake are my personal favorites.
I go on Saturdays with my girlfriend, and I can barely stop myself from eating our desserts on the way home. They also have excellent iced and hot coffee. Last week, they unraveled their ice cream cupcakes. My girlfriend and I split a lychee ice cream cupcake, which was smashingly delicious and refreshing.
All in all, it’s a great place to visit this summer if you want sweets and a cold brewed iced coffee.

I’ve walked by this place so many time before realizing it was a bakery! I tried their Sakura blossom cake with a friend a few weeks ago. The flavor and texture of the cake was amazing! The petals were made with fondant which I’ve never actually eaten before prior to buying this cake… It tasted sweet with a hint of a jasmine tasting flavoring. This mousse cake was perfectly fluffy and delectable — not too sweet with the perfect amount of cake-​mousse ratio imho. I will be back to try their other cupcakes!

I ordered a green tea, blueberry buttercream cake for my moms birthday and it tasted great and looked lovely! Finally a cake that is not overly sweet and has a balance of cake/​buttercream and filling. Everyone loved the cake. The flavors work perfectly together and I cannot wait to try the other flavors!

Delicious cupcakes and birthday cakes! Not too sweet like some other local bakeries. Truly unique flavor pairings. I ordered my son’s first birthday cake here, elegant and gorgeous design. We will have amazing pictures for ever! Thank you Silk Cakes!

Best Place for cakes in Fohi. order early they book up quick

Very nice cakes with reasonable price. The staff is great. The cakes and pastries are very fresh. I love the pumpkin roll I tried.

They did a custom cake for my dad’s birthday. They are easy to work with, detailed and the flavors were great. The cake was everything we expected and looked great.

I am definitely addicted to her cupcakes… are they the best i ever had? No… But their flavors are so unique you cant find anywhere else, most of her cupcakes have an asian twist such as thai tea, yuzu, black sesame etc to name a few. The frosting they use is very very rich with like a butter consistency, because of this they have to keep the cupcake refridgerated i think so you need to keep it out for 30 mins before eating it.
I like that her cupcakes are not too sweet or too greasy. My fav is the black sesame and the banana nutella. I plan to try the siracha one next time!
Update — finally tried the vietnamese coffee condensed milk bread, i didnt really taste any coffee but WOW, it is so good! It has condensed cream inside and the top is crunchy, i didnt eat it on the same day i bought it but it still tasted so good on the second day!

Pre-​ordered a vanilla cake with vanilla bran buttercream and several yuzu cupcakes with green tea buttercream and green tea cupcakes with blueberry buttercream for my newphew’s first birthday. I didn’t get to try the cupcakes but everyone said it was very good and kept asking where I got them from. The cake was good too– it’s more on the dense side, so a lot of my guests thought it was cheesecake. However, I didn’t like the frosting on the cake because it was also dense and didn’t have any fluffiness to it. Silk Cakes run their business in a professional manner and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend my peers here.

Finally — a creative and refined bakery in the Forest Hills area! I first tried Silk Cakes at a Unilocal event and knew there was something great. I love their infusion of asian flavors and I’ve come here many times on my way to Trader Joes around the corner.
My favorites are the cheescake (super delicate & a delicious almond crust) and milk breads (I believe they only have this on weekends — black sesame is the besttt). They usually have a seasonal dessert — definitely worth trying.
I’ve also ordered whole cakes here — the owner here is incredibly talented and makes really beautiful, polished and elegant designs. Can’t wait for an occasion to order a more elaborate cake here!
And last but not least… they have Stumptown Coffee!

The cupcakes here are absolutely amazing and so worth the price. I can’t describe how perfect the texture is, so moist and fluffy, as is the frosting, so creamy and honestly tastes fattening, but goes so flawlessly well with the cupcake.
You can’t go wrong with any flavor, they’re all delicious. I’m not a huge black sesame fan but they make their’s not only with the right amount of black sesame flavor, but also with some bits of chocolate mixed into it that’s just mind blowing. I tried Silk Cakes the first time a couple years ago when they had a Chinatown location, and now I’m glad I found them again here!

Wow. Just wow. I ordered a cake for my moms birthday here. I’ve always passed by this place on my way to trader joes that I knew I had to try it. I placed an order for their green tea cake with blueberry frosting. If you think that’s weird, it really isn’t. It was amazing! The green cake was moist and airy but packed punch in green tea flavor. The blueberry frosting was not overwhelming or too sweet and complimented the cake so well. I also got some cupcakes to go so we can try the other flavors. I’ve yet to try them but very much looking forward to it. Placing the cake was a breeze as well. The lady on the phone was accommodating and helped with my selections. Overall amazing service. Amazing pastries and cute and welcomed shop in the area. I will definitely be coming back again one of these weekends to try their milk bread and order any specialty cakes in the future.

I like this place, a lot… The cupcake trend is long over, but this is not a trendy style bakery. This is a more unique style bakery, which sells cupcakes and beyond. I’ve tried several of their cupcake offerings, Green Tea/​Blueberry, Red Velvet, Banana/​Nutella, Vanilla/​Vanilla, Thai Tea, and a few others… All of them very great. I’m honestly not a fan of banana cake or Nutella, but I tried it anyway, and it was one of the best. I think all of their cupcakes have, the small chocolate center. The chocolate center is as big as a Hershey’s Kiss, and it pairs well with the cake. I like most of the frosting. I do think, the green tea frosting, needs a stronger hint of green tea.
The serve Stumptown Coffee. It’s great to have quality coffee, with the cupcakes. Big plus. So far, the only have drip coffee. I think it would be a good idea to add an espresso /​cappuccino machine.
I will also add, that all of the employees and owner have been very welcoming and friendly.

Such a great place. Love the cupcakes and desserts. Not too sweet and great flavor combos with some Asian twists… ie green tea, chai, black sesame. The proprietors and workers are super sweet and great to work with. Nice neighborhood spot.

Asian-​inspired cupcakes on Metropolitan Avenue? Count on me to give it a try.
Came here on Valentine’s day to pick up a half dozen cupcakes ($ 3.50 each.)
Black Sesame Cake with PB buttercream (x2)
Green Tea w/​Blueberry buttercream
Banana Cake w/​Nutella buttercream
Thai Tea w/​Condense Milk buttercream
Yuzu Cake w/​Green Tea buttercream
The cupcakes here were not overly sweet, which is a blessing considering how sugary they usually are. I wasn’t a big fan of the blueberry buttercream w/​green tea combo. All of the other flavors were pretty good. I’d definitely recommend giving this place a try.

Overpriced. Cupcakes are kind of dry. It also would have been better to use cream cheese frosting than heavy cream frosting. Pandan chiffon cake also has a lot of pandan coloring, rather than real pandan

Silk is my new go-​to bakery in the neighborhood for baked goods. Though a small, nondescript place that’s somewhat off the beaten path and has only one large refrigerator to its name, Silk Cakes clearly knows what they’re doing when it comes to their breads and pastries. Come for the standard flavors like chocolate or red velvet with cream cheese frosting if you must, but they really shine when it comes their more unique cupcake flavors. Disenchanted with flavors I might be able to find anywhere else, I sprung for three such offerings — (1) the black sesame cake with peanut butter buttercream and semisweet chocolate truffle, (2) the yuzu cake with green tea buttercream and green tea truffle, and (3) the green tea cake with blueberry buttercream and semisweet chocolate truffle. As much as I would have wanted to try them myself, I bought them for a friend, who later called me just to enthuse, «Those were the BEST cupcakes I’ve ever had. I loved the frosting… and I don’t even like frosting.» She’s not the gushing type, and that she gave these such high praise certainly said something.
Since I was genuinely nervous that I might lack the proper self control to keep myself from eating her cupcakes, I decided to buy some milk breads as an edible buffer. The kind man at the counter recommended either the banana chiffon with black sesame or the newest flavor, the Thai cake with condensed milk cream. Like warm, fluffy popovers, these were preternaturally soft cakes, both with surprises in the middle. The first had pockets of sweet and nutty black sesame, with paired beautifully with the lightly sweetened banana bread. My husband seemed to prefer the latter, which was more like a lava cake with a warm, gooey center of condensed milk cream that threatened to flow out of the cake in decadent rivulets if not gobbled down strategically. Because this is a pastry meant to be savored, we ignored the mess on our hands as we slowly tore into it.
With both the cupcakes and the milk breads clocking in at the register at $ 3.50 each, Silk Cakes certainly isn’t the cheapest place around, but they’re incredibly friendly with some of the best pastries to boot. On display are also some of the most beautiful cakes I’ve ever seen, making me half wish I could get married again just so I could employ them for a wedding cake. I would certainly consider them for any special orders in the future and will most definitely return to try some of their other items.

We stumbled upon this vendor at the Smorgasburg in Queens and discovered this gem of a place. These are the most moistestestesttttt cupcakes we’ve ever had in our lives. We were about to take the sesame but neither of us are big fans of peanut butter. We were stuck for a minute between the Yuzu cupcake and and the green tea but we ended up going with the green tea.
Cost: $ 3.50 each for the reg sizes (they also have mini cupcakes available !)
The Thai tea flavor is subtle and the white chocolate truffle inside was a nice surprise. The green tea cupcake was bold in flavor with decadent chocolate truffles inside. The buttercream frosting on both cupcakes were sooooo silky, airy and smooth. The highlight is definitely the moist fluffiness of these cupcakes. Please go do yourself a favor and pick one of these up when you can. Your tastebuds will thank you later.
From our stomach to yours,
A&J

Silk Cakes is a fusion of East meets cake. It is a delightful little bakery tucked on Metropolitan Avenue and has been at this second location for one year and a half. The friendly baker will come out and help you with your order. If you get an individual cupcake, they put it into a one-​cupcake box. If you prefer to eat on the spot, there are four bar stools for you to sit, where you can fully and quickly enjoy every sweet bite. The first thing I noticed when tasting the cupcake is the buttercream frosting is definitely not American buttercream. I’m not sure which one it is, but definitely a method where the sugar is melted because it is silky, smooth, light and airy and not one bit grainy. So good is this buttercream that I want to squeeze the whole pastry bag and aim it into my mouth in a constant flow.
Bakery is extremely clean, they sell slices of cakes, milkbread which is only available on the weekends and gigantic sized cake pops. The milkbread has chiffon cake and preserves inside. The outside is bread. This one texturally is a little hard on the palate and may be an acquired taste for most. I would stick to the cakes and cupcakes. The flavors are also Asian inspired you will see flavors like black sesame, pandam, green tea, yuzu, sriracha and thai tea and then you’ll find peanut butter, red velvet, vanilla.
The nutella buttercream with banana cupcake was divine and a semi sweet chocolate truffle in the center was a nice surprise. Cupcakes are $ 3.50 each as well as milkbreads. Cake slices are $ 5.50.
You can also get coffee, iced coffee and hot tea here. You can also order a basic cake or have a custom cake made to order. There is also a gallery of the designs on their website and some have Asian influences and the celebration cakes are very whimsical.
It’s great to see cupcake/​cake bakeries happening in Queens.

Get the green tea cake, it’s delicious!!!
We had a last minute change of plans so had to improvise on a cake for 20+ people for the same night. I called a few bakeries and luckily Silk Cakes agreed to prepare a 12″ cake for me and have it ready in 4 hrs!
I love matcha green tea cake and I’ve tried it in many edible forms but this has got to be one of my favorite. Very strong matcha flavor and lightly sweet (a lil sweeter than most Asian bakeries but just right for me). Design was on the simpler side but for a 4 hour order, it was all we needed
When we went to pick up the cake, we also tried the Thai tea cupcake (flavor definitely not as strong) but with a good condensed milk frosting. I also had a milk bread with sesame filling and it was a bit heavy but very good if you like sesame
Bakery is small and there wasn’t much space to sit or hang, it’s more of a grab and go place…
I’d definitely go back for the green tea cake… thank you for helping us with the last minute request!!!