Rilling’s Bucks County Bakery

In connection with a social gathering at our home, we recently had a butter cookie taste test and Rilling’s tied for first place. The competition included also butter cookies from Feasterville Family Bakery, Leonardo’s, Desserts by Design, Swiss Haus Bakery. Chosen as for the test was the flower-​shaped butter cookie with the chocolate center, which all of the bakeries offer.
First place honors went to Rilling’s for its cookie’s relatively soft crumb and clear butter flavor. Our quibble was that the center dollop of chocolate was a bit sweet and hard, but overall it was a good cookie. The other first place winner was Feasterville, whose cookie is very delicate and nearly disintegrates on the tongue (like any great shortbread). On the downside, one has to carefully transport Feasterville’s cookies because they easily crumble in transit. Again, the chocolate center was a bit sweet and hard. Both Rilling’s and Feasterville could elevate these cookies to epic status by replacing the chocolate frosting with a bittersweet ganache.
Second place went to Swiss Haus Bakery, whose butter cookies are a perennial household favorite. The Swiss Haus version is much firmer than either than Rilling’s or Feasterville’s and it is less sweet. To its credit, the Swiss Haus cookie’s chocolate center is neither as sweet nor as hard as the first place bakeries’ versions. Swiss Haus’s cookies are sufficiently hearty to transport with little breakage.
Desserts by Design had a credible entry, which earned them third place. The cookie had a delicate crumb but lacked any butter flavor. Where these cookies failed was an unattractive milk-​chocolate-​looking center that was not a consistent color throughout and was irregularly shaped. It also was far too sweet and hard.
Much to our chagrin, Leonardo’s version ended up in fourth place. While Leonardo’s makes exquisite rustic breads and phenomenal cannoli, its butter cookies are just too hard and lack any butter flavor.

My fiancé and I were looking for a wedding cake and did a tasting at Rilling’s. All of the cakes we tried were delicious (especially the raspberry almond) and the staff couldn’t have been nicer.

Absolutely the best cake we ever had! We had the chocolate chip cake for my 50^th birthday party and people were coming up for seconds and it was gone!!! How many times have you had a cake where adults ask for seconds. Their cakes are moist and just spectacular in flavor!

Rillings made an amazing cake for my daughter’s 1^st Birthday! It was 3 tiers with Mickey Mouse on the top tier. It was decorated beautifully and tasted delicious! Their pound cake is just incredible! I would highly recommend their cakes for any party!

I used to live in the area and would go here all the time for birthday cakes and the not so occasional treat. When my wife and I got married, we made sure to get our wedding cake from Rilling’s (consisting of 3 types of pound cake: chocolate chip, almond, and plain). My favorites have always been the pound cake and petits fours — easily the best I’ve ever had. Everything else I’ve ever tried at Rilling’s has been good as well, so you really can’t go wrong. Now that I live in San Francisco, I always make sure to stop by whenever I’m back in town visiting family, and Rilling’s never disappoints.

Rilling’s cakes are the BEST in the area. ’nuff said.