While dessert may be bad for the waistline, it's soothing for the soul and satisfies a sweet tooth unlike anything else.
Honestly, there isn't much that giant slice of chocolate cake can't fix. Whether you like your chocolate cake served with ice cream, with fruit on top, in cupcake form, or as a three-tiered chocolate tower of goodness, there's a place in the Phoenix area to satisfy your cravings.
Here are five great bakeries in the Phoenix area to get chocolate cake:
Velvet Butter Cream
Velvet Butter Cream sells custom cakes, weddings/tiered cakes, and signature cakes that will knock your socks off. If you aren't in the market for a full sized cake, the bakery sells "signature mediums", which are medium versions of the very popular signature cakes.
(1100 E Osborn Rd, Phoenix)
Barb's Bakery
Barb's Bakery serves "mouthwatering layered cakes" that come with your choice of fruit or cream fillings and decadent buttercream icing. If you want to go all-out in the chocolate flavors, order a chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream, and chocolate fudge filling.
(2929 N. 24th St., Phoenix)
A Bakeshop
A Bakeshop offers the most delicious cakes that are "simply delicious works of art." Order a naked cake, a signature cake, or a cupcake and send yourself straight to chocolate Heaven.
(6007 N 16th St, Phoenix)
Sassy Cakes By Nina
Sassy Cakes By Nina has many options that are out of this world. For a chocolate cake paradise, choose from chocolate fudge, chocolate m&m, chocolate mint, or peanut butter & chocolate as your cake flavor and then top it with chocolate buttercream. Yum!
(5810 N 16th Street, Phoenix)
Purple Elephant Cakes
Purple Elephant Cakes makes decadent, delicious cakes with all-natural, local ingredients. You can order cupcakes, cake pops, and custom cakes to fulfill your every desire. I suggest the chocolate cake with a Nutella filling and topped with Swiss meringue buttercream.
(13331 W. Indians School Road #202, Litchfield Park)
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