Let Them Eat Cake

Type of food

Cupcakes

Location

423 L Street, Suite B, between 4th and 5th streets

Next to L Street Furniture

Hours

Mon-Thurs 9:30-7, Fri 9:30-8, Sat 9-7, Sun closed

Phone

(530) 750 - CAKE

Website

http://www.letthemeatcake-davis.com

Established

August 31, 2009

Price range

Cupcakes $2.75 ea

Type of restaurant

Specialty Bakery

Payment Methods

Cash

Let Them Eat Cake! is a cupcake and specialty cake shop in Davis that is owned by a mother and her two daughters. At their grand opening they gave away free cupcakes and slices of a two-tiered cake they created just for that occasion (as an example of the specialty cakes they make). The bakery uses only the freshest ingredients (no preservatives!).

Let Them Eat Cake! has three daily flavors and a rotating weekly menu. Their menu includes two Vegan cupcakes (on Mondays and Fridays) but more vegan options and gluten free cupcakes are available through special order. For birthdays, parties, weddings and other special occasions, the bakery offers cupcake towers and tiered cakes. They also offer "Party-to-go" packages that let you create your own cupcakes! They provide the cupcakes, sprinkles and frosting (which can be colored upon request) and you can have the fun of decorating (and of course, eating) them! Their basic package ($5.50 per person) includes one cupcake per person while their Cupcake Lover's package ($7.50 per person) includes two cupcakes per person. They also offer gift certificates, so you can help your friends get their cupcake fix without having to guess their favorite flavors!

The shop serves Intelligentsia coffee. With countless award-winning coffees, Intelligentsia roasts its beans to order, ensuring the freshest cup of coffee you can get. Not only do they produce quality coffee, they also firmly believe in the benefits of direct trade. Geoff Watts, who travels the world to work directly with the company's producers, has worn out two passports with his travels. If you are a coffee lover, this is definitely for you! And, to really make sure that your experience with Intelligentsia is the best it can be, they serve it using a custom, state-of-the-art, and completely funky drip station and the best filter cones on the market.

Also, for those of you who would like a nice, quiet place to study, work, or just surf the net, Let Them Eat Cake! now has free Wifi for its customers.

Let Them Eat Cake! is a little tough to find (they are squeezed in the second suite of the building next to L Street Furniture), but their sidewalk sign leads the way to cupcake paradise!

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2009-09-02 08:45:59   Had some cupcakes from them yesterday. YUMMY! My favorite was the daily flavor ...Banana something.. sorry can't remember the cute name but it was a banana cake cupcake with rum infused frosting (very subtle so don't worry you'll get too boozy from the frosting). We tried all the flavors and they were great. Very good texture of the cake and frosting was perfect (not too sweet). They've done a great job renovating their space and it is kind of a fun location tucked away in what is soon to be the Davis Gourmet Ghetto (I am sure it will rival Berkeley's gourmet ghetto). The owners were friendly and energetic and you can tell they real care about what they do. Go check it out! —HeatherMartin

2009-09-08 20:57:24   I like how the their URL can read, "let the meat cake." Meat cakes, yum. Please fix your images on your website! I would like to see the meat cakes. —CoffeeSnobDavis

2009-09-10 16:40:31   Mmmm...the Dubliner...chocolate with guinness. Delicious! This place is adorable, and the two girls there were extremely sweet. Their workspace is pretty open behind the counter, so you can see the baking process while devouring your cupcake and sipping your coffee. GO!!! —AlyssaOlenberg

2009-09-10 20:56:07   Question: Do they deliver or will they send in mail? I have a cousin who might like to have a batch of the Dubliners. They sound fantastic! —jsbmeb

2009-09-12 11:50:50   We heard about this place by word of mouth. Took awhile to find it, the signs helped. Just stopped by last night, I had Scarlett (Red Velvet + cream cheese frosting) and my fiance had the Dubliner. Cupcakes were moist and baked to perfection. Not overly sweet and not piled with a ridiculous amount of frosting that usually plague cupcake places. Great place, I hope they do well. —JenAndWinston

2009-09-15 13:27:29   I think it is great that there is a bakery in town that features vegan cupcakes. I tried to buy one today on a whim and was told I needed to special order or show up on a Monday or Friday. I think that if the business is going to advertise that they offer something then they should make sure they have it available. I would suggest making at least one of your daily cupcakes vegan for customers just dropping by. I definitely went away disappointed but look forward to giving them a second chance. —CarenRoma

2009-09-19 16:15:38   Oh my god these are good cupcakes!!! And I don't even particularly like cupcakes! —lilhaf

2009-09-19 20:17:42   Yum! Their cupcakes are wonderful, so much better than what you get in the supermarket. Great, inventive flavors. —lemurific

2009-09-19 20:41:36   Any chance of importing cake recipes from overseas such as some variety of Kleckselkuchen (German)? Granted, it is no cupcake but the article did mention two-tiered cake. Sounds like a rather innovative store. —RyanMikulovsky

2009-09-20 09:48:08   My best friend and I tried this place the other day and it was fantastic! The owners were super nice and helpful, and the cupcakes were super yummy! I had the cookie dough and she had the apple...she is not a cupcake fan either, and thought it was really good. I hope that they do really well here, despite being off the beaten path...maybe we can convince them to move downtown? I would study there every day! (dangerous, but possibly good for some of the gyms in town...). Tell your friends and stop by!!! —UCDvetstudent

2009-09-27 12:28:05   I just discovered this place yesterday and was SO excited as I LOVE cupcakes. I have to say the cupcakes themselves are delicious but the frosting is mediocre. I had the Scarlet, the chocolate, and vanilla. Like I said, the cake part—very delicious—but they should create a new recipe for frosting...I plan on going back to try the vegan cupcakes. —lgrote

2009-09-28 14:46:54   These are seriously the best cupcakes in the Sac area...I've tried cupcakes from every cupcake bakery around. The flavors are inventive and taste just like they're supposed to, without being over the top. The cake is moist and crumbly, the frosting flavorful and not too sweet. I've had all 3 of the daily flavors but my favorites so far are the Amy Winehouse (chocolate orange), the dark chocolate peanut butter one (June's flavor of the month but the owner made a special batch and I lucked out), the banana split one, the Apple Hill (apple & spice) and the Cookie Monster (cookie dough inside the cake!). I loved the honey cake part of the Doodlebug but the lavender frosting was a bit much for me. I can't wait to try some of the other weekly flavors! I keep missing the S'mores one and the PB&J one. Gotta get in there and feed my cupcake addiction! —davispigeon

2009-09-28 15:53:12   Everyone else seems to love these cupcakes, so I went with high hopes expecting to love them. But I didn't like them much, and neither did any of the people I was with. We tried the vanilla, the banana (had some sort of jam in it?) and chocolate with Guinness in it. I wasn't impressed with the flavors, and they all seemed very sweet. (And I'm not the sort of person who generally thinks things are too sweet). In all honesty, I prefer your average bake sale cupcake or even the cupcakes at the Davis Creamery. Maybe we just didn't try the right flavors? I'm willing to give them another shot — if I like them better a second time, I'll come back and revise my comment. —CovertProfessor

2009-10-01 23:03:32   5 Stars!!!! I don't even really like cake, and I love this shop's cupcakes. The cake actually tastes as described (such as root beer) and the frostings are not too sweet. The Amy Winehouse (chocolate orange) is very good and the S'mores one because the chocolate cake was deep and dark. The June flavor of the month is a peanut butter/chocolate which is a MUST have. Request it and maybe she will add it to the weekly rotation.
All this place needs is an ATM/credit card machine and a cooler full of milk. —Lfein

2009-10-03 14:00:40   Ever since I had my first cupcake their a few days ago, I can't stop thinking about going back!! Their cupcakes are delightfully, and perfectly, sweet and creamy! Their location is a bit odd, and bad for foot traffic (as earlier mentioned, it's a bit "ghetto"). I'm hoping they look to do some remodeling or painting on the outside of their building as business picks up (which it will with cupcakes these good!). Will definitely go again, and I have already recommended it to all of my friends! —tuckerm

2009-10-07 23:06:08   I like this place and will continue to support it with my business. Part of that comes from my love of cupcakes, another part of it comes from my appreciation of what this bakery's about. I love the mother-daughters start-up cupcake bakery concept, and I admire the work and creativity that went into the place. However, I really think this place would survive better in a more central downtown location that would draw people in who were just walking by, instead of only attracting customers who know where they're going. That said, I wish them success and I can't wait til I've visited for every day of the week to try all the flavors! So far I've got three days down and three more to go! :) Sometimes they have cookies which are amazing too! —SRB

2009-10-13 11:17:09   I came here for the first time yesterday and was very impressed! As a vegan, I had to try their Vegan Chai cupcake and it was AMAZING. Moist, creamy, perfectly spicy and not overly sweet. My friends were very impressed with their non-vegan cupcakes too. I sincerely appreciate any effort at all to provide for different diets, no matter how disastrous the outcome, but Let Them Eat Cake actually makes REALLY GOOD vegan cupcakes. I hope they'll be able to create some more signage directing people toward the shop because it's a tough place to find! If they were located downtown, business would be booming already!! —ChrissyNoble

2009-10-14 15:04:40   I am vegan and also give 5 stars to the vegan chocolate cupcake. However, they either need to lower the price or make the cupcakes BIGGER... am I the only person that thinks $2.75 is an awful lot for a SMALL cupcake? I would love to frequent this store often but sadly cannot afford it except for the occasional treat. —Nancycat

2009-11-01 15:08:27   Awesome stuff, split a "Bannana is good" complete with jelly center and can honestly say it's the best cupcake I have ever The thing they need now is some kind of sign outside so everyone can find them, and maybe borrow some chairs from the place next door for outdoor seating —CraigFergus

2009-11-10 15:58:01   Best. Cupcakes. Ever. My friend and I had the Cheesey Monkey and the Acai Berry muffin. Will update and report on the Amy Winehouse cupcake this Friday...mm. —AlvinTsao

2009-11-15 13:14:52   I went there yesterday and location was a bit tricky. But upon finding them, I chose the Scarlett cupcake. It's essentially a Red Velvet cheesecake. First Impression: Looks yummy, Not too big but not small either. Lots of frosting. Smells...weird? It took me a while to pinpoint it but the cream cheese frosting actually smells like REAL cheese, not cream cheese. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing. It definitely doesn't smell like any other cream cheese frosting I've had. Now for the taste test: DELICIOUS! The cake portion and yes, the cream cheese frosting complemented each other very well. It was not overly, artificially sweet like other cupcakes. It was just right. I also tried the cake and the frosting separately. The cake itself was moist, the flavor was so good and not bright red (sometimes red velvet cakes have the appearance of a bloody bright red which is not appealing). The cake color itself was a dark burgundy red. Their cream cheese frosting was so soft, melts in your mouth and seriously not TOO sweet. (#1 reason why I don't like frosting)It was not dry or hard like you would see with other frostings. Personally, it was not too heavy a frosting but I wouldn't mind having it a lighter, whipped frosting.

I can't wait to try the other ones! I hope they are all as good as this one. —KimN.