If you’ve been scrolling TikTok at all over the last month, chances are a Dot Cake has appeared on your feed.
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The dessert is simple enough in concept: it’s a cake covered in frosting and dipped in nonpareil sprinkles (the round dots). The official Dotcakes comes from a bakery in New York. In addition to the now-famed style of the Dotcake cup, which start at $10, they also make 9 inch and 12 inch round cakes with intricate design options that start at $55.
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Because the bakery is only in New York, they do offer shipping across the country but stop during the warmer months. Many have begun DIYing their own Dot Cakes. Using either box mix or store bought cakes they grab a small cup or bowl and fill it with cake and a layer of frosting before dunking it into a bowl of sprinkles.
Susie Cakes in Southern California quickly jumped on the trend by selling DIY kits which include four of its vanilla cupcakes as well as a tub of vanilla buttercream frosting and rainbow “dot” nonpareil sprinkles for just under $30.
Elsewhere other bakeries across Southern California have added their own spin on Dot Cakes to their menus, with some coffee shops selling Dot Cake lattes and ice cream shops selling Dot Cake sundaes and ice cream cakes.
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Here are some of the bakeries in Southern California that are jumping on the Dot Cakes bandwagon:
Los Angeles County:
La La Land — Various locations
Note: in addition to “the sprinkle cake,” the cafe’s take on a Dot Cake, they are also selling a sprinkle latte, an iced beverage served with either espresso or ceremonial matcha.
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Broad Street Coffe Co. — Malibu
Note: Rather than a Dot Cake, the coffee shop (sister shop of Broad Street Oyster Co.), is selling a soft serve sundae topped dot sprinkles.
Baskin-Robbins — Burbank
Note: The ice cream shops spin on the trend is an ice cream cake.
Erin McKenna’s Bakery — Hollywood
Note: The bakery offers gluten-free options of the Dot Cake.
Ivory’s Bake Shop — Sawtelle
Orange County:
Hapa Bakery — Brea and Fullerton
Sugar Blossom Bake Shop — San Clemente
Salty Horse — Costa Mesa
Note: The coffee shop is doing their own version of the Dot Cake trend as a matcha latte for a limited time from June 3-5.
Inland Empire
Moi de Alebrijes Bakery — Rancho Cucamonga
Note: The bakery notes that the Dot Cake trend is similar to a staple on their menu, the Mexican pastry cortadillo.
XOL Coffee — Fontana
Note: The coffee shop is selling Dot Cakes in collaboration with Moi de Alebrijes Bakery.
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