Lords Bakery
“You can't miss it because there's a giant sign above reading PHOTO CAKES.”
“It's usually the coconut roll, current roll,pineapple birthday cake, black and white cookie and the red velvet loaf slices.”
“The chocolate pastry is buttery, flaky yet tender sheets of dough wrapped around a rich chocolate center.”
Lords Bakery
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Accepts Apple Pay: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range Moderate
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I wasnt too thrilled about the red velvet cake. It felt kind of dense and not airy but it was still soft and moist. I liked the pineapple buttercream cake better.
I ordered 3 slices; 2 red velvet and one slice of the pineapple buttercream. I was tempted to get the slice of german chocolate cake. By the way, this was to share with my family, it wasnt all for me ..lol..
Thw red velvet slice was $4.85 and the pineapple slice was $2.55.
They had other pastry assortments but I was too focused on the slices of cakes. Next time!
I realize that this bakery is very popular with a lot of people, so I have tried to give it a genuine shot before reviewing.
Their regular cakes with fruit fillings just don't do it for me. The red velvet is especially disappointing. It just tastes fake, if that makes sense. In all fairness, I don't like red velvet from many places. Sometimes their cakes are just downright dry.
There is usually a ridiculous amount of frosting and the frosting tastes like something is off. It's just too sweet and extra greasy.
This isn't a terrible bakery, but it's not something that I would make a special trip for.
I grew up just blocks away from this neighborhood institution and more than half the times I come back to visit the fam I stop by Lords. Yes, now everyone knows they have the best red velvet cake in the city, even beating out Southern restaurants/bakeries, but I don't think of Lords in that way.
Back in the day, way before Dough was the king of doughnuts/donuts, and when there wasn't a Dunkin' on every other block, Lords had the hands down best doughnuts in Brooklyn which used to sell at 60 cents each for many years, then up to $0.75. I won't go through the whole list, but my fave was the pineapple filled one. We often got birthday cakes from there too, and as my family is big on celebrating birthdays – with the cake as the centerpiece – that's a lot o' cake (we also went to Conrad's pretty often too). That said, for a few years there Lords kind of fell off on the quality, but with gained back the public's taste buds trust with first the photo cakes (so corny!) and the red velvet. They also started making Caribbean minded treats like current rolls and coconut rolls, which are okay.
I still like them best for three specific items: The almond danish (which sells out quickly), the strawberry shortcake (of which they also sell individual slices – so good!), and their breads. Their cheesecake and carrot cake are also top notch.
Best of all, Lords still has pretty unbeatable prices. Enjoy this go-to bakery again and again.
It's an exotic bakery, to me. The coconut custard pie looked god but the coconut pastry was way yummy. The current roll was good too. You can heat it up. I heard that this is an institution in this area. I think all neighborhood bakeries should be supported. It opened until midnight. So when you finish your casual but yummy dinner next door, stop by and get your dessert fixing in.
I walked in and there seemed to be an argument between an employee and a customer who felt slighted, because someone's else order was taken before hers. It eventually got resolved, but not a good impression to other customers waiting in line at all. Our office usually purchases birthday cakes here. This time around, we ordered the red velvet ice cream cake and a regular chocolate cake. The total cost of our purchase including a small box of birthday candles was about $35 which was reasonable. The red velvet ice cream cake was a HIT with everyone. The chocolate cake was disappointing, even for me as a chocoholic. It tasted dry like it wasn't fresh. The other half is stuck in the fridge. I doubt anyone will be going back for seconds, I certainly didn't.
Good, Cheap, Fast. The boo grew up on Lords cakes and this is our go to for birthday celebrations. I've never experienced any rodent issues (praying those were raisins in my rugeleach) and the cake is always moist and delicious. No complaints here, 7'' inch for $19?! Sign me up.
Umm this Isn't a particularly good bakery by any stretch in my opinion. The cakes have way too much icing. I prefer my cake with a side of icing, not vice versa. Cookies are okay. What is good about this place is that they are open very late and the staff seems local and friendly. People definitely come here at all hours. I kind of feel that the popularity of Lords, which is an institution of sorts, is really because this is one of the few options in the area.
I've never been inside the bakery itself, but my coworkers girlfriend brought into an amazing chocolate cake with vanilla frosting, it was a generous size for an office of 9 people. the cake was fresh, not too heavy, moist, with very sweet vanilla frosting, it definitely is perfect for those who have a huge sweet tooth. the way that they also wrote the words on the cake was very pretty, it was in nice script in a bright blue color, and even the way they tied the box was pretty! I cant wait to try more things here!