Balancing between homespun and haute, Buttercake offers classic layer cakes, elegant Bundts, festive cupcakes, scones, bars, and tarts (above) that you may just be able to convince your friends you made yourself. I wont tell.

How good could a cookie possibly be? Ask fans like Reese Witherspoon, Renee Zellweger, Courtney Cox Arquette and Steven Spielberg, all of whom are supposedly devotees of this Larchmont-adjacent bakery. That's a close-up of their peanut butter one above, btw.

With offerings like the “to die for” Lemon-Rosemary-Almond-Olive Oil cake, chocolate red wine cake (take that, Red Velvet!) bacon-maple and apricot-ginger scones and fresh cannoli, no wonder the East Side is buzzing about this Atwater Village spot. Breakfast and lunch look yummy too.

Looking for a special occasion cake? No place in town is better regarded than Rosebud, who will give you a personal consulatation to create your bespoke dessert in any flavor and design you can imagine (yes, that's a cake above).

For something really outlandish, bizarre, even rather explicit, you want to visit Cake & Art, which has so many celebrity endorsements… Britney Spears, Rhianna, Hayden Panettiere, Khloe Kardashian, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, and Mila Kunis (disclosure: I brought her there, above) just to name the very hottest. They also have some of the best cupcakes in town. Give Cody my regards.