The Caker makes luxury cake kits from whole ingredients.

The Caker is a business with one overarching goal - to spread the joy that cake brings by making great cake accessible to everyone. Alongside The Caker’s bakeries in Auckland New Zealand and Los Angeles and recipe books written by the brand’s figurehead chef Jordan Rondel, The Caker has a line of luxury cake mixes. These cake kits are unlike any other on the market with the unfaltering focus on the quality of the ingredients they contain and their avant-garde packaging, which makes them an amazing gift.

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Embarrassingly, I haven't made any of The Caker cakes myself, but I've gifted multiple and they're an absolute hit every time. I'm not an easy pleaser, the boxes are stunning. period!

So fun! The packaging is beautiful, the cakes taste home-made, and the recipes are easy. Loved this product!

I love everything about this brand! My mom sent me a couple boxes of the Flourless Dark Chocolate Gold Leaf for my birthday this year. The thought that went into this product is so special. It includes everything you need to make and beautifully decorate the cake (minus the eggs and butter). The branding is edgy and cool~ Jordan Randel > Betty Crocker

I didn't have the proper-sized cake pan so I had to improvise on baking time.... I would have liked to know what bakeware I needed at home prior to the cakes arriving. I have since purchased a properly sized cake pan. 

The Caker cakes are delectable, sophisticated, and so easy to make! This is not your average cake out of the box. I've baked 5 cakes (Coconut Raspberry Lime, Lemon Strawberry Poppy Seed, Banana Cinnamon, Espresso Dark Chocolate, & Graza Olive Oil Cake) and they have all turned out incredible. Guests give me much more credit than I deserve. 


My only slight criticism is the decorations didn’t do much for me. They were inedible so I just didn’t bother putting them on since then I’d just need to take them off. 

I tried the spiced pear cake from Martie and it was absolutely delicious. Probably the best cake I’ve ever made (even from scratch). It was very easy to follow. I made it for my mom’s birthday and she liked it so much that I plan to gift her more for Christmas. 

I was given a box to try out by the company and I absolutely loved the finished product. A high end boxed cake mix is more fun than you think, and the cake was soooo delicious.

It would be great to have weight/volume measurements for the ingredients.

*Sigh* I reeeally wanted to like this. I love everything about this brand's aesthetic, they're basically upending what we know to be a boxed cake aisle dominated by Duncan Hines and Betty Crocker.

I tried the Caker's spiced pear cake mix from Martie. The expiration date was marked as September 2022 when I bought it in December 2022, but apparently that was just a manufacturing error. Points to the Caker for minimizing waste and selling product that was still a-okay to use.

Here's where things went downhill. The spiced pear cake called for two pears, diced. There were no volume or weight measurements for this. Anyone who bakes knows that moisture content can make a huge difference in the final outcome of a baked good, and here I was without a single clue of how much pear to put in this cake. Type of pear can also make a difference! I threw two diced pears in between layers of cake mix per the instructions and immediately felt that it was too much. Regardless, I put it in the oven despite my concern for the welfare of my soon-to-be cake.

My hunch was correct, the cake refused to bake all the way through. I was left with a burnt-on-the-outside-and-raw-on-the-inside concoction.

I'd be willing to try it again, just because the other reviews are great and I believe the Caker truly strives to make a solid cake mix. But alas, this particular flavor was a bust for me.

I ordered a limited edition coconut raspberry cake kit as a gift last year - the packaging was gorgeous and the fully baked cake was DELISH. I would 100% order again as a gift or for myself.