🎂 Best cake in Australia

14 cities ranked by the strength of their best cake. Follow any city through to its full ranked list.

● Updated September 2026

The verdict: on the numbers, Canberra has Australia’s strongest cake — led by Canberra Cake Place (4.6★ across 222 Google reviews).

#	City	Its best cake	Rating	Reviews
1	Canberra	Canberra Cake Place Belconnen	4.6★	222
2	Adelaide	Heidelberg Cakes Stepney	4.6★	131
3	Melbourne	Le Petit Gateau CBD	4.7★	726
4	Sydney	Flour and Stone Woolloomooloo	4.6★	1,347
5	Gold Coast	Karma Cupcakes Southport	4.9★	227
6	Perth	Cake Date Morley	4.9★	152
7	Brisbane	Le Bon Choix Brisbane City	4.3★	705
8	Hobart	Imago Cafe & Bakery CBD	4.8★	389
9	Cairns	Gelocchio Cairns City	4.8★	1,024
10	Geelong	Rainbow Cakes Geelong Moolap	5★	227
11	Newcastle	A la Roch Cakes & Sweets Belmont North	5★	178
12	Sunshine Coast	The Pastry Lab Caloundra	4.8★	459
13	Darwin	PETRA'S Raw Cakes Jingili	5★	126
14	Wollongong	Royal Bakery CBD	4.7★	259

How this national table is built: it is not a separate opinion. Each city contributes the venue that currently tops its own cake ranking, and the cities are then ordered by that venue’s score — review strength above a 3.8 baseline weighted by review volume, plus community mentions where we hold them. Cities are only listed where we actually rank the dish, so an absent city means no ranking yet, not a bad one. Rebuilt weekly.

City by city: Canberra · Adelaide · Melbourne · Sydney · Gold Coast · Perth · Brisbane · Hobart · Cairns · Geelong · Newcastle · Sunshine Coast · Darwin · Wollongong.