From delicate vintage heart cakes with piped borders, to vintage birthday cakes studded with “disco cherries” dipped in edible glitter, these throwback vintage cakes are making a comeback with a sun-drenched Mediterranean twist. Read on and bookmark New June Bakery for your next special occasion.
Close-up shot of the cake with disco cherries.
Interior of New June micro-bakery and cake studio.
New June is a micro-bakery and cake studio in Philadelphia created by Noelle Blizzard, cake artist and owner. The bakery is known for beautiful, colorful, vintage cakes with seasonal ingredients and unique flavor combinations. Think Marie Antionette meets Vintage 1930’s piping, meets Wilton Cake décor. While New June isn’t a bakery that touts being inherently Mediterranean-inspired, Noelle does have Italian roots, and her menu features a variety of Mediterranean flavors.
Cake all decked out with a cute little cake candelabra.
Among them, you’ll see olive oil & sour cream cakes, olive oil & citrus cakes, and lemon-scented vanilla cakes (using real vanilla bean!), with additions of Mediterranean-rooted flavor-makers like pistachio, halva, tahini, mascarpone, espresso, and rose. For my friend’s birthday cake, we were torn between three flavor options that were all too perfect, how could we choose?! Descriptions taken straight from the New June website below!
Choice #1: Raspberry, Vanilla Chocolate Chip, Milk Chocolate Espresso
Layers of olive oil vanilla sour cream cake studded with dark chocolate, espresso infused Valrhona milk chocolate carmelina French buttercream and housemade raspberry cardamom jam.
Choice #2: Cardamom Pistachio Cream
Layers of vanilla, rose and cardamom spiced cake, brushed with cardamom milk syrup, layered with pistachio-butter buttercream and chopped pistachios, frosted with a silky vanilla & rose Swiss buttercream.
Choice #3: Cookies, Tahini & Graham
Alternating Layers of buttermilk chocolate devils food cake and olive oil sourcream chocolate chip cake, tahini caramel, cookies & mascarpone whipped cream, buttery graham crumble and salty vanilla beam Swiss buttercream.
Can you see our conundrum? I left it up to the birthday girl to make the final call and she chose Cake #1. It was delicious, unique, and to my happy surprise, not overly sweet. It was light, fresh, and flavorful. We went with the 6-inch cake and got roughly 7ish servings from it, using the square slice-cut technique.
Slice of the Raspberry, Vanilla Chocolate Chip, Milk Chocolate Espresso cake. Plate from Anthropologie.
Though you can order a custom cake and pick it up during certain weekday time slots, New June’s public retail hours are Friday 9a.m. to 3p.m. and Saturday 9a.m. to 1p.m. These are they days you can pop over to try their special rotating weekend items like an Earl Grey Bun with Earl Grey caramelized honey caramel, their Pistachio and Halva brown butter cookies, or the Cardamom & Orange Morning Buns. The items and flavors change often, so check their website and social media for updates.
Photo taken from the New June Instagram page.
While there are even more flavors at New June, I’m simply showcasing the more Mediterranean-ish ones on here, because…breaking biscotti! Check them out to see the creativity at play here. Oh, and they even have some gluten free options!
Photo by Michael Persico and taken directly from New June’s Instagram page.
