Los Angeles - July 11, 2007

To Cakedom Come

Lark Cake Shop

L.A. needs another bakery like its denizens need more holes in their heads.

Which is to say, as long as Tommy Lee keeps getting stuff pierced, new purveyors of cakes, cookies, and pies will keep cropping up.

So stop resisting and get down to Lark Cake Shop, the new baked goodery in Silver Lake. With polished concrete floors, mint walls, blond wood accents, and fluffy cupcakes behind the glass, they already fit right in.

Marrying a clean aesthetic with old-fashioned charm, they aim to bake and decorate the tastiest, prettiest cakes in the East. (Like Mom used to make — had she used all-natural ingredients and incorporated candy petals, icing flowers, and mini birdcages into her designs.)

If it’s not cleanly detailed red velvet, chocolate, or carrot layers you’re after, perhaps the piles of classic cookies like chocolate drop, oatmeal, and peanut butter are your speed. And to jolt, go for a La Mill coffee or tea.

Looks like Lark might be another hole in one.

Lark Cake Shop, 3337 West Sunset Boulevard, between Micheltorena Street and Hamilton Way, Silver Lake (323-667-2968).