Pastry-grade · Gluten-free

The Modern Cake

Pastry-grade gluten-free baking, made beautifully simple. Develops in a Le Cordon Bleu kitchen. Bakes like it knows your oven.

Clean label
Dairy-free options
Chef-developed

The Lineup

A short, deliberately curated shelf.

Four foundation cakes, two seasonal rotations, and a small library of finishing mixes. Every flavor is engineered to bake as a classic — and in dairy-free form wherever possible.

Foundation · Year-round

The cake mixes

Vanilla Bean

Madagascar vanilla · Classic génoise crumb

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Deep Chocolate Fudge

70% single-origin cacao · Silky buttercream

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Matcha Vanilla

Ceremonial-grade Uji matcha · Gentle bitterness

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Ube Coconut

Filipino purple yam · Toasted coconut cream

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Limited Release

Seasonal offerings

On shelves now

Apple Cider Donut

Brown butter · Cinnamon-sugar crust

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Pumpkin Brown Sugar

Roasted Sugar Pie pumpkin · Crème fraîche finish

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Finishing Touches

Buttercreams, glazes & toppings

Vanilla Bean Buttercream Mix

Pipes clean at room temperature

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Brown Butter Streusel

For crumb cakes & celebration tops

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Honey-Gold Glaze

Sheen finish for bundts & loaf cakes

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Toasted Coconut Topping

Pairs with Ube, vanilla, chocolate

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How It Works

From a pastry kitchen to your kitchen — without compromise.

The shelf behaves like a shelf you’d find at a specialty grocer — small, vetted, built around a single craft principle: gluten-free should never mean the second-best cake in the room.

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    Developed in a pastry kitchen

    Every recipe starts at Olivia Hyatt's bench — tested against classic preparations, scored on crumb, lift, and flavor, then re-tested in dairy-free form before it earns a place on the shelf.

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    Engineered for your oven at home

    Predicted bake profiles, tuned leavening, and clear hot-or-cold-water calls — so the box performs the same way every time, on every oven, in any kitchen.

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    Gifting-ready, every season

    Cream-and-gold cartons stack beautifully and ship well. Each flavor is sized and finished so it can stand alone as a hostess gift or anchor a celebration cake.

Our Story

Pastry technique, translated for the home oven.

The Modern Cake was founded by pastry chef Olivia Hyatt, who trained at Le Cordon Bleu Paris and spent a decade behind the line in fine-dining bakeries before asking a simpler question: why does gluten-free still feel like the second-best cake in the room?

The line began as a single vanilla bean génoise, reworked forty-three times until it held its own against the classic. Today, every recipe is developed against the traditional preparation, then re-engineered in dairy-free or vegan form wherever the crumb lets it — clean-label, gifting-ready, and uncompromising on texture.

Press & PartnershipWilliams Sonoma · Food52 · Goldbelly · Anthropologie · Specialty grocers

Frequently Asked

Questions we hear at every market.

Retailers & Stockists

Bring The Modern Cake to your shelves.

We’re opening select specialty and DTC channels for the holiday season. If you curate a beautiful shelf — Williams Sonoma, Goldbelly, a neighborhood grocer — we’d love to talk.