The Cake Bake Shop

The fairytale continues at Gwendolyn Rogers’s second tribute to layered cakes and buttercream icing, a pristine Carmel expansion dripping with chandeliers. There are hints of the twinkly, cottage-like Broad Ripple original in the white-on-white-on-white decor, but Cake Bake 2.0 is polished to a brilliance, and the patisserie menu has expanded to include delicate fare, like the esteemed Chicken Velvet soup, a stacked club sandwich, and frites. But the mood is as frilly as ever, especially for diners who reserve a table on the breezy veranda that overlooks the fountains of Carmel City Center. Lunch and dinner daily.