MarieBelleis best known for their chocolate collection and variety of drinking chocolates, but the next time you step into their Broome Street flagship, walk all the way to the back of the boutique and straight into the Tea Salon. There you'll find all sorts of non-chocolate wonders include this Carrot Cake ($6). Whether you get your tea to stay or to go, there's no way to turn down this cake. It's moist and dense with rough grated carrots and a handful of crushed walnuts. The cinnamon notes come through boldly and the whipped cream cheese frosting has a tangy finish. On a hot day, this is best paired with their Banana Smoothie, a balanced, icy concoction with a whole banana blended straight into the smoothie. Utterly refreshing. More

Kin Shop offers the lightest coconut cake in town. It goes by the name Coconut Cream Cake, and $9 buys you an enormous slab that goes down dangerously easy. More

Sometimes all you want is a chocolate cake. No fondants and fillers, just simple. And for that you should head to Little Oven in Long Island City, where from time to time, Chocolate Cake ($3.75) appears on the menu. More

With a texturally light crumb, each slice is studded with coarsely grated carrots and rough chopped walnuts. Spelt flour serves as the base, and the batter is lightly sweetened with maple syrup. More

At Buvette, the Carrot Cake Spoon Bread ($4) is both on the brunch menu and served throughout the day every day of the week. More

Smith & Wollensky has unexpectedly become my go-to spot for dessert in Midtown East. First I discovered that insanely lush and fluffy Coconut Cake, and today we're back for their "famous" Carrot Cake. More

Ginger Spice Cake ($2.50) in the morning and Hazelnut Cake ($2.50) in the afternoon is how I like my visits to Duane Park Patisserie. More

[Photo: Kathy YL Chan] We're starting off the week with a fine example of plain and simple Chocolate Cake ($6) done very well. The fact that it comes from the aptly named Chocolate Room in Brooklyn should be no... More

[Photo: Kathy YL Chan] You might not be able to get Christina Tosi's cake by the slice at Momofuku Milk Bar anymore—but the cake truffles are even better. Sold in for $3 per three-pack, they're essentially bite-sized rounds of... More

Noted baking author Rose Levy Beranbaum was recently charged a $25 "forkage" fee for couple slices of cake she brought into a New York City restaurant. While it was "outside food," Beranbaum had brought the cake from a cake-related video shoot she had just done and wanted to share it with her pastry chef friends. (Heck, she even offered the pastry chef and the server a piece.) While it's common for restaurants to charge a "cake fee" to customers bringing their own dessert, here it seems a little steep. We want to know what you would do. More