An Illustrated Guide to Boston’s Great Cakes

In honor of Eater’s first-ever Sweets Week, Eater Boston illustrator Emily Phares has illustrated a collection of seven excellent cakes around Boston and Cambridge that you should definitely be eating:

• Atlantic Fish Co. in Back Bay, Boston: Red velvet cake with candied pecans ($8)
• Harvest in Harvard Square, Cambridge: Carrot cake with cream cheese mousse, pecans, candied carrots, cinnamon meringues, and maple ice cream ($11)
• Myers + Chang in the South End, Boston: Poppy seed angel food cake with fresh berries and passionfruit curd ($8)
• No.9 Park in Beacon Hill, Boston: Huckleberry cheesecake with raspberry and creamsicle ($16)
• Row 34 in Fort Point, Boston: Pumpkin streusel cake with roasted apple ($6)
• Russell House Tavern in Harvard Square, Cambridge: Funnel cakes with vanilla ice cream ($8)
• Waypoint in Harvard Square, Cambridge: Chocolate sourdough cake with blackberry preserves and white chocolate butter ($9)

View Phares’ cakes below, and also check out her other Boston dessert renditions — Get Your Vitamin D(essert): An Illustrated Guide to Al Fresco Treats and An Illustrated Guide to Boston’s Delicious Doughnuts.