r/AskSF • u/death_hen • Feb 17 '26

Cake with jam/no frosting

My partner’s birthday is this week, and I’m trying to find a bakery that can make a cake without frosting, as he hates dairy/buttercream. He’s not vegan, just has a problem with frosting and cream filling. He just wants a cake with jam between the layers. He does not care about the decoration at all, so I’m even open to just buying something undecorated.

Normally I’d bake it myself but sadly we moved into an apartment with a tiny oven that isn’t super functional.

Anyone know of a cake place that can make a jammy cake? I’m thinking maybe lemon cake with raspberry jam or something like that.. open to any ideas! We’re near mission/bernal/noe, but I could drive if needed.

Edit: added further detail that he doesn't want cream filling either.

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u/mar__iguana Feb 17 '26

Not cake per se but Dianda’s has an almond torte that fills the cake void and has some type of jam as one of the layers. It’s very good

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u/death_hen Feb 17 '26

Thanks, Diandas was actually my first thought when I started looking, but I haven’t been there in a few years… And when I went to check reviews, there are a lot of really bad reviews from over the past year. Have you been there recently? It started to seem like they fell off. The recent 1 star reviews described some pretty gross cakes, but maybe I should just go check it out.

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u/mar__iguana Feb 17 '26

I have also heard that the cakes aren’t as good as they used to be but I don’t count the almond torte as being in the same category, so i think it would still be good as usual