Packanack Bakery

The BEST crumb cake anywhere! The German chocolate cake, although not traditional is amazing. Plus the counter people are super friendly. Love this place!

Custom ordered a 10 in cake for my mom’s 89^th birthday. It is absolutely one of the best cakes I have tasted. The guests all said the cake was moist and flavorful. The girl that took my order over the phone was very helpful. I wanted a cake that is light like the lemon chiffon cake that they have. So the girl suggested using that as the cake and used strawberry mousse as the filling and whipped cream. Well, the cake was beautifully decorated and the taste was fantastic. Thank you Pankanack Bakery for making my mom’s birthday party special. I should also mentioned I have been going to this bakery for years and almost everything I tried is very good.

Went to this place because it was recommended. Could not be more disappointed. We ordered a sheet cake for a 3^rd birthday party. Yellow cake with strawberry and custard filling with Elmo design.
Cake was way expensive which would be fine if it was amazing but it most definitely was not. Cake was dry to the point that it was crumbly. Elmo looked more like an Elmo/​Grover love child and they used whipped cream icing when we specifically asked (and paid for) butter cream. On price, design, and quality they were 0 for 3

Okay, this place is the best, but they ALWAYS run out of lemon poppy muffins. Always always always. What is the deal??? Why are they always out of them??? Every other muffin flavor has loads left if you show up in the afternoon, but there are ZERO lemon poppy. You would think they would make more.
Other than that, just about everything I’ve ever had here was good. The chocolate pudding cake is king.

It is very easy to drive by this little bakery. It is on the northbound side of Route 23 in the Packanack Lake Shopping Center. All their baked goods I have tried are very good. And their coffee cakes are THE BEST.

Love the crumb cake. Best I’ve had and pretty decent price. My thighs thank you! Also great doughnuts

This is simply the best bakery in the world… or at least Northern NJ.
I always go here to bring a dessert to work or to a family event, or just to bring home!
The crumbcake. The doughnuts. The bread. The cookies. It’s ALL AMAZING.

Best crumb cake in NJ! Their best batches of crumb cake are from the sheets of crumb cake they bake fresh daily. Their smaller sized square sheets (9×9?) do not taste nearly the same for some reason. Neither do the edge pieces of their large sheets. What you want to see when you get there is ½ inch or less of actual cake and the rest actual buttery soft and partially gooey crumb. The good stuff is usually found by going for one of the middle pieces.
They do sell out of certain items if you do not go early enough.
While this review is focused on one of their many items baked daily, you will also find good quality doughnuts, bread, and cakes there as well.
If you prefer the dried out style of crumb-​cake with a three-​week shelf life, go elsewhere.

Holy Cannoli!
Im sitting at work watching the clock 4 hours until I get to go home. In walks in my manager with once again a random treat for his team. He walks past my cubicle with a white box and immediately like a swarm of locus my co-​workers are in hot pursuit for their fix. MY first time having a cannoli, but I really have nothing to compare it to. The texture is amazing, unlike another review posted my cannoli was filled all the way through. The texture reminds me of cream cheese. or maybe cheesecake. Its borderline orgasmic. I harassed my boss for the details of where the bakery is and I immediately bookmarked on Unilocal!I plan to visit them on Friday just to get one of these famous crumb cakes everyone is raving for on here. My boss even said a guy in line behind him butted into their conversation of how awesome this bakery is by saying, «Your friend here is right I only eat their donuts, I drive almost two hours and a half once a week faithfully to get these donuts!»
In my head im thinking this guy must be nuts, but then again when you find something great you hold on to it. So no judgements… Friday hurry up!!!1

With just moving to the area, I needed to find a go-​to quick breakfast stop on the way to work and this is the perfect place. The croissants are amazing– a little crispy on the outside and super soft on the inside with the perfect amount of flake.
They also have these English raisin biscuits that are awesome too!
Coffee is decent, but with the prices, it’s hard to refuse.
I love this little place :)

Good: the cake was excellent. moist with tasty frosting. appropriately priced. we had bought a couple of cupcakes before placing an order and they were unquestionably too dry. the cake we ordered tasted much, much better.
Less so: we had ordered a lamb cake (see picture #6). as one of our guests commented, «it looks like they spent a good long while perfecting the shape of the body of the lamb, and spent 3 seconds putting the eyes on and making the head.
Secondary upside: hard not to laugh at a lamb that looks like it spent some time in a mental hospital.

Oh Packanack Bakery, all the hipster donut shops in manhattan can’t hold a candle to your blueberry cruller. yum!

I have been to Packanack several times and I can tell you that nothing brings a smile to my client’s face faster than their delicious baked treats.
A customer recommended the bakery as a staff favorite and I now make a point to stop there whenever I’m in the area. The office said the blueberry crumb cake is outstanding and the blueberry cranberry mandarin cake got big thumbs up!
Everyone at the bakery is always super friendly and helpful and the prices are definitely budget-​friendly. Treats from Packanack are the closest thing to homemade and a huge step up from mass-​produced desserts. It’s so nice that still have local places like this. We definitely have to make a point to support them, so they can stick around for a long time!
Also, for business folks, they accept business cards, which is a big plus in my book.

Since I’ve moved here from Maine it’s been hard to find a decent donut. Well I was pleasantly surprised by this bakery. Their donuts are great. Muffins always hit the spot. Of course the crumb cake is great.

I am an avid baker and I liked what I saw when I stopped in. Not your typical standard bakery with commercial buttercream cakes. Everything looked homemade and unique. Clearly this place excels at various kinds of crumb cake. The chocolate crumb cake was outstanding. Next visit I will definitely try the awesome looking donuts, especially the cannoli filled ones!

The crumb cake is amazing!!! Melt in your mouth!
Also the brownies are great. Really chewy and perfect.
Yum!!!
Prices great :)

Bought the cherry crumb cake last night just before the store closed. There is only a quarter of it left-​my Mom and I devoured it. Was so good! The crumb topping is wonderful. Have bought other items, but nothing compares to this crumb cake or the basic crumb buns.

Don’t rate this place on its appearance — it’s all about the chocolate pudding crumb cake, the crumb cake, and various donuts. (You will never eat another Dunkin Donut once you try a Packanack Bakery donut.)
Arrive early on weekends for the best selection. The bakery also has great ¼, ½ & whole sheet cakes made to order.
Friendly, helpful service & good prices.

This bakery is okay– although their crumb and pudding cakes are DELICIOUS. I gave such a bad review because repeatedly I have tried their canolis and they are NOT filled all the way through. I do not want to munch on a canoli that is mostly shell. Also today I picked up two red velvet cookies from there and they are hard and taste burnt.
On the other hand their crumb cakes are amazing and are sold at a great price.

Something inside of me screams like a prepubescent boy whenever Tuesdays roll around at my office — because it’s Donut Day; the original D-​day.
My coworker is viewed as the champion of the morning — the corrector of Monday wrongs. As he walks into the kitchen with his bakery boxes in hand, there are always at least 6 – 7 people silently waiting; like vultures investigating a kill. Don’t be fooled — I’m the mother lioness amongst the pack licking my chops.
The coffee cake is unlike anything you can ever explain — kind of like why the sky is blue. It’s the only bakery coffee cake I’ve eaten where you get more crumb than cake! AMEN YOU BAKERY GODS! AMEN!
The Boston creams will actually have you re-​consider how much Boston fans suck, and the plain glazed donuts are sweet and savory; every inch of that sucker is in glittering sugar.
I one day hope to be a champion of the morning… but until then, be your own champion!