No 2, Elibank Road, Colombo 05
Open until 05:30 PM
Sits has been our favourite cake baker for a while. Her chocolate and red velvet cupcakes are some of the best in town.
Sita has been making cakes for almost a decade, and her stuff is consistently great. She won the crown in our last cupcake taste-off (though we've discovered many more contenders since, which we've included in our round-up). Sits is reliable for any occasion, big or small (the minimum order for cupcakes is only 3, so you don't have to spend too much).
Sits has a long range of cakes and cupcakes, and there's an overwhelming number of options for lovers of chocolate. There's also a bit of cheesecake, meringue, coffee, lemon and passion fruit on the menu - also chocolate cookies and brownies. She also does eclairs, but the minimum order for those is 20.
We asked for the red velvet cupcakes and the chocolate ganache cupcakes, 5 cupcakes for about Rs. 700 altogether. Sits cupcakes are always very soft and they don't change over time - we had one the next day and it was still as soft and happiness inducing. The chocolate ganache cupcake is soft, chocolatey and good and for some reason tasted even better 24 hours later (in our experience cakes tend to get drier and the frosting hardens over time). It was the red velvet that we absolutely loved though: a bite of it includes this incredibly creamy and generous cream cheese topping, delightfully blending in with soft fluffy cake, the kind of dessert you'll keep going at till you feel unwell.
We also tried these interesting 'mini sticky date cakes', with butterscotch sauce. I'm not a big date fan but apparently it's great when you mix it the right way into a dessert (see also Saffron & Vanilla's date cookies, and Kan Zaman's date juice). These were lovely little donut-looking desserts, sticky and warm, bits of nuts and chunks of date in-between, with that mild sweetness of date cake, best served lightly-microwaved. The cup of thick butterscotch sauce is just great with everything, we even mixed it up with some chocolate cake later. A whole cake at Sits costs about Rs. 1 or 2K, while our three mini cakes with sauce cost about Rs. 500.
The Sits' take-away joint is in Colombo 5, and was described by Bhagya as a sort of 'candyland' - cakes everywhere you look. Sits can deliver you your order through a tuk-tuk guy, but she's very reluctant if it's a creamy dessert and a long distance, since the heat can ruin the cake. Usually you can call in the morning and have some ready by evening, which is rare with dessert makers (Candy Cakes also does quick desserts), but not everything is always available so it's best to call at least two days before.
The fun thing about Sits is you can actually make 'requests'. For example, their menu doesn't say anything about fudge-centered cupcakes, but if you call a few days in advance, they'll actually do it for you. You can check out their entire menu on their Facebook page.
Sits is a reliable pick for good desserts. It's my personal favourite when I have a random urge for cupcakes (the red velvet is the best if you have a sugar tooth and like cream cheese). You don't always have to order a dozen like at most bakers, so you spend about 500 bucks on five cupcakes and pick them up on the same day, which we think is pretty convenient.
The best cupcakes in town!
Sits has been our favourite cake baker for a while - she makes some of the best chocolate and red velvet cupcakes in town.
Sits Cakes and Desserts is one of the classics, and it's our favourite by far. Sita's cakes, puddings, cupcakes, etc. are all excellent and you can expect consistently high quality.
සිංහල සිට්ස් (Sits) හි කේක් හා අතුරුපස තමයි අපේ ප්රියතම ඒවා. එහි කේක්, පුඩිං, කප්කේක් ආදිය හැමවිටම හොඳ තත්වයේ ඇති බව සහතිකයි. සීතා ඕනෑම වර්ගයක කේක් වර්ග ඇණවුමට අනුව හදනවා.
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No 2, Elibank Road, Colombo 05
Directions
For pick-up, go down Baseline Road past Lanka Hospitals and past Park Road. The next junction is Vijaya Kumaratunga Mw, turn left there. Kalinga Mw is the second road on your left. Turn down that, then at the fork go to the left and park. Sits is just past the bend
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ruthinsir
You should review The Cake Factory (2 sisters bake from home) cakes. I recommend their Perfect Chocolate cake and Ribbon Cake.
Also, try the Green Cabin chocolate mousse- sublime.
Naveen
Tried her cakes. Nice box. Cake wasn't that great. In fact the box was the best thing about the cake,
sonali
I agree with ruthisir, cake factory is much much better. Sits is just some artificial hype created. Cakes really sucks. Ordered some cup cakes and they were so dry:-( I will never order from her again.
ice
Sits chocolate cake is delicious, but the lettering on the cake was horrible. The b'day wish looked liked it had been iced by a kid.
chamz
Well ordinary chocalate cake.nothing wow about it.had way better.
abeyJ
Sits chocolate cake is to die for!
Especially the icing!
SurovSki
I love the chocolate cake and the chocolate cup cakes. I also have developed a liking to her coffee cake which is served at Ginger - to die for!!!
Ashy
agree she has the best desserts in town BUT the best ribbon cake is from Perera & Sons (Make sure its the hard icing and not the buttery one)
Shey
TBH their cake were really good at the beginning! Loved them!!It actually was the best in town!Got my brother's engagement cake done from there and it was delicious and really nice!!Looked beautiful…We always used to get our cakes from there but now their quality has changed…It was quite disappointing cause the cakes have become really dry…I used to love that place but unfortunately their standards have come down…If they could just look into it,it would be great…Miss their soft and scrumptious cakes :(
Foodie
Have never had a better choc almond cake anywhere in the world !
Marha
sits cakes are awesome. Had chocolate ganache last week. Was so chocolatey n super moist. A must try for chocolate lovers
Marha
Awesome chocolate ganache cake. Best in Colombo :)
GreaseYaka
Your cakes are awesome and I was one of your ardent fans… But you really need to do something about your service and customer care. The person who answers the phone is extremely rude and will not hesitate to say that they can't do the order. Don't think that although we are fans that we don't have other options like The Cake Factory who is equally good with exceptional service. Really disappointed. If this had happened once, I could just let it go but this is the second time.
Acesticks
Cakes are rather normal.
Customer service is so poor, i get better service from a random road side shop.
Rate Weda
It is so hilarious that you expect Hilton Colombo quality from an average baker. People like you just want to show off in front of average people because of nothing else other than lack of self esteem.
KIKI
Loved the salty caramel, Nutella and chocolate ganache cupcakes.Their Chocolate cake is awesome. Preferred over the Cake Factory as the cakes are much softer and moist.