Géraldine: Excellent Cakes in Old Longueuil

Sometimes it’s worth crossing the bridge to eat well. At Géraldine, in Longueuil, you’ll find cakes that rank among the best we’ve tasted, in any region. Behind the recipes is Amélie Lavoie, co-owner and creative heart of the shop, who has been baking cakes for nearly ten years and has made taste and texture her top priority.

The Taste of Grandma’s Desserts

Her goal: to bring back the cakes she ate as a child, the ones her grandmother ate before her. Most of the cake batters are inspired by La Cuisine raisonnée, the cookbook written by the Sisters of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame, reworked with today’s know-how. Everything is made with salted butter, as in the Québec kitchens of yesteryear, without cutting corners with vegetable shortening. At the counter, the comment customers make most often is that “it tastes like what my grandmother used to make.” The oatmeal cookie sums up the approach: a homemade, generously buttered version, like the one you used to buy in the high school cafeteria.

Jules, a Shoulder to Cry On

The star cake has a first name. Jules is an intense, deep chocolate cake, created to soothe a broken heart. Sold by the slice and ideally enjoyed in front of a movie, it has become the shop’s best seller. Its name is a nod to France, where “un Jules” means a boyfriend, and a wink to the pastry chef’s French partner.

The carrot cake is Géraldine’s other great source of pride, and it has earned its place in our selection of the best carrot cakes.

You can also order custom cakes, including superb celebration cakes that appear on our list of the best birthday cakes, along with several other pastries. The display case offers a nice variety of recipes, from cupcakes to cookies to scones, but Amélie only keeps on the menu the ones that earn her customers’ seal of approval. Those that don’t leave the display fast enough are quickly replaced and join what the team calls its recipe “graveyard.” To go with them, the counter also serves coffee and matcha.

Honouring Family Every Day

The name is a family affair. During a family meeting, one of her daughters suggested combining her grandparents’ first names, Gérald and Céline, so they would be with their mother every day. Amélie says that on opening day, seeing the name on the shirt of every team member was a very moving moment for her.

Géraldine is located in a small shopping centre whose owner, Rudy Kelendji, has become the pastry chef’s business partner. The shop has no dining room of its own: to eat on site, you sit in the mall’s common areas, shared with the other merchants.

For anyone who isn’t from the area, it’s well worth the drive, whether to mend a broken heart or to celebrate a special occasion.

Written by Jean-Philippe Tastet
Photography by Alison Slattery

Updated on October 11, 2026

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