Celebrate with Brooklyn Nine-Nine-Themed Cakes: Sweet Treats Inspired by Your Favorite Detectives

Written by Jheelum Basu | November 3, 2023

Your work buddies and friends might not be as cool as Jake Peralta and Gina Linetti, but these desserts sure are. Bite into a Captain Holt-inspired dessert that is not as dry as his personality, or a sophisticated dessert that represents the too-organized Amy with a heart of gold. We’ve got some Brooklyn 99 themed desserts that suit the friendships and the characters in the web series. Pay homage to these characters who handle office stress like a pro by letting work consume them entirely. While we don’t recommend that, we do recommend unwinding with these desserts inspired by the beloved characters who worked in the 99th precinct.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine Themed Cake Ideas

Key Ingredients & Flavor Combinations

Carrot Cake

All-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, vegetable oil, granulated sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla extract

Freshly grated carrot, chopped pecans or walnuts, full-fat cream cheese

unsalted butter, vanilla extract, and powdered sugar

Pumpkin Spice Wedding Cake

Flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, ground ginger, ground cloves, unsalted butter, vegetable oil, granulated white sugar,

Light brown sugar, eggs, canned pure pumpkin puree, buttermilk, and vanilla extract

Rainbow Funfetti Cake

Flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, unsalted butter, granulated sugar, vegetable oil, eggs, buttermilk or whole milk, vanilla extract, and rainbow sprinkles.

Tiramisu

Ladyfingers, mascarpone cheese, eggs, granulated sugar, coffee, coffee liqueur, unsweetened cocoa powder, vanilla extract, and salt.

Chocolate Tart

All-purpose flour, unsalted butter, granulated sugar, salt, egg yolk, cold water, dark or bittersweet chocolate, heavy cream, unsalted butter, sea salt, vanilla extract

Yogurt Parfait

Greek yogurt, berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries), sliced bananas, apples, granola, nuts (almonds, walnuts), or seeds.

How to Decorate

To decorate Brooklyn 99-themed desserts, the most popular choices include incorporating the blue and yellow colors. To bring in the vibe, one may cover a cake with bright blue buttercream and layer it with gummy bears inside as well to represent’s Jake’s birthday cake. To make it more relevant, one may simply place edible toppings like a police badge or a mini NYPD cop car.

Tips & Tricks

For those perfect Brooklyn Nine Nine desserts, stick to the NYPD navy blue, crisp white, and caution-yellow color theme. Bake the base sponge cake and cover it with ganache or colored buttercream frosting.

To create the signature gender-reveal theme, one may simply hide some blue or pink candies or colored sponge inside the layers. To mimic the crime scenes, one may opt for edible caution tape around the base of the cake.

Character-Inspired Cake Details

Captain Raymond Holt’s Favorite Dessert: Carrot Cake

It’s just carrots for the stoic Captain, but that does not qualify as a dessert, does it? We went ahead and added a few ingredients to his favorite carrots in this Brooklyn Nine Nine dessert. By that we mean maida, some sugar, a little cinnamon, butter, an egg, and cream cheese on top. A carrot cake is fairly easy to make, sweet and moist, not so much like Holt’s dry personality that only his pet, Cheddar, seemed to be able to crack.

Charles Boyle’s Spicy Wedding Cake

The scene where Jake spits out a spicy cake, with the spicy habanero pepper frosting, is not why we suggest this cake. You can add any simple frosting to your cake, and you don’t need a reason to gorge on wedding cake when you can make one for yourself and feed your loved ones too. While we don’t recommend making Charles’s spicy cake that Jake silently suffered through to support his best friend, you can surely opt for a pumpkin spice cake with white frosting, perfect for autumn! It is delicious, and the white frosting will hide the surprise that your cake, in fact, is full of the Halloween spirit that the jokester and the much-debated King of the “Halloween heist”, Jake Peralta, would enjoy.

Gina Linetti's Rainbow Funfetti Cake

Gina is a firecracker delivering punchline after punchline effortlessly in the sitcom. Just like her colorful personality, a funfetti cake, with several rainbow layers, suits her the best! Gina loves making a good entry and stealing the limelight; nothing screams attention like this cake.

Layers of light and fluffy vanilla cake filled with sprinkles and frosting in every color make for an attractive treat. The outside is coated in more sprinkles for maximum "fun" that is Ms. Linetti’s middle name, and is perfect for the star who later turns into an Internet sensation because it is “Gina's job to be the human form of the 100 emoji”. This Instagram-worthy cake is a true party in your mouth and sure to bring smiles.

Amy Santiago's Tiramisu

Just like Amy Santiago’s love for color-coded and stringently organized binders, the tiramisu is perfect for her. This Brooklyn Nine-Nine dessert is artfully layered and gives a kick of caffeine, being a coffee-based dessert; its supple texture and cocoa dusting on top are a perfect blend of her softness and perfectionist attitude towards solving crimes and doing so in an orderly fashion.

Amy has a no-nonsense personality when it comes to her obsession with organizing, especially the organized binders, which makes the Tiramisu best suited to her character. There's coffee, there are chocolatey layers, and the base with the soaked lady fingers, which hints at the softness that Amy has, something that Jake truly appreciates.

Rosa Diaz’s Chocolate Tart

Emotionally constipated Rosa is a badass at her work and a wreck in her personal life, but despite her prickly interior, she's a big softie; a true hedgehog. A Brooklyn 99-themed dessert like a chocolate tart suits her the best, which captures Rosa's personality with the hardened chocolate cookie crust representing her tough exterior and soft chocolate mousse filling representing her inner self.

Decorate the chocolate tart with chocolate shavings or shards to look like broken pieces of Rosa's tough armor. A light dusting of sea salt instead of the chocolate shavings can be added to enhance the chocolate flavor of the tart.

Sergeant Terry Jeffords' Yogurt-Inspired Parfait

Somebody kept eating Terry's yogurts, and this time it can be you; after you make it yourself. Of course! Terry Crews, who plays Sergeant Jeffords in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, coincidentally loves yogurt so much so that writers wrote it into his scenes. His favorite? Of course the mango yogurt! Flavored yogurts are great by themselves, but what if we told you you can make a deliciously healthy layered dessert using plain dahi?

Make a parfait; add a layer of curd, preferably sweetened, then top it with chopped fruits, then add another layer of curd, and then top it off with granola. You can make this in a shot glass or smaller glasses. Revel in the layers of this simple, healthy dessert that Terry Jeffords wouldn't mind hogging.

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Celebrating With Brooklyn Nine-Nine

To turn your party into a Brooklyn 99-themed dessert party, a thematic cake can be the best option. Bake a cake with blue and yellow buttercream frosting, some edible toppings like BYPD cop cars, badges, and iconic show motifs like yellow crime scene tape, and more.