Savor (48) 3 oz. Crab Ball Appetizers, (24) 3 oz. Gluten-Free Crab House Cakes, (24) 4 oz. Premium Lump Crab Cakes with (12) Hotel Soft Shells {4"-4.5"}. The Ultimate Selection for Labor Day, a perfect cake for everyone's palate. Did we tell you this combo pack ships for FREE if your location receives Ground Shipping from our Baltimore Crab House! (On Sale until 9/30/25)
Each day our crew pick male & female blue crabs for our fresh cakes. Then we use the Maryland Style Cake Recipe to pack the cakes and promptly freeze them. Your order will ship in a custom seafood container with an exact amount of gel packs and dry ice to keep your cakes and hotels frozen. (Scroll down to learn how to prepare them.)
What makes a Maryland Crab Cake so special?
Chefs enjoy the ease in mixing the ingredients and baking or panfrying them, while diners savor a crab cake boldly nestled on a Kaiser roll or chophouse salad. Both agree, it’s all about fresh jumbo and lump meat. Pub-Style cakes showcase a combination of the two. Jumbo pieces pull from the back swimming legs and taste robust, delicately salty-sweet with a plump texture. They give an impressive appearance to the cake, especially with a golden-brown result. Helping to hold the cake together, lump meat picks from the crab’s center two halves, boasting a clean, sweet flavor and flaky texture. When handling the meat, chefs use ease to make sure the impressive jumbo and larger lump stay intact. Diners respond with “oohhs, and aahhs!” Yes, the desired result when serving a dinner with the Best of the Chesapeake Bay.
In the bustling kitchen at Crab Depot, the crew pack cakes with absolutely no filler. Maryland Style Cakes deserve this special treatment. Essential ingredients of eggs, yellow mustard, Old Bay, mayonnaise, and grounded pepper enhance the taste of the salty-sweet crab cake, but don’t overpower the meat’s robustness. With a peppery pop, Old Bay, brought to you from Baltimore, Maryland gives them a bit of spiciness with a combination of celery salt, paprika, and peppers. Fresh parsley flakes seal the deal for an aesthetic appearance that gets the mouthwatering!
Know that the cakes will taste extra sweet from caramelized meat, better known as golden browning. Crab Depot in Baltimore, Maryland suggests baking your cakes from frozen, the method shipped to your location. This ensures the cakes stay intact. Keep it simple. 1) Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F and then bake for 15 minutes. Peek through the oven window and you’ll see the golden browning. 2) Then quickly pan-sear in an oiled hot skill for one minute per side. Once done, press down with a spatula for the hockey puck result and promptly serve. You are golden! Ease, simplicity and amazing taste make Maryland Crab Cakes so special!
