Simon Lee Bakery

LITERALLY THE MOST DELICIOUS CAKE TO EVER HIT YOUR MOUTH! We had Judy make the cakes for our wedding and we couldn’t be more happy! We had raspberry lemon, piña colada, raspberry whipcream, and tres leche… and they were all amazing (but you must try to tres leche… seriously)! Most wedding cakes are decent in taste, but these were beyond «decent», our guests are still asking me where we got our cake. it was that good! I cant rave enough about how awesome it was to work with Judy, she was the sweetest lady ever! On top of the taste of the cakes, they looked beautiful as well! I was so impressed with Judy and the quality of her cakes! Seriously go do a tasting, your stomach will thank you!

We just had our cake tasting at Simon Lee and I couldn’t have been more disappointed!
We sat there for 12 minutes before they brought out the pieces of cake to start the tasting. When I asked for water Art seemed hesitant to bring us any. I would have thought that it was a normal request when tasting cake.
After we finally got the cake and went through the flavors it was downhill. He did ask us all the normal questions, but then he was so hung up on the other places we have tried and how the compare. He wanted to know who else we’ve tried. Then he straight up asked «How did their cake compare to ours». It was so extremely uncomfortable! And then to top it off he flat out asked «so what pricing did they give you?» Which only made it more awkward. He followed up by asking what other places we are going to. Then when he found out we live in Pflugerville he jokingly chided us for not shopping local. I understand that while he is drawing out the cake he has to find something to talk about but that was completely inappropriate.
It was such a terrible experience I would never recommend Simon Lee to anyone. We spent more time talking about our other tasting than we did what we wanted from Simon Lee.

After having a disappointing encounter with another bakery I was led to Simon Lee and I couldn’t be happier! They went above and beyond any expectations I had upon the first meeting. I brought my 4 year old daughter with me to the wedding cake tasting and not only did they bring out the cake samples for us to try but also a personal cake complete with a pink tiara (every princess’ dream!) for her. While all of the cake samples they brought out were delicious there was something particular I had in mind for my dream cake. Art could sense that there was something I was missing and immediately, without hesitation, when I told him what I was looking for he went to the back and had them put together a personalized sample of EXACTLY what I was wanting! Their cake is super light and fluffy, but moist and utterly AMAZING! I wouldn’t want any other bakery for my dream day!

My husband and I went here to discuss purchasing a wedding cake, but the service was SO terrible. The worker hardly gained any information at all about what we wanted, before pulling out an arbitrary figure (outrageous price) to run us off. It really seemed like they just wanted us to leave, even though we were serious about buying a cake. What a shame, I was hoping to have a better experience here.

Always been a fan of this bakery for their fruit cake. It is a white cake (2 layers) with fresh strawberries and buttercream filling, and almond slivers on the outside. You can ask for other berries on top, which I did on this last order, and they didn’t charge extra. Sorry did not have any cake left for pictures, it was gone really fast.
Current prices are $ 80 for an 8in, $ 110 for 10in. Yes, that is very steep considering the berry chantilly cake from whole foods is half the price and almost comparable to the taste. It used to be around $ 40-​$ 50 for the 8in. It is so good though, moist and not overly sweet, the cake and the buttercream. I have to say that the cake is probably catered to Asian taste buds because we don’t like super sweet desserts. Keep that in mind, it is not that sweet. That’s how I can eat the buttercream with the cake. I normally scrape off any buttercream on other cakes.
I’ve had the opportunity to try a wedding cake by Simon Lee at a friend’s wedding (piña colada flavor). It didn’t disappoint either, not too sweet and moist. I did not scrape off the buttercream :)

We met some girls from Simon Lee bakery at a venue’s open house. They were very sweet and the cake was delicious. My fiancé and I decided to make an appointment with them to get more information on their cakes. However, our appointment was NOT a good experience. The customer service was greatly lacking. The guy we met with didn’t seem to care about our business and wasn’t very professional. We waited for a while before he even started talking to us and while we waited he seemed to be doing something on his phone. He said he would send us a quote and we never heard from them again. Without the quote, we had already decided not to go with them.

Judy and Art are very helpful and efficient everytime I dealt with them. The cake they did for my wedding was awesome! Exactly what i pictured it to be! I would highly recommend them! My guest is still talking about the cake today!

So disappointed in birthday cake. Suppose to have a strawberry filling. Large strawberries were quartered and piled between layers. Was a complete mess when trying to serve. Never have experienced such a thing. To make it worse, it did not taste good.

We went in for the tasting because we heard they were the best. Might be true but the service was very inappropriate. No communication, the rep was very standoffish and we literally had to bring up questions to get one answer responses. I believe that the family runs a good business and provide great items but they might want to consider the guy that presents is sharper and has personal skills. We aren’t buying from them BECAUSE of this. In the service industry before and you take care of your own. This was not the case.

We had set an appointment for a tasting for upcoming wedding. Service was awful, first consultation for tasting was not up to par. The guy taking care of us seemed uninterested since the get go. We were told we would get an email back with the estimate for the design we chose and still after 3 months never heard back from them. My sister had recommended it from past weddings. This is absolutely a cake store we will not be contacting.

My husband and I ordered a cake from Simon Lee for our Wedding. They have so many cool ideas and flavors to choose from. The cake tasting was great! We decided on the orange cream with white cake. It was the bomb! This place is a gem of flavors and good service! If you are looking for a neat design and flavor, come to this bakery!!! I highly recommend it!

I found Simon Lee through the Bridal Expo last year. I tried many different cakes and flavors, and Simon Lee had the best tasting cake HANDS DOWN. So moist and the flavors are authentic, not artificial. Another thing that stood out was their cake displays. WOW so tall, detailed, elegant and beautiful. They have such a wide range of talent, doing not only wedding cakes, but grooms cakes, birthday cakes, specialty cakes. They make UT tower replica cakes for goodness sake! Simon Lee makes the unthinkable happen.
I worked with Judy from the get go, and she is just MARVELOUS. She was so helpful from the first consultation to the day of the wedding. I brought in some inspirational photos, and she took copious notes and really took my vision to heart. She copied my inspirational photo into my customer profile and sketched everything out so that I can approve. Very thoughtful and customer focused. She did both my wedding and groom’s cake, and they were completely different concepts.
Simon Lee also has the BEST flavor combinations. I drool every time I look at her filling and cake flavor sheet. We did three different cake flavors and a unique filling for each, one for each tier. Judy helped us pick the best combinations and let us try each. They use the best ingredients and their butter cream is so velvety– it’s to die for!
My cake turned out exactly how I wanted it the day of. I was able to rent one of her beautiful cake stands for a fraction of the cost. The sugar flowers are the best I’ve ever seen. They look so real and ethereal. The groom’s cake took everyone’s breath away and my husband was SO HAPPY!
I will recommend Simon Lee until the end of time!!!

My husband and I tried several different bakeries in the Austin area before deciding to go with Simon Lee for both our wedding cake and groom’s cake. We both felt that the cakes at most other bakeries were way too sweet and artificial tasting. However, Simon Lee’s cakes were light, fluffy, melt-​in-​your-​mouth deliciousness.
We chose two favors for our wedding cake: orange mousse and tiramisu. For the groom’s cake, we chose chocolate cake with chocolate mousse. We decided to order enough cake for 170 guests even though we only had 120 guests come to the wedding. A silly mistake, most wedding vendors will tell you (some stats say only ²⁄₃ of guests will eat cake), but we had no cake left over — I’m fact, some poor guests didn’t even get to try some! We later learned that several guests had gotten multiple pieces of cake because it was just that good!
I must also compliment Simon Lee for the artistic work they did creating my husband’s baseball-​cap-​shaped groom’s cake. The cake literally looked like two baseball caps stacked together, it was amazing. Several guests and myself included walked past the cake, assuming they were real caps!
I docked a star for the higher price of the cakes and the sometimes sporadic communications with Simon Lee Bakery. We had to get our wedding venue (who recommended Simon Lee) involved at one point early on in the process when I wasn’t getting any calls back, but after that, it was smooth sailing up to the wedding day.

Simon Lee was a great company to work with! We loved our consultation, who doesn’t like sampling cake?
We had the red velvet and orange-​zest (?) cakes — DELICIOUS! I’m not sure if the «orange-​zest» is the correct title of the flavor, but you get the idea.
Simon Lee worked perfectly with our budget and hit the ball out of the park! Our grooms cake was a humidor and the brides cake was filled with cake balls. I wish we had more leftovers!

Our wedding cake was more beautiful than we had envisioned, and sooo delicious! Plus, Judy and everyone at Simon Lee Bakery were so accommodating. =)
I’m very surprised at the last 3 reviews with very low ratings. All I can say is that I had a fantastic experience with them and I can’t wait to get the same cake for our anniversary. =)

Horrible customer service. We had an appointment but still sat there for 30 minutes before anyone came out and acknowledged our presence. The tasting didn’t go well and then as we were leaving the lady tried to sneakily force me to sign a contract!!! Don’t go here!

OK, like everybody else I decided to try Simon Lee for my wedding cake because they’re just «so amazing» according to every bridal show. But honestly, I was so incredibly underwhelmed. The cake was ok, but the customer service was awful! When we came in for our tasting we had to wait about 25 minutes to be seen (very unprofessional) and then when we were finally seen, it felt like the baker was just going through the motions. There was almost no attention paid to what we wanted, no respect for our budget and the cakes that we tasted (which we had no say in and would never have chosen) were very meh.
Five minutes in we wanted to walk out, and by the end of the short consultation we had a proposal for a boring, cookie-​cutter cake with no personalization that was at least 50% higher than any other quote we got — btw, the other quotes were for tastier cakes that were completely personalized for us.
Seriously, what is all the fuss about? I guess this is a good place if you want to seem trendy and overpay? Brides, you are MUCH better served going somewhere else with less ego and more taste (literally). Suffice it to say, we did.

I honestly don’t know what people are on, but Simon’s Lee not only has horrible cake, but it has some of the worst cake I’ve tasted in a long time.
If I could rate half a star, I would. I’ve been spending the past month or so looking for a bakery to do my wedding cake, and of course you hear it all over the Bridal Shows (which are a joke, btw) «Oh, you MUST try Simon Lee cakes, they’re ARTISTS.»
A word to the wise: artist does not equal chef. Their cakes are lovely, don’t get me wrong. Granted, their style is a bit passé these days, but they’re classic and lovely.
I guess I should relay my own experience to give what I’m saying some context.
Starting off, I tried calling Simon Lee to schedule an appointment so many times, but their voice mail was full. Are that many people in the Austin area getting married on any given day? Do they not have someone to mind the answering machine? After several tries throughout the week, my mother was able to reach someone during my normal work hours. She schedules the appointment, and that’s it. «That’s it?» I ask. «No ‘what flavors do you want to try? No ‘how many’ or ‘what day’?» Nope. Nothing. It seemed dubious at best.
So weeks later, after I had to bend over backward yet again to confirm the appointment (still with a chip on my shoulder that no one asked me about flavors) we walk in to Simon Lee’s bakery — a poorly-​lit, dusty, sad-​looking place with their fake cakes for display. I grit my teeth, feeling rather nervous that I wouldn’t be able to keep a straight face about my relationship with the bakery thus far. Would they even have any of the flavors I wanted?
I was greeted by a woman (I don’t remember her name, I don’t think she ever told me) who proceeded to seat us by a bunch of binders with photos (definitely from at least 20 years ago, as the dresses and hair showed) of their past work. I guess we were supposed to spend the next 20 minutes looking through these while they scraped up whatever flavors they had in the back.
Basically I told them I didn’t like chocolate, which seemed to be a BFD (big f***ing deal), so they basically told me what flavors I’d be trying. Uhm, no? Not cool. How will I be able to know if I want you for my cake baker if I don’t know if you can make the flavors *I* want? Wow.
So after 20 minutes or so, she returned with plates of four flavors or so. To be perfectly honest, I don’t remember what all the flavors were. None of them were the flavors I was interested in, nor were the flavors anything resembling what they said they were — in fact, they all blurred together as they were all so much alike. The only one that stood out to me was the pistachio, which was so AWFUL I still cringe to think about it. Rather than being that nice, delicately sweet pistachio you think of with spumoni or other nice sweets, my tongue was tragically acquainted with a mushy mess of watered-​down peanut-​butter tasting glop.
The cakes were flavorless. The icings were as well, unless they were unbelievably awful. Blech! Bleh bleh bleh!
At that point, I didn’t care that they had never heard of someone making an Earl-​Grey flavored cake, or even Almond! Even if they had, I wouldn’t ever want them making it.
So brides, don’t fret if you’re having trouble getting a hold of Simon Lee. Consider yourself spared.

So just to start off, I am a cake decorator, baker, etc, so I do have high standards. I analyze and critique anything I eat… that said, the cakes at this place are amazing.
I ordered a 3 tier piña colada with cream cheese wedding cake and a single tier chocolate mousse cake for the groom. During the initial meeting and tasting, she got very confused about what design I wanted, despite the fact I gave her my wedding invitation and said copy this. She messed up our monogram and then argued with me that it was right (It should have been KYH, but she wrote KHY)
The cakes were GORGEOUS. Everyone had a fit at how beautiful both of them were. I was very very very pleased with how she executed the design. I had ordered cream cheese frosting, but for some reason it showed up covered in buttercream, but it still tasted so gosh darn amazing. We took home a big chunk of both of the cakes, and I ate them as often as I could, and was very sad to throw the rest of it away a week later. Everyone just went crazy over how delicious and moist the cakes were.
Customer service could be better. Cakes are amazing. Prices are average to pricey. For my two cakes I paid around $ 760, which is just a little more than I was expecting.

THE BEST WEDDING CAKES IN TOWN!!! We loved everything about working with Simon Lee — the deliciousness of their cakes is unmatched, their look & quality of work is perfect, and their kindness and professionalism is rare. Judy and Jad took such great care of us. Their bakery may not be the fanciest but that doesn’t even matter — the cakes are beautiful and delicious. Not like your guests are even going to see what the bakery looks like…
I must have changed my mind about the style of cake at least 5 times — each time they were so helpful and patient. My final choice was actually one that Judy recommended and it turned out better than I could have imagined! She read me so well and got the cake spot on. I cannot stop looking at pictures of my cake!
Daniel’s cake was a basketball on a sheet cake base that looked like a basketball court — amazing! The detail and accuracy of everything blew everyone away. We had so many guests tell us it was the best cake they’ve ever had and we completely agree.
We found out after our wedding that our coordinator walked in on the venue workers boxing up extra cake to take home. While that really angers me, it speaks volumes of just how amazing the cake is.
Simon Lee is worth every delicious penny.