Classic Cakes By Lori

Classic Cakes by Lori did an amazing job for my January wedding! They helped me put together a cake that I wanted (three different flavors in one cake!!) but at a reasonable cost. They did a wonderful job, were very professional and helpful with changes I made along the way. People commented all night long on how amazing the cake tasted! Absolutely loved them and would definitely recommend them!

Cakes By Lori did a great job on our wedding cake. She was a referral and didn’t let us down. From the different layers that were customized, to the final overall look, they did a great job! Guests raved!

Absolutely delicious! The cake was BEAUTIFUL! Exactly what I envisioned, their attention top detail is impeccable.

Cakes by Lori did an AMAZING job on our wedding cake. We received so many compliments on how beautiful it was and how absolutely delicious it tasted!!! I HIGHLY recommend them!

Melt in your mouth wedding cake. We did the almond vanilla cupcakes! Everyone was raving about them at our wedding. Lori was wonderful and easy to work with also!

I don’t think that I have ever had cake that tasted as good as our wedding cake from Classic Cakes by Lori. My husband and I really enjoyed going through the cake tasting and watching our concept come to realization. You know you are working with an expert when they ask you questions that you never even considered. The business is family operated and they really make you feel welcome and loved. If you want a delicious and beautiful cake, then this is the place to come to!

I really loved that this is a family-​run business. Lori, her husband, and Jeremy are all amazing.
The Good:
Taste — This was the most delicious cake I have eaten. And it was my wedding cake, so that was even more impressive based on the size, flavors, number of tiers, etc.
Communication — CCBL was super easy to get in contact with. I appreciated the quick email responses from Jeremy and the text message from Lori to call her to confirm final cake details about a week before my big day!
Lori is funny! I had a concern about how yellow the lemon cake was (yes, it was a little «bridezilla» and I am 100% oblivious to making wedding cakes, so I wasn’t sure if the shade of the yellow was something that could be manipulated). When I asked Lori’s husband about the color, I immediately heard Lori proudly shout out from the back room where she was icing a gorgeous blush peacock cake, «we use butter, a lot of butter» to explain the color. This is when I knew CCBL was going to be our vendor! Between being fun, honest, and a family-​run business, I knew we hit the wedding cake jackpot!
My husband’s «Groom’s Cake» was equally amazing in flavor and quality. I could tell that Lori and her team did their research as far as designing the perfect ping-​pong table cake! It looked incredible!
The «Okay»:
Consultation — CCBL seems to have a bias against fondant. When I selected flavor combinations for the consultation (they let you pick 6!), two of my selections involved fondant, but when they made them, they were iced with buttercream.
Design — We selected a pretty traditional 4-​tier round cake. Our design was alternating quilt and buttercream dots and smooth layers with a light ivory buttercream frosting with small buttercream pearl trim at the bottom of each tier. At our consultation, I expressed interest in having fabric ribbon around the bottom of each tier and provided them with ribbon. They said they had used ribbon previously and explained the process of spraying the ribbon with a special product, etc. On my «week before confirmation call» with Lori, Lori suggested using fondant pearls instead of buttercream to avoid any issues and I was once again the happiest bride alive. Back to the ribbon, I now realize I should have requested (or maybe CCBL should have suggested) creating a «ribbon look» using fondant. When it was time to cut the cake and my wedding coordinator ripped the ribbon off the tier we were cutting, and the cake looked off (as now only 3 of the 4 tiers had ribbon!). This was a design default and since I’m the one who wanted ribbon, I’ll take the blame. My advice to future brides: Don’t be dissuaded from fondant! Or avoid ribbon!
The dreaded «bubble» — When it was time to cut the cake, it became apparent that something had happened to our cake. The top tier grew a huge bulge on one side and the buttercream was popped out. It looked like our cake developed a giant zit. We had our cake indoors at our October wedding in Austin, so I am not sure what caused this to occur.
Overall, I loved both our cakes. I would not have picked a different vendor. The cakes were beautiful and tasted amazing. I can’t wait to enjoy a small bite on our one year anniversary. CCBL provides the happy couple with step-​by-​step instructions on how to wrap your top tier to save it. CCBL also let us know they can re-​create our masterpiece if we order the top tier a few weeks before our anniversary. My husband and I will be doing both!

One of the best vendors I worked with for our wedding (9÷26÷15). I sent Pinterest images for inspiration and they NAILED it. We wanted a «naked» cake with some flowers on each of the tiers. When we saw the cake, my husband’s and my jaw fell to the ground. I honestly think it looked better than the Pinterest pictures I had sent and that never happens!
And the best part… it was delicious! We did lemon cake with raspberry cream cheese filling and buttercream on the outside. Additionally, Lori called me personally a couple of days before the wedding and went detail by detail to confirm that she had everything correct. It made me feel so confident in them and Lori was the absolute sweetest. I felt like she was just as excited about the wedding as I was!
I cannot recommend them more highly.

Classic Cakes By Lori did the wedding cake and groom cake for my daughter’s wedding. The cakes were beautiful and importantly, delicious. In addition, they filled my daughter and now son-in-law’s vision completely and completed the process with excellent communication. Couldn’t have asked for better taste, appearance, or service. Highly recommend!

My brother and his new wife got their wedding cakes from here. This is wedding cake, folks. Holy crap, so freaking good. Best part of the whole dang wedding. My brother got a longhorn groomscake, super cool looking. It was carrot cake and still good.
The wedding cake was like a lemon flavor type, with some cream inside and this amazing glittery frosting. No fondant !!! Whoo hoo!
Guess what? I got to keep like half of the bottom tier. It vanished in about 3 days.

DELICIOUS!!! Thanks Lori for making Shelly and Brian’s wedding cake! Not only was it beautiful, but it was out of this world!!! You are awesome!

I had the extreme misfortune of having to deal with the people that work here and pay for it!
We first heard of Classic Cakes by Lori at the Austin Bridal Extravaganza and loved their samples. I kept a mental note and decided to buy two dozen cupcakes for my best friend’s baby shower.
First of all I ordered the cupcakes over the phone with a very polite but unhelpful woman who couldn’t even tell me how much a dozen cupcakes cost! Oh well, how expensive could they be, right? She said she would call me back with confirmation of my order and asked me to pay ahead of time since «the person who works on Sunday doesn’t do credit card processing.» Just curious, why doesn’t your staff, especially the people that are there during pick up times, know how to work a credit card machine? Oh well, I’ll pay over the phone. In the long run it was better for them because had I been asked to pay when I got there I’m not sure I would have. These 2 dozen cupcakes were over 100 dollars! Seriously? You have to be kidding me. No design. Nothing fancy. Just cupcakes with icing on top. But, I love my best friend and she thought these cupcakes were delicious so I bought them anyway thinking they must be pretty sizable if they cost over $ 4 per cupcake.
So then comes the day before the baby shower. Its a Saturday (I can’t pick them up on Sunday). I told the bakery I would be there around 12 – 1 to pick up the cupcakes. Well I was running a little late, but (to the best of my memory) they said they did pickups until 3 so I really wasn’t all that worried about it. That is, until I got to Dripping Springs. Its close to a 45 minute drive for me to get to Dripping Springs and I was using the email confirmation they sent me from my order to direct me to the bakery. Well, what they don’t tell you in your email confirmation, you know, the one that’s supposed to tell you everything you NEED TO KNOW about your order and when/​where to pick it up, is that if you route to the via the address link in the email… its takes you to the wrong place. Actually, it takes you to the complete opposite side of Dripping Springs. So I start driving around trying to find this place and can’t find it so I reference my confirmation email again to get their phone number to call. I called and got a prerecorded message that THEY DON’T ANSWER THE PHONE ON SATURDAYS. Please remember that their pick up hours for Saturday are (again, to the best of my memory) from 11 – 3 and yet they don’t answer the phone. If you’re going to charge me over $ 100 for 2 dozen cupcakes I think you can afford to hire some high school kid at minimum wage to wait by the phone for 4 hours just in case someone actually needs to get a hold of you regarding their order.
I finally decided to look at their website, thinking that possibly the address in the email was wrong. Their website isn’t mobile-​friendly. They did have written out directions though because apparently, they knew that any map app would take you to the opposite side of Dripping Springs (again, I’m thinking that might have just been important enough to tell someone in a confirmation email when you’re telling them when/​where to pick up their order… but I’m just logical). So after driving around Dripping Springs for about 45 minutes and calling the store constantly to try to get someone with a pulse to pick up the phone I arrived at the bakery. An overweight man was sitting with a bride and her family discussing a wedding cake and I couldn’t help but feel sorry for her that she would have to deal with these people too. I asked if their phone worked to which he responded, «Oh were you the one calling a lot? You’re Natalie? I noticed you were late for your pickup time. Did you get lost?» It took every fiber in my body not to scream at him. He went to the back to get my cupcakes and opened the box so I could see them. I’m not kidding, I thought they were mini cupcakes! Those cupcakes were NOWHERE NEAR worth what I paid for them! I felt completely ripped off! Needless to say I won’t be using this bakery ever again.
And let me just say, I understand that bakeries like this don’t care about «little orders.» If you’re not there to design a $ 5000, 7-​tier wedding cake with fruit filling they couldn’t care less about your satisfaction with their services, but what businesses like this DON’T realize is that I am engaged, my 2 best friends are also engaged and I have another friend who will be engaged any time now. After they heard about what I went through just to get CUPCAKES we all had a discussion about bakeries. And we came to this conclusion, regardless of how good the cakes is, we would rather spend twice as much money on our wedding cakes/​desserts at a bakery that picks up the phone and doesn’t shrug off customers because they’re not the most expensive order of the day. I can only describe this place as pathetic.

This place is as excellent as it gets folks! We hired Classic Cakes by Lori to make our wedding and grooms cake. We were blown away with the attention to detail and love that went into these creations. Our wedding guests kept complimenting how beautiful the cakes were, not to mention how delicious! Every bride wants to feel like a vendor understands her wedding is the most special moment and not just another wedding, and this is exactly how Lori and her team works. They care, they accommodate and they sit down to give you their full time and attention. My husband and I loved our wedding cake experience and cannot say better things about Classic Cakes by Lori.

I used Classic Cakes by Lori for my Groom’s cake and they were fantastic. I contacted them a month before my wedding and they came through fantastically. I had no idea what I wanted but told them my interests and what they produced was awesome. I ended up with a Texas shaped cake with symbols over significant locations in our lives, the cake was delicious and if we need specialty cakes in the future we will definitely use them.

Lori is great at what she does. We hired her to make our wedding and grooms cake and it turned out fabulous. From the consultation to the follow up emails to the big day, she did an excellent job.
The tasting was what sealed the deal for us. Her mexican vanilla is to die for but really all her cake flavors are great. She definitely had the best tasting cakes of all the ones we tried in the Round Rock area. Choosing her was a no-​brainer!
My husband and I showed her a picture of the designs we wanted and she made it happen! Even better we made edits a couple of weeks before the wedding and she altered the design, no problem. It came out better than we imagined. I gasped when I saw it.

We just used Classic Cakes by Lori for our daughter’s wedding (9−28−13), and they were wonderful!
The cakes were delicious and we have had many people say they were the best they’d ever had, and we agree. We tasted numerous cakes and these were hands down the best. Moist, delicious and flavorful… the hardest part will be choosing the flavors you want from all they have to choose from!
Maybe because they are in Dripping Springs, they are a little less expensive than some of the most well-​known Austin bakeries, but don’t let that fool you into thinking they aren’t the best, because they are. They delivered two delicious and beautifully decorated cakes, with friendly, kind and helpful service at every step of the way. I highly recommend them!

Lori made our wedding cake and groom’s cake for our June 22, 2013 wedding. She was a joy to work with and her cakes were amazing! My cake was beaustiful and elegant and the groom’s cake was fun and exactly what he wanted. Both cakes were deliciuos and our guests loved them. I would recommend Classic Cakes by Lori to anyone who wants a perfect wedding cake.

We used Lori for our wedding. and then for cupcakes on our anniversary. Cake and icing were both fantastic. These people are sweet, go out of your way for you. and deliver an awesome product. They’re a little out of the way but don’t let this deter you from purchasing a cake from them… It’s so worth the few extra miles. They wont disappoint.

Wow!!! My cake from Classic Cakes by Lori was not only delicious (Chunky Carrot Cake) but the most magnificent purple ombré tiered cake. I was floored by the richness of the color and smoothness of the blends. Lori you are a top artist and a fantastic baker. Thanks for making our day so sweet and yummy!

I used Lori for my wedding cakes (bride & groom), and absolutely loved her! We wanted to have a cake with butter-​cream frosting rather than fondant, however I wanted the smooth «pristine «look of fondant– Lori has found a way to make her butter-​cream look just that way! In addition to her cakes, Lori was so sweet and very accommodating to work with. During my cake tasting my mother, and MOH attended with me while my fiancé & father were golfing, however Lori made a «to-​go» sample tray for both of the guys to taste after their golf game! The week leading up to my wedding, she called to confirm details with me, and was just as pleasant on the phone as in person. The day of my wedding, the cake arrived to the venue with ample time to spare & was absolutely delicious! I would highly recommend her to anyone within the Austin area, specifically to anyone wanting butter-​cream frosting.