A Piece of Cake Bakery

Some big news from Aki’s Bakery
Thanks to Margaret’s French Bakery in Campbell, Aki’s guava cake will continue! They will be picking up where we left off.
Thank you for all of your support and business over the last couple of decades. We enjoyed being a part of your community, your special occasions, and your familes.
Some of our staff have also moved to Margaret’s so you can expect the same great guava you know and love. While you are there please try out their other fine desserts. We wish them all the best continuing forward.
Please check out their page on how to order your next dessert.
Margaret’s French Bakery
750 McGlincy Lane, suite 105
Campbell, CA 95 008
(408)379−2226

This business is «CLOSED-​OUT OF BUSINESS»
Don’t get as frustrated as I did, the phone says mail box full and advises you to of course order in advance!
Why they never disconnected the phone or removed their advertising from Internet is beyond me …

CLOSE-​This bakery went out of bussiness.

Is this the end of the guava cake??! I just went to the new location (1639 Meridian Ave, San Jose) and it’s empty, phone number (408) 287‑5404 goes straight to voicemail (box is full, not accepting messages) and (408) 264‑2762 is no longer in service. Help!

This is review is just for akis. Akis is a family tradition! We’ve been going for years! Went and got a guava cake yesterday. And was extremely disappointed! Really dry, did not taste the guava what so ever, and sweeter then Usual. For the price I paid, I honestly can’t say if I would go back any more. What happened to all the staff that worked at the old location. Maybe that’s why it tastes different.

I ordered my wedding cake in July for a September wedding and was told that they could do what I wanted no problem. A week before I got married they told me they couldn’t do the design I wanted on the cake and were VERY RUDE and told me they were sending back my money for the cake and that it should be mailed by the end of the week like it was some rain check for something at a grocery store! This is my wedding cake! I would NEVER use A Piece of Cake it’s more like a Piece of @%(%!
Highly unprofessional!

My daughet and I went to order her wedding cake, one was a 2 tier cake and a sheet cake. We also wanted fresh flowers added, we agreed to bring the flowers to them so they can decorate it. thet never mentioned we should bring the flowers a couple of days before the wedding day When we then went to pick up the cakes, along with the flowers, we were told they couldn’t do it unless we went out of town chasing the decorator!!! The lady? she told us we should have read the contract! ok, no courtesy call as a reminder? she was so rude! no greetings, no thank you. made it look like she’s doing us a favor by doing business with them! very rude!!! lastly, the sampling was so measly, you“d think they were going through big expenses to serve portions enough to taste the full flavors, the cakes servings were about ½ teaspoon! At any rate, I wouldn’t do business with them in the future! expensive as well.

I really needed a POG cake for a special occasion and I contacted them during their transition (early June 2014). Admittedly (given their circumstance), it was a bit difficult reaching them by phone, but they did contact me and turned a cake around for me with less than 2 days notice (standard round cake). It was a crowd pleaser.

We have been ordering cakes from this bakery for almost 10 years now, starting way back when they were still at Santa Clara. From our huge wedding cake for 200 and all the birthday cakes thereafter — they never disappoint! My latest experience was back this past November for my baby’s 1^st birthday. The birthday party theme was «UNO», so I wanted a sheet cake that looked like a deck of cards with the «UNO» logo on it. The communication by email and phone with Carol was great. She noted all my specifications and details but threw in excellent suggestions. What I really appreciated was her sensitivity in helping me keep the cost down while still making sure I had a cute theme cake for the party. Then last minute, I requested for a smash cake, and she made sure they delivered that as well. Very grateful and happy customer here!

A Piece of Cake bakery was contracted through the Hotel Valencia to do my wedding cake 1 year ago. Part of the agreement was that A Piece of Cake would provide a complimentary wedding anniversary cake for my husband and I, rather than freezing our top layer. From the beginning, the communication of the staff was terrible and if I did not stalk them through the process, nothing would have been done on my wedding cake. The day of my wedding, the cake looked great, no complaints there. However, fast forward 1 year…
I contacted A Piece of Cake Bakery to ask if we can order our 1 year anniversary cake, and it literally took someone 1 month to return my call or email. They asked for a gift card to verify and when i told them I did not have it, that the infomraiton was on my contract. I again, never heard back from them.
The moral of the story is not the anniversary cake, it is the fact that the emnployees and owner of this company have no client loyalty and DO NOT honor what they promise. I will never recommend this bakery.

I feel bad that «A Piece of Cake Bakery» is getting bad reviews for Aki’s Bakery. They are sharing space and not the same company at all! And I got to say that these new Aki’s reviews are horrible because they are basing it on their transitional move. The lease at their old place got expired and they are still even deciding on where the new one should be if they decide to reopen. I still think Aki’s deserves 5 stars for their great cakes. Yes they don’t have a store front currently but at least they are trying to accomodate as much orders as they can by taking phone orders. They didn’t even have to do that if they didn’t want to. It’s also sad that people are giving them one star reviews when at one point of time they always said they were long time customers and love Aki’s.
I feel like they’re doing their best right now on top of trying to get the business at a new location. Aki’s is currently just this one fridge in A Piece of Cake Bakery.
I picked up a cake today from them and as always the quality and taste was amazing! Thank you Aki’s and I really do hope you find a place soon and re-​open!

While planning our wedding, I couldn’t be more excited to try cake. My fiancé was much less enthusiastic, claiming that «he’s just not that into cake». Come our tasting appointment, we basically inhaled the every cake sample. They were ALL so good, they turned a non-​cake guy into a definite-​cake guy.
Our consultant Shivani was incredibly insightful. I probably spoke with her on the phone a dozen times and each time she was just as pleasant, patient, and helpful. She had so many suggestions about how to stick to our budget, while getting literally everything we wanted. We decided to go with cupcakes since they’re affordable and lent chance for variety, but ended up second guessing ourselves. Shivani set us up to taste our cake combos in cupcake form just so we could be sure. We actually ended up not being quite so in love with them as we were with the traditional cake (just because I’m picky about the cake: frosting ratio, and cupcakes always have a mound of frosting on top). We called up Shivani again to let her know that we prefer the traditional cake, and booked our 6 non-​tiered cakes of chocolate w/​chocolate custard filling, almond w/​raspberry filling, and poppyseed w/​lemon filling. YUM!
Tasty? Absolutely
Friendly? For sure
Affordable? Completely
Our wedding is in August and I have every faith that A Piece of Cake Bakery will help make that day delicious.

I am a super long time customer of Aki ’ Bakery, since they were located in Japantown, but now, sadly, I cannot feel good about going back. I have noticed a real lack of consideration for customers. The communication about their move was rather indifferent which is a testament to how they feel about their customers… we had to dig to find out where they went. For me… it is sadly an era that has come to a close.

Yes Aki’s has joined with this new company and I just tried to order a guava cake for pick up today since they did indeed sell already made guava cakes at the old location. The woman I spoke to says the soonest I would be able to get a cake is 5 days from today. Very inconvenient and most likely will not be ordering any cakes with them. How do they expect a customer to wait 5 days for a simple round birthday cake? That’s a little ridiculous.

I’ve always loved Aki’s bakery and have ordered cakes for multiple occasions for many years. Note, Aki’s bakery is now A Piece of Cake Bakery. Same owners I presume. Since I loved their cakes so much I decided to have them make the cake and dessert bar for my wedding. I went in for a tasting in March and we went over the size of the cake, logistics for the wedding and picked out all the desserts for our dessert bar. A couple days later they gave me the pricing and asked that I send over pictures of the design that I wanted on our wedding cake. Everything was in place and I was set for our wedding. Then all of a sudden communication completely stopped. I kept emailing and never heard back and finally called them and left a voicemail. That’s when I learned they were moving. This was two months later in May. Someone finally called me back and told me my order «can not be honored» because they were moving.
So they never bothered to tell me they were moving or that now my wedding cake can not be fulfilled. That’s BS. Last time I checked there are method of ways to contact your customers like thru email or by phone! Why should your customers have to do the heavy lifting and chase you down?
By far the worst customer service. I will never go back to this bakery for their lack of professionalism and have made sure none of my friends and family get burned by this company.
Negative stars for this bakery if Unilocal made that possible.

This bakery made the cake for my son’s first birthday party. It was nothing short of amazing! They were incredibly helpful in quoting me a price that worked within my budget and then designing a cake that went with the theme I had told them about. I was so happy when I picked up the cake and saw how great it had turned out! It was delicious, the mocha truffle filling is a must try! Thank you to this wonderful bakery for making my son’s birthday so memorable!

I was referred here by my friends who got married a few years ago and got their cake here! So this was the first and last stop for my cake shopping for the wedding! My husband tasted their sample cake and we fell in love with the chocolate mint and I’m not even a big fan of chocolate cake! I showed a picture to my rep and she asked me to bring the ribbon and fresh flower for my cake! She worked with me on keeping my budget for the cake and helped me save money as well! She called me the day before the wedding to let me know she’s going to change the ribbon because she think a different one would look even better! I told her to go ahead and do it!
On my wedding day, it was about 5:15 and my wedding started at 6pm and I haven’t seen my cake yet, so my wedding coordinator took care of calling them… When I got a chance to see the cake it was stunning! The ribbon along with the fresh flowers made my cake look gorgeous! I was so happy with how it looked! I will be coming back again for my 1 year anniversary cake and many more! :)

I am so happy that I chose this bakery to make my husband’s birthday cake. It was a specialty cake, shaped in the form of a tapatio hot sauce bottle and large enough to serve 70 people. The cake tasted so good! I called several bakeries who specialize in specialty cakes who were very pricey, all of whom wanted to make the cake out of fondant which is very labor intensive and comes with a hefty price tag. A piece of cake bakery quoted me much less for a fondant cake and suggested I go with butter cream instead of fondant to save even more. In the end the price for the cake was about 30−40% less than I would have paid at the other bakeries I considered. I did go with the butter cream which was really good and not overly sweet. The cake itself was chocolate and fudge and all of the guests loved it.
Carol their staff member was very easy to work with and always answered the phone whenever I called to ask my many questions.
I will absolutely use A Piece of Cake Bakery again in the future.

I am very happy with my experience with A Piece of Cake Bakery! I visited and researched many places before deciding on this one. Carol worked closely with me on creating exactly the image I had in mind for my cake. Our tasting was so much fun and going through the designs and creating my own is exactly the experience I was looking for. What I liked most is that we did not have to go out and buy our own supplies which other bakeries were asking us to do.
The cake turned out beautifully and everyone was raving about how delicious it was. I got to try it the next day and couldn’t agree more!
One plus point is that they offer a free duplicate of the top of your cake one year after your wedding, so you don’t have to save that top tier and worry about eating a frozen piece a year later!
I will definitely be recommending and using this bakery for my future needs and to my friends!

A Piece of Cake Bakery offers the best value for elegant and delicious wedding cakes at reasonable prices. When I booked my tasting appointment, I shared my budget with the team and they cut down costs by doing two cakes: a traditional stacked tiered cake and a large sheet cake that would stay behind the scenes.
My fiancé and I were further impressed at the tasting when presented with a tray of delightful samples. They were all exquisite but the red velvet and carrot cake were our favorites. We chose the round stacked cake design with seafoam green dots and matching light ribbon borders. After my florist added mini red calla lilies to the cake, it looked too stunning to eat. We were thrilled to hear our guests raving about the cakes at the reception.
I was instructed to return the cake support pillars after the wedding but managed to lose half of them in the process. Never trust a bride to remember such details! Fortunately, the bakery was kind enough to waive the replacement fee.
A final bonus? We can’t wait to enjoy the complimentary 6″ cake for our one-​year wedding anniversary :)

Very unhappy with their performance on my wedding day. The cake delivery to the venue was TWO HOURS LATE! NO PHONE CALLS; NOTHING! The reception had already started and guests were present while delivery and set up took place. The cake should have been present for viewing during cocktails, but I had an empty cake table instead. They also didn’t bother to bring the silver riser to raise the cake, but I was charged $ 45 for the rental of this item.
In addition, I ordered cupcakes to be boxed individually for students were were attending the ceremony only and would receive their cupcake as they left the ceremony site (same venue). However, by the time the cupcakes arrived, the ceremony had been over for 30 minutes and those guests had already left the venue empty-​handed. PLUS, the cupcakes were packaged in bulk like from SAFEWAY and were not presentable as favors/​gifts as they had been ordered. Some of the cupcakes were to be placed at the seats of children (family) who were attending the reception as their favors, but without the presentation boxes this was a mess!
The staff response to my complaint is polite, but clearly they have little intention of dealing with this. The stock answer is «We will discuss it with the owner» and then nothing happens. Followup calls get the same response. I doubt I will have any resolution on this problem.
Save yourself the problem and DO NOT use this bakery. If I wanted SAFEWAY type items, I would have just gone to SAFEWAY in the first place.

I would never recommend this bakery to anyone! My wedding was a year ago and it still upsets me they ruined my cake. I chose not to keep any pictures of my cake because I do not want to be reminded of it. I went out of my way to drive 45 min to hand-​deliver my monogram (they only ask for an email with a clear design). Imagine my disappointment and anger when they day of they deliver the cake with a monogram that was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING like my picture. It looked like an amateur piped the letters. My guests didn’t even recognize what it was suppose to be.
Instead of apologizing and trying to fix the problem, they hemmed and hawed and said their main person wasn’t working that day. A toddler could have done a better job than what they did. They slap that on and call themselves professional? I would have been fine with any monogram that looked nice. To add insult to injury, they gave me a $ 40 refund and a voucher for an anniversary cake (I will most definitely not use). The entire refund process took a total of 4 months to be completed and took several calls. It was a sad and pathetic attempt to fix the situation. They managed to screw that up too.