Quack's 43rd Street Bakery

Service is not amazing but the food quality and prices are. Really solid coffee (cheapest cold brew in the area) and there's always a few interesting seasonal flavors. I'm a big fan of the cookies and savory pastries but I've only tried the cakes a couple times so I can't speak to those. There's plenty of variety with the sweet pastries and the shortbread cookies have fun designs. As of July 2022 there's no indoor seating which kinda sucks in the summer but the tables outside at least have shade umbrellas and they do a good enough job with packaging the takeout.

We used Quack's for our wedding cake and desserts and we had THE best experience. Kirsten, the wedding cake consultant, was my favorite vendor that I worked with for our wedding. She is so kind and responsive and came up with creative ways to work with our budget and our servings needs for both the cake and the desserts. Quack's is also the best price you'll find in Austin by FAR for wedding cake. We also really enjoyed the take out wedding cake tasting- we're going to do it just for fun with friends for dessert. You choose the different cake flavors and they give you decent sized pieces to taste along little samples of the frostings to mix and match the flavor profiles, it was very fun. Hire Quacks.

The croissants at this place are PHENOMENAL. I tried them for the first time last weekend and went back again this weekend! I am telling anyone who will listen that they need to try these things.