Francesco’s Bakery

Great Italian bakery. when I visit family I usually stop and grab some goodies!

This bakery is the the greatest! The quality is fantastic and the prices are reasonable. The staff goes out of their way to be helpful. They have a wide variety of baked goods, and the most delicious rainbow cookies I’ve ever had. Words can not express how much I love this bakery.

Classic Italian bakery … this Hicksville location is one of their flagship stores. Apparently so popular, there are a chain of locations on Long Island. Reminds me of my old Brooklyn neighborhood joints in Bayridge. Each cannoli cream filled dessert was excellent. Fresh cream and tiny chocolate chips. I loved everything I bought (assorted mini desserts), they were smaller versions of their larger sliced desserts and cakes. A must try, the mini chocolate cheesecake cups. I am also a custard lover so the custard cups were a definite favorite. I can’t enough about the mini napoleon. Oh next time I’m coming back for the full sized single serve piece! The two slivers I had was just not enough. The layers of pastry were crispy and held up well with the creamy layers in between. The top icing was a sweet and rich vanilla and chocolate drizzle.
All of the pastries held well … I hate it when flaky desserts don’t stand up well after being refrigerated and just as bad if the filling over powers the pastry layers. This is not a problem here.
I will definitely go back or try one of their many other locations to sample more yummy goods. Believe me, it was so hard to choose.

I went to Francescos to do my cake tasting for a party in am having in July. When I got there, I found out I had the wrong date. I was a little bummed because I live in Queens and had arranged for someone to watch my baby while I was out and I really didn’t want to come out to Hicksville again (nothing against Hicksville, it’s just far for me). The staff was super nice about the whole thing. They saw me anyway even though they had other people scheduled to come in at any moment. The cakes they offered for my event were the standard cannoli filling w/​white cake, chocolate cake w/​chocolate mousse, white cake with chocolate pudding, etc. They were all good. A little basic but still good. For an extra charge they also offer red velvet w/​cream cheese frosting, carrot cake w/​cream cheese frosting, and Nutella cream. Those were fantastic! Especially the Nutella cream. If nut allergies weren’t a concern, I would have gone w/​the Nutella cream. We decided on the red velvet since it was delicious and safer. I bought some jelly donuts, cannolis, crumb cake, and an oreo cheesecake to go. I only tried the oreo cheesecake which was the best cheesecake I’ve ever had, after my mother’s. I didn’t try the rest of the desserts but from what I told, they were all great. Two thumbs up!

This bakery has went downhill so much. Not only was I on a line where 3 customers complained about the dryness of their pastries I got lucky enough to have a dried out black and white cookie. (MY FAVORITE DRIED OUT COOKIES) My mom treated me and I felt so bad having to throw it out (I ended up hiding it in my bag til I found a garbage and she wasn’t looking) guess that’s what happens when you open up a lot of bake shops. You become all about the money and no longer care about the product of your food. It’s a shame.

I had an amazing cake for my sweet 16 from here. It was so delicious that so many people went back for seconds! I had my sweet 16 at Château Briand in Westbury. I was a little iffy because of the prices but in the end I believed it was worth it. Giancarlo was very accommodating with what I wanted on my cake and it looked so good!

I stop by once every few month. This is my favorite strawberry short cake! They have the perfect texture of cake meets fresh cream and strawberries.
Of course you can also never go wrong with their red velvet ether. With the grownups the shortcake is a crowd pleaser and with anyone with a sweet tooth grab the red velvet.

One word… disappointed! I purchased some brownies and cupcakes for the kids, which were average. I also purchased St. Joseph’s pastries (canoli), Napoleons and a mini Blueberry Cheesecake. Well, the Blueberry Cheesecake was fine, but no better than anyplace else you can get it. The St. Joseph pastries were terrible. The canoli cream was passable, but the cake was very dry. The orange peel is supposed to be candied. Instead got a soggy piece of peel. One of our guests had the Napoleon and couldn’t finish it because the pastry layers were hard and dry. I’m so sorry that I wasted my money here. If only I went a few miles out of my way to Dortonis, we would’ve hade wonderful pastries with our guests. Live and learn, I guess.

Francesco’s is true blue Italian American all the way. Top notch pastry, bread and the cakes are to die for. Come on by and give them a try you won’t be dissapointed. Looking for a wedding cake or maybe a sweet 16, how about a birthday cake? No matter what your looking for you can find it here.

Definitely the best bakery in town. Specializes in wedding cakes, other specialty cakes, cookies, pastries, bread, and just about everything else. Giancarlo, wedding cake coordinator, always has great and creative ideas for your special cake! Cookies are made from scratch and to die for, so many different pastry options also. If you were looking for traditional Italian pastries, butter cookies, and biscotti this is the BEST bakery for you.

My wife and I would like to sincerely thank Giancarlo and the rest of Francesco’s Bakery for doing an amazing job on our wedding cake. Giancarlo was so patient and did everything in his power to work with our budget while giving us the cake that we wanted. He is truly a professional at what he does. The cake looked and tasted great (not often you get both). They also have a great selection of Italian baked goods! We had the pleasure of trying some of them each time we visited the bakery. Please make this bakery your first stop when looking for a cake for your event, or just to bring home some baked goods.

This my second time buying pastry and cake they were awful old stale and sour taste! For now I will travel to my hometown where I grew up to get my bake goods. Old fashion bakery in Glen cove
The best!

I ordered a cake and they making me wait in line. I heard 1 hour! Outrageous! But it smells buttery.

Got my wedding cake from here! I also walked out with great pastries that looked and tasted so good! Definitely will use them for any occasion in the future. They have a great variety of goodies.

Amazing wedding cake on 11÷8÷15. Rosette exactly how i wanted. Told Giancarlo that I liked roses on my cake but we don’t like fondant so he suggested rosette buttercream. Absolutely in love. Custard filling with fresh strawberry. I still have guests telling me how tasty the cake was. Sadly we left our top tier cake in the hotel :(we won’t be able to eat it next year.

Very racist bakery! My sister and I went in to the bakery to get a few goodies. It wasn’t busy at all in there. We waited a while to be helped. This Caucasian lady came in couple minutes after and got served right away as if my sister and I were never there waiting. Someone came to help us and she was very nice she was patient and took our order. Her co-​worker turned around and told her «oh you can take care of them». She didn’t have to be so nasty my money and the Caucasian lady’s money is the same no difference… besides that scene we bought a few things. The macaroons, a cupcake, rainbow cookie cake and chocolate cake they were all pretty good!

Horrible! I went in search of French macarons to buy for a friend. I read a review that said they had them here, so I called and confirmed and came by.
Well, they looked lovely in the case. I got home and opened the box to arrange them nicely in a tin and I noticed that one was smashed. Upon further inspection, I saw that a few were crushed. Then, I picked on up and it literally crumpled into dust in my hands. They were disgustingly stale.
Now, anyone who’s had a French macaron knows that they are fragile, but also soft and a bit chewy. I tried biting into one and it was hard as a rock. I spit it out.
I don’t understand how a bakery could even sell something knowing it’s terribly old and stale. It’s a shame. I suggest paying more money for a real macaron. I learned my lesson and will not be returning here.

Wow, just wow.
Selection is phenomenal (but they don’t have Italian leaf cookies, pistachio, lemon, vanilla, strawberry, etc. — maybe they make them around Christmas only), they seriously have a massive array of sweets and treats, it is a bit overwhelming!
Everything I had there was delicious, and I am not a sweets guy, they just know how to bake. Everyone was nice (Carlo is a hard working dude). Worth checking out, they have a ton of locations but this one is the main/​original one I think.

Big thanks to Giancarlo and the team for making an amazing looking/​tasting cake for our engagement party at the Westbury manor!
Giancarlo is great to work with and gave us tips on how to make our cake look special and unique.
We got a cannoli and Raspberry filling and every one of our guests loved our cake! Most of our guests thought it was a wedding cake!
THanks for everything Giancarlo and sorry for all the times we called to bug you lol!

I am having my daughter’s sweet 16 at the Westbury manor and Francesco’s bakery is the preferred cake vendor.
After reading all the reviews Here I was a bit skeptical about going.
I was stuck in traffic and called Francesco’s bakery to notify them that I would be running late and they were very nice about it. Upon arrival I was greeted very nicely by the staff. I met with GianCarlo who educated us on all the fillings, flavors and many different designs. All the cakes we tried were good but to my surprise my daughter loved the raspberry and custard which was excellent.
Overall My daughter’s and I had an excellent experience at Francesco’s, even ended up buying deserts to take home and everyone loved it.
Can’t wait to see the cake!