Lilac Bakery

A decades long fixture in Lombard with different owners over the years. The current owner is great and judging by the pickings around 11am, a great baker too! Home made donuts are incredible. A few bucks more for a dozen compared to the local dunkins but 1000% better. The owner is also local employing local employees. During the pre lent time, they have paczki that is smart to order way ahead. That way you can save yourself a huge line with all your neighbors that Fat Tuesday. All of their pastries are incredible. When I am bringing clients cookies or a pastry, I try to get the chocolate cheese one. I always get calls back thanking me and asking where to buy this. If you need something special, you can call ahead and they should be able to have it for you on the specified day.

I have been dying to get into this bakery since we moved into the area. I finally found time early in the morning on a Friday. To my surprise, there were a ton of people already waiting in line! We browsed a little but were promptly greeted and asked what we wanted. The woman behind the counter offered my daughter a sample of cookies which was excellent because I could sample those as well!
We decided to purchase doughnuts because all the reviews said they were amazing! They did not disappoint! Soft, fresh, thick, fluffy! Upon trying them, my husband (who can normally pound down a few dunkin donuts at a time) said they were very filling and he struggled to try and eat another one! They weren’t very expensive and all their Danishes were the same price as the doughnuts! Awesome.
I was able to sample their cookies and they were also delicious. Fresh! They didn’t taste like they were sitting out all day like at some other bakeries. My eyes also saw boxes of cookies that were packaged as «no nut boxes» big plus since one of my children has peanut allergies.
The staff was also very kind. They told me about the area and mentioned some of the areas other fun attractions. It made me feel very at home and happy to have such a great small business close by to support. We will be back!

The baked goods are great, but the location leaves much to be desired. If you dont know where it is you will miss it. They have no window decorations and the interior is VERY dark and dated.

The chocolate cake doughnuts are so good. It’s a shame that 2 of the last 3 times we came to buy them on a Saturday morning they were already sold out. The other doughnuts are fine too, but the chocolate cake ones are exceptionally good.
Also bought an apple strudel there once that our out of town guests really liked. I haven’t ever ordered anything else there. It is a typical local bakery (cookies, cakes, doughnuts, etc).

Visited here last January, and now just getting around to review.
Purchased 4 M and M Sugar cookies. It was late in the ‘bakery’ day, so the cookies were a bit dry for my liking. Still okay.
The prices weren’t too bad (I think I paid no more than 3 dollars). I wanted an éclair because I read a review on them, but alas, they were gone.
I hope to visit in the future and give them another chance. I like supporting local business, and I hope they can wow me on my next visit.

This place is great. Luscious little pastries — lemon tarts, raspberry chocolate tarts, apricot tarts. Simply delicious. The tart crust is like Walker’s shortbread — crispy and buttery.
Cakes are average. Bread is above average.

I recently ordered a special cake for a family member’s nurse pinning. I was VERY disappointed in what I got… I ordered a ¼ sheet cake which I was told had to be filled, starting price $ 30. What I received was a cake for $ 44, the fudge frosting cost extra, the piped on decorations were extra and not all that great. There was barely an inch of cake on each layer around the filling and so there was more frosting than cake. I will never order from this bakery again unfortunately.

Recently, I made a run in one morning and hit Seven area bakeries in 40 minutes (aka Life: I know how to live it), selecting a variety of confections for my workplace. The list, in row of visiting: Lilac Bakery, Kuppie’s, Aracely’s, Azteca Bakery (in the Villa Park Fruit Market), Sweet Connections Bakery, La Luz de Marelas, and the Dominick’s bakery on York and Grand (sorta counts as a bakery).
Lilac was the median between the mexican bakeries (not very sweet on most of their items) and Kuppies (sugar/​sweetness like there’s no tomorrow). They’re very good, but more expensive than either Aracely’s or Azteca (5 minutes away), and excepting excellent Packzi’s on Fat Tuesday, not as good as Kuppie’s (also 5 minutes away). Good, but on a regular basis not my first choice in local area bakeries.

I was doing some research trying to find a local bakery that sold eclairs, ect. with real custard because my mom requested them for her birthday. I was happily surprised to find out that the Lilac Bakery (just a few blocks from my house) had real custard!
I went in on the morning of my mom’s birthday and I asked the women if I could have some Long Johns with custard in them. I told her that I use to go to this bakery all the time with my mom and grandma and it was my mom’s birthday and she really wanted real custard (blah blah blah). She informed me that they just had ones with out the custard in them but that she would be right back. About 5 minutes later she appeared with Long Johns that she JUST filled with custard for me and as she said «For your mom’s birthday». Seriously, my mom was so pleased and the custard was delicious. Thank you Lilac Bakery!

I’ve never been to this bakery before but if the last comment is from the owner or manager, you can believe I’ll never set foot in the place! You don’t want «her kind» there?! Then you don’t want my kind either. ‘Cause I’m the kind that read these reviews.

We went to this bakery the other morning as we were in the area, and love to try new bakeries. We got a box of assorted danishes and donuts. They were fresh and better than Dunkin, but we all felt there was definitely something missing. We finally decided it was flavor. All the donuts tasted the same. The raspberry jelly donut had a serious chemical taste, and the almond horn had no almond paste in in. This made me very sad. The cinnamon bun had hardly any cinnamon flavor and I could go on, but I think you have the picture. Will I go back, I doubt it and that is a shame because I believe that small bakeries are usually so much more than those in the supermarkets!

I was here late in the day, so most of the bread and all of the croissants were gone.
I ignored the cookies (thoughtfully boxed up and labeled «without nuts» or «with nuts») and got a couple of different cake/​pastry confections. They use a lot of chocolate mousse in those and it’s nice; the cake roll slices are very rich; the lemon bars chewy; and the cake/​mousse mice adorable. (Their cake base was perhaps a little dry.) The crescent almond cookies topped with chocolate mousse and chocolate frosting are decadent and recommended.