Smith's Bakeries
Best Bakery in Bakersfield · CA
Bakersfield's birthday cake bakery
Smith's Bakeries has been Bakersfield's hometown bakery since 1945, a family business known for its cakes, cookies, doughnuts, and breads baked fresh across a handful of neighborhood shops. Generations of Bakersfield birthdays and weddings have run on Smith's cakes.
The Union Avenue shop remains the flagship — a glass-case bakery counter where the doughnut-and-coffee morning crowd gives way to a steady trade in custom cakes and old-fashioned pastries.
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2025 Centurion Award
Best Bakery in Bakersfield Bakersfield, CA · Awarded under the 2025 evaluation View the 2025 award →Awards run one calendar year and renew only if the business clears the bar again. Selection is by published criteria, never for sale.
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