Best Bakery in Bakersfield · Bakersfield, CA
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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Baking for Bakersfield since 1945, Smith's is the hometown bakery behind generations of the city's birthday and wedding cakes.
Yes — Smith's Bakeries is the 2025 Centurion Award winner for Best Bakery in Bakersfield, a verified, criteria-based award. Named best bakery in Bakersfield for 2025 for eight decades of cakes, cookies, and pink champagne cake at Kern County celebrations.
Smith's Bakeries is in Bakersfield, CA.
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