The Baker And The Cakemaker

So many memories associated with this building and all the bakeries that have graced us with their divine baked goods. I loved going there as a child and high schooler to get mint chocolate brownies for 35 cents at Hilda’s. Then New Dawn Bakery was my favorite place to go when I was diagnosed celiacs and the most delicious lemon squares could be found there. Today I made a trip to The Baker & the Cakemaker while in town visiting Auburn and was pleasantly surprised to find gluten free brownies, blueberry muffins, cheese puffs and even 8” chocolate raspberry vegan gluten free cake! Amazing texture, moist and delicious! There is a chance of cross contamination though since it is a shared display case. Only the GF/vegan cake was gluten free and dairy free. Alice comes from a successful restrauranteur family and we went to high school together so it was cool to see her in her element there! I’m excited to order the vegan gluten free cake - just need 2 days notice!

What a quaint and friendly bakery! We were hosting a Harry Potter themed birthday party and I wanted a cake to replicate the one from the first movie. I spoke with Alice at the bakery and they were happy to make it happen! We ordered the vanilla bean latte cake in the custom design and it exceeded our expectations! They followed the inspo picture to a T! The birthday girl loved it too. Thank you, Baker and the Cakemaker!

I ordered the pesto sandwich with eggplant and would highly recommend it for it those looking for a vegetarian option. I ate their bakers cookie and it was really good. I drank their brown butter latte and it was ok, slightly better than a regular latte. I am interested in coming back and trying a couple of their cakes. From the display they look delicious

Great lunch stop, more of a California cafe for loaves and lunch fare (and likely homey pastries) than artisanal bakeshop. Got a delicious pesto sandwich chock full of veg and roasted eggplant. Pesto sauce was moist and seedy. Panzanella salad with squash, shiitake, daikon was also great, although more greens than bread, and the Asian-inspired flavours were delicious.