Directory · Home bakeries

Home bakeries and microbakeries in California

691 home bakeries across 284 cities.

Browse by city

Cottage food law

Cottage food law in California

California Homemade Food Act (Class A / Class B) + MEHKO home restaurants. 2026 caps: $88,878 (Class A, self-certified) / $177,756 (Class B) — adjusted every January; county registration is valid statewide.

Read the full California guide — paths, fees, labels →

We are informational, not advisory. Read straight from the source:

Sourdough runs through California's home kitchens like a current. Naturally leavened loaves, fresh-milled grains, weekly preorders that close on a Sunday for a Friday porch pickup: that's the spine of this page, from the coast through the inland valleys to the Sierra foothills. Base Camp Bakery works organic California grains out of Berkeley and sets up at Grand Lake and Kensington on weekend mornings. Coastal Rise Sourdough bakes its naturally leavened goods to order in Half Moon Bay. The pattern repeats town by town, a home micro-bakery or a farmstand at the end of a driveway, each one a neighbor selling what they baked that week.

What keeps California from reading as one long sourdough list is the range of what else gets made here. Yahshi Bakes in Oakland folds spices from Ethiopia and Jamaica into its pastries. Cookie Crewe bakes Mexican-inspired cookies out of a home kitchen in Los Angeles, and the bios run on from there: Korean small-batch bakes in San Francisco, Asian-French pastry, Japanese rare cheesecake, Swiss bread baked some Saturdays but not all, Filipino macarons in the Bay. Sugar cookies, cinnamon rolls, hand pies, banana bread, gluten-free and vegan corners for the people who need them.

No single metro owns this. Los Angeles and the Bay carry the most porch shops, but Sacramento, San Diego, San Jose, and a long tail of valley and foothill towns each hold their own bakers. Every page here is owner-managed, with a correction email and neighbor reports keeping it honest rather than a promise that someone checks each one. Pay direct, pick it up at the porch, and if you bake from your home in California, it stays always free to list.

Featured home bakeries in California

Smaller home bakeries scenes

Smaller scenes — browse them now; they join search once they reach 5 home bakeries. As more register, the directory grows.

Live "open now" is coming in California

These porch shops can’t show live availability yet. As bakers and makers claim their listings, you’ll see an Open badge here in real time. Tap a card to message the seller directly.

Frequently asked

How many home bakeries are in California?
We list 691 home bakeries across 284 cities in California today. The number grows as new sellers register and as we add ones we have found from public sources.
How does The Front Porch find home bakeries in California?
A mix of public sources and self-registration. Operators can claim their own listing in two minutes; anyone can ask to be removed with one click.
Do home bakeries in California do porch pickup?
Yes. Pickup at the porch, pay direct. The Front Porch helps you find them; you pay the seller directly at the porch.

Other home bakeries nearby