Hayward Bakery Named One Of Bay Area's Best New Bakeries

HAYWARD, CA — The East Bay Times named Max’s Cakes in Hayward one of the Bay Area’s 10 best new bakeries.

"This classic, family-owned bakery opened five weeks ago and has already added much-needed pizzazz to downtown Hayward," said the EBT enthusiastically. "Horchata cheesecake and café de olla and buñelo cupcakes, nods to baker Max Soto‘s Mexican-American heritage, line the pastry case alongside cookies and brick-sized slices of his Instagram-famous layer cakes. Those cakes come in five flavors, including coconut cream, burnt almond and confetti, and are already proving to be top sellers."

The newspaper also noted that Soto appeared on Buddy Valastro’s “Big Time Bake” in 2020 and became the youngest contestant ever to win a “Food Network” competition.

Find Max’s Cakes at 1007 B St. in Hayward. It is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, and it is close Sunday and Monday.

Max’s Cakes also just got a nice write-up in SFist.

The East Bay appeared prominently on the list of best new bakeries, scoring seven of the 10 slots. The others are in Fremont, Emeryville, Danville, Walnut Creek, and two in Oakland.