9 Best Free Bakery WordPress Themes for Cake Shops & Cafés 2026
The best free bakery WordPress themes are Astra’s Cake Shop starter for a shop that takes orders, Bakery and Pastry if you want a dedicated bakery theme with nothing to configure, and Bakes and Cakes for a small bakery that just needs a menu and an address. There are 9 free themes here and 5 paid ones, and every one is shown running a real bakery, cake shop or café demo.
A bakery site has a short list of jobs and it is not the one most themes optimise for. People arrive wanting three things: what you make, when you are open, and where you are. Everything else — the story, the blog, the Instagram feed — is decoration around those. Themes that put opening hours and a map within reach of the first screen beat prettier ones that bury them, and the entries below say which do it.
Related roundups: food and restaurant themes if you serve as well as bake, and food delivery themes if orders go out rather than customers coming in.
Quick picks
- Best starter: Astra — Cake Shop imports a finished bakery with a shop
- Best dedicated free theme: Bakery and Pastry — a bakery theme rather than a business theme in pink
- Best for a small bakery: Bakes and Cakes — menu, hours and address with nothing to set up
- Best for online orders: OceanWP — its Bakery demo ships with a working shop
- Colorlib pick: Illdy — a one-page menu, gallery and contact layout
- Best paid bakery theme: Cake Bakery — the category’s best seller by some distance
Top picks at a glance
Table of contents — all 14 themes
Quick comparison: the free bakery themes
| Theme | Price | Best for | Standout | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astra | Free / Pro | A bakery that sells online | Cake Shop starter with WooCommerce | Sep 2026 |
| Bakery and Pastry | Free | A dedicated bakery site | Purpose-built, 2,000 installs | May 2026 |
| Bakes and Cakes | Free / Pro | A small bakery or home baker | Menu, hours and address ready | Feb 2026 |
| OceanWP | Free / Pro | Taking orders online | Bakery demo with a working cart | Sep 2026 |
| Kadence | Free / Pro | A café or coffee roaster | Coffee Shop and Coffee Roaster starters | Jul 2026 |
| Illdy | Free | A one-page bakery site | Menu, gallery and contact in one scroll | Aug 2026 |
We tested it: free bakery theme speed
How we tested: we installed each free theme on the same clean WordPress site with identical content and no extra plugins, then measured the homepage with Google Lighthouse on mobile. Bakery sites live on photographs of food, and most visits are someone standing on a pavement checking whether you are open. The lighter the theme, the more of that budget goes to your pictures rather than the framework around them.
| Theme | Page weight | Requests | Lighthouse | LCP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kadence | 328 KB | 17 | 96/100 | 2.5s |
| Astra | 425 KB | 14 | 92/100 | 3.2s |
| Zakra | 451 KB | 17 | 91/100 | 3.1s |
| OceanWP | 802 KB | 29 | 72/100 | 5.3s |
| Illdy | 1086 KB | 38 | 65/100 | 6.8s |
| Bakery and Pastry | 1136 KB | 18 | 63/100 | 6.5s |
| Restaurant Recipe | 1213 KB | 34 | 66/100 | 7.4s |
| Restaurant and Cafe | 2246 KB | 28 | 56/100 | 12.3s |
| Bakes And Cakes | 2281 KB | 28 | 56/100 | 13s |
Free themes built for bakeries and cake shops
These were written for bakeries rather than adapted to them, so the menu, the opening hours and the gallery of what you make are already where they should be. Note the trade-off in our speed table, though: the dedicated bakery themes are the heaviest here, because everything that makes them feel finished — sliders, galleries, icon fonts — has to load before your photographs do.
1. Bakery and Pastry
Why we like it: The most installed dedicated bakery theme on WordPress.org, and the one it ranks first for the query.
Bakery and Pastry is written for the trade rather than adapted from a business theme, so the product displays, the menu and the shop-front feel are the design rather than an afterthought. Two thousand bakeries use it and nobody has left a review yet, which is worth knowing but says nothing bad about the theme.
✅ Pros: purpose-built for bakeries, the largest dedicated install base, quick to set up ⚠️ Cons: no ratings at all yet, little use outside food, and it carries more weight than a framework plus a starter
2. Bakes and Cakes
Why we like it: Fifteen reviews at 4.7 on a theme built for exactly one thing: a small bakery with a short menu.
RaraTheme’s Bakes and Cakes gives you the products, the opening hours and the address arranged without any work, which is the whole requirement for most single-shop bakeries. It is genuinely small at a few hundred sites, and it has gone a little longer between releases than the frameworks here.
✅ Pros: a finished bakery site out of the box, well reviewed for its size, nothing to configure ⚠️ Cons: a small user base, updated less often than the frameworks, and among the heaviest themes in our test
3. Restaurant and Cafe
Why we like it: Built for places people sit down in, which is most bakeries once the coffee machine arrives.
If your bakery also serves, this handles the half that pure bakery themes miss: a proper menu structure, opening hours and a booking or enquiry path. RaraTheme keeps it updated and it is well reviewed for a theme of its size.
✅ Pros: real menu layouts, covers the café side, solid rating ⚠️ Cons: less shop-focused than the bakery-specific themes, a small install base, and heavy in our speed test
4. Restaurant Recipe
Why we like it: A 4.9 rating, on the only theme here that treats recipes as content rather than decoration.
Plenty of bakers build an audience by publishing what they make. Restaurant Recipe gives recipes their own layouts alongside the menu and the shop details, so the blog is a reason to visit rather than an empty tab in the navigation.
✅ Pros: excellent rating, recipe layouts included, recently updated ⚠️ Cons: a small user base, and the design is conventional
Free frameworks with a bakery or café starter
General-purpose themes that import a finished bakery. They are lighter and better maintained than the dedicated themes, and they will still be useful if the shop becomes a café, or the café becomes a roastery.
5. Astra
Why we like it: The Cake Shop starter imports a finished bakery with a working shop attached.
This is the shortest path from nothing to a bakery that can take money. The starter arrives with product displays, an about page and the shop wired up, on the most installed theme on WordPress — so it will still be maintained when you add the second shop.
✅ Pros: a finished cake shop with WooCommerce, by far the largest community, light ⚠️ Cons: check the starter is on the free tier before planning around it, and custom cake orders still need a form plugin
6. OceanWP
Why we like it: A free Bakery demo with a working cart, on a theme with nearly six thousand reviews behind it.
OceanWP’s bakery demo is set up as a shop rather than a brochure: products, a cart and an account area, with the bakery styling on top. For a bakery whose orders arrive by phone at the moment, it is the most direct route to changing that.
✅ Pros: a free bakery demo with ecommerce, enormous user base, extends easily ⚠️ Cons: the more useful shop extras sit in paid extensions, and it runs heavier than the leanest frameworks
7. Kadence
Why we like it: Two separate coffee starters — a shop and a roastery — and the lightest theme in our test.
Kadence covers the drinking half of the trade properly, with one starter for a café and another for a roaster selling beans. Its free header builder also means the opening hours and phone number can sit in the top bar where people look for them.
✅ Pros: two coffee starters, lightest in our test, free header and footer builders ⚠️ Cons: no bakery-specific starter, so a cake shop needs adapting, and its block library is another system to learn
8. Zakra
Why we like it: 599 reviews at 4.9, and free header and footer builders to put your opening hours where people look.
Zakra’s Cafe starter is a straightforward café site, and the reason to pick it over a prettier one is the free header builder: opening hours, phone number and address can go in the top bar without an upgrade, which is exactly what a walk-in business needs.
✅ Pros: free header and footer builders, very well rated, light ⚠️ Cons: the wider starter library sits behind Zakra Pro, and there is no bakery-specific starter
Serving food as well as baking it? Our food and restaurant theme roundup covers menus and reservations in more depth, and the full free collection covers everything else.
One-page themes for a small bakery
For a single shop with a short menu, one scrolling page carrying the products, a gallery and the address does the whole job.
9. Illdy
Why we like it: A one-page layout with gallery, services and contact sections, which is the whole structure a small bakery needs.
One scroll: what you make, pictures of it, where you are and when you are open. Illdy is built from exactly those blocks, and its counter section works nicely for the numbers bakeries like quoting. Its demo is a general one-page layout rather than a bakery, so look at the structure here, not the sample copy.
✅ Pros: the right shape for a single-shop site, gallery and contact sections included, maintained by us ⚠️ Cons: no bakery demo of its own, no menu or ordering templates, the lowest rating here, and heavier than the modern frameworks
Paid bakery & cake shop WordPress themes
Paying is worth it here when you sell rather than just advertise. The paid bakery themes handle custom cake orders — flavour, size, tiers, collection date — which is fiddly to build from a contact form, and they come with the food photography treatments that make a small menu look like a shop worth visiting. Every theme below has a working vendor demo we opened. Sales figures come from our marketplace research; ThemeForest now blocks automated checks, so we have not re-verified them today.
10. Cake Bakery
Why we like it: The best-selling bakery theme by a distance, and the one built around taking cake orders.
Custom cake ordering is the thing free themes cannot do: flavour, size, tiers, message, collection date. Cake Bakery handles that flow properly, alongside the menu and gallery layouts, which is why it has sold more than four thousand copies.
✅ Pros: the category’s sales leader, custom order flow built in, complete bakery layouts ⚠️ Cons: the design has been around a while, and it is heavier than a framework plus a starter
11. Justshop
Why we like it: Built in Elementor, so the menu and seasonal ranges are yours to change without a developer.
Justshop pairs a cake-shop design with WooCommerce and Elementor, which matters for a business whose range changes with the seasons. Its rating is the best of the big sellers here, and the layouts look like a shop rather than a restaurant.
✅ Pros: highest rated of the big sellers, Elementor-native, WooCommerce ordering ⚠️ Cons: you are committed to Elementor, and it is a large theme to learn
12. Baker
Why we like it: The most contemporary-looking of the paid bakery themes, from a vendor that keeps its work current.
Most bakery themes lean rustic. Baker is cleaner and more typographic, which suits a modern patisserie better than script fonts and chalkboards. Qode Interactive maintain it properly, and the food photography treatments are the best here.
✅ Pros: current design, strong food photography layouts, well-supported vendor ⚠️ Cons: the most expensive of the three main options, and less order machinery than Cake Bakery
13. Dolcino
Why we like it: Aimed at patisseries specifically, where the product is delicate and the photography has to carry it.
Dolcino is the boutique option: fewer, larger product images, more white space and typography that suits pastry rather than bread. If your window display is the reason people come in, this is the theme that reproduces that feeling online.
✅ Pros: genuinely boutique design, excellent product photography treatment, current ⚠️ Cons: the fewest sales of the paid themes here, and too refined for a rustic bakery
14. Divi + Bakery layout pack
Why we like it: Free Bakery and Bake Shop layout packs, on a licence covering every site you build.
A bakery’s site is really a shop window, and Divi lets you arrange it exactly as you want rather than within someone else’s template. The bakery packs give you a starting point, and the unlimited licence makes sense if you look after sites for more than one local business.
✅ Pros: two free bakery layout packs, full design control, unlimited sites ⚠️ Cons: no ordering machinery of its own, and it adds page weight
What to look for in a bakery WordPress theme
- Opening hours and address beat everything else. Most visits are someone deciding whether to walk over. If your hours and location are not visible without scrolling, the prettiest theme in this list is still the wrong one.
- Decide whether you are selling or advertising. A shop that takes orders needs WooCommerce and a theme that handles it — Astra’s Cake Shop or OceanWP’s Bakery demo. A shop that just wants to be found needs a menu and a map, and Bakes and Cakes will do that in an afternoon.
- Custom cake orders are the hard part. Flavour, size, tiers, inscription, collection date: that is a configurable product, not a contact form. Free themes do not handle it; paid bakery themes like Cake Bakery do, and that is the honest case for paying here.
- Your photographs are the whole design. Food sites live or die on the pictures, so start with a light theme and spend the weight on images. Shoot in daylight, export at the size you display, and let WordPress serve responsive versions.
- Check the menu on a phone. A menu that becomes a wall of text on a small screen is the most common failure in this category. Open the demo’s menu page on your own phone before you commit.
- An Instagram feed is not a website. Embedding your feed is fine, but it loads slowly and disappears if the plugin breaks. Keep the products, prices and hours on your own pages, and treat the feed as decoration.
- A dedicated bakery theme is a shorter build and a shorter life. The dedicated themes here are quicker to launch; the frameworks are lighter and will still be maintained if the bakery becomes a café. Choose knowingly rather than by which demo looks nicest.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best free bakery WordPress theme?
Astra with its Cake Shop starter if you want to sell online, because it imports a finished bakery with WooCommerce already wired up. Bakery and Pastry if you would rather have a dedicated bakery theme, and Bakes and Cakes if you run a single small shop and want the menu, hours and address ready without any setup.
Can I sell cakes with a free theme?
Yes. WooCommerce is free and works with every theme here, and Astra’s Cake Shop starter and OceanWP’s Bakery demo both arrive with the shop configured. What free themes do not handle well is a custom cake order with flavour, size and tiers — that needs a product add-ons plugin or a paid bakery theme.
Do I need a page builder?
Not necessarily. Kadence and Zakra build their starters from blocks in the standard editor, and Astra works with either blocks or a builder. If you are setting this up yourself with no experience, a block-based starter is the gentler route.
How do I show opening hours and a map?
Both come from blocks or a small plugin rather than the theme. Put the hours in the header or the top of the front page — Kadence and Zakra both let you do that in the free header builder — and embed a map on the contact page. These two details drive more visits than anything else on a bakery site.
Is a free theme good enough for a bakery?
For most single shops, yes. The free starters cover the menu, gallery, hours and even the shop. Pay when you need real ordering machinery — configurable cake orders, delivery slots, deposits — which is where Cake Bakery and Justshop earn their price.
What about a café rather than a bakery?
Kadence has Coffee Shop and Coffee Roaster starters and Zakra has a Cafe starter, both of which import a finished café site. Restaurant and Cafe is the dedicated option if you have tables and want a proper menu structure.
Can I publish recipes as well?
Yes, and it is a good way to be found. Restaurant Recipe is the theme here that treats recipes as a real content type with their own layouts. On any other theme, a recipe plugin will add the structured data that gets recipes shown properly in search results.
How do I keep the site fast with so many photographs?
Start light — our table shows which themes those are — then handle the images: export at display size, use modern formats, and let WordPress serve responsive versions. A single uncompressed photograph of a wedding cake can outweigh the entire theme.
Which one should you use?
If you want to sell online, install Astra and import the Cake Shop starter — it is the shortest route to a bakery that can take money, on a theme that will still be maintained in five years. If you just need to be found, Bakes and Cakes gives you the menu, the hours and the address in an afternoon, and Bakery and Pastry is the bigger dedicated option. For a café or roastery, take Kadence’s coffee starters, which are also the lightest thing we measured. And if custom cake orders are your business, this is the point where paying makes sense: Cake Bakery handles the flavour-size-tiers-date flow that no free theme does.
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