Hand-rolled conchas, bolillo crackling out of the oven at 6am, café de olla simmered with cinnamon sticks the size of your finger. Pickup or local delivery across the San Gabriel Valley.
Six collections built from recipes our family has carried since the 1920s. Each piece is hand-shaped the morning of — when we run out, we run out, and we start again at 4am tomorrow.
Soft enriched dough, hand-painted with a colored sugar shell scored into a seashell pattern. Best with café de olla in the morning, or split, toasted, with butter at 4pm.
A dozen-piece sampler chosen by whichever panadera is on the morning bench. Includes the gingerbread-pig marranitos our youngest customers fight over and the buttery cuernitos.
The crackling-crust loaves that build every torta in the Valley. Telera is split-top and pillow-soft for the deli case; bolillo is football-shaped and shatteringly crisp for dunking in caldo.
The round, sugar-crowned loaf with crossed bones our great-grandmother first shaped in Guadalajara. Made with our 4-generation orange-blossom water and a hint of anise. Family-size or single.
Flaky cuernitos rolled in cinnamon sugar and our jam-thumbprint galletas. The 4pm-coffee snack our regulars buy on Friday afternoons before driving home through Pasadena traffic.
Café de olla simmered all morning with piloncillo, cinnamon, and clove in a clay olla. Champurrado the consistency of velvet. Agua fresca rotating daily — jamaica, horchata, pepino-limón.
Sponge cake soaked overnight in three milks (evaporated, condensed, whole), topped with whipped cream and seasonal fruit. The birthday cake every Bautista child has had at least once.
Our cousin Esperanza's recipe — nixtamalized masa, slow-braised fillings, husk-steamed three hours. The platter our regulars order for Sunday family dinner. Reheats like new.
Piped into hot oil to order, tossed in cinnamon sugar, served in a paper cone. Available with cajeta or chocolate dipping sauce on the side. Perfect 20-minute walk-in snack.
Prices are illustrative for online previewing — final tickets are itemized at pickup or delivery confirmation. All baked goods contain wheat; allergen disclosures on every label.
We are a bakery. The name is a playful, layered Spanish tribute to who we are and where we are:
Put together: "the sanctuary of the Bautista family, on Mission Drive." Just dough, heat, and the same clay olla full of café de olla we've kept simmering since 2014.
Maria opened the doors at 422 W Mission Drive in San Gabriel in the spring of 2014, after a decade of baking from a commercial kitchen in Alhambra and selling at the Old Town farmers' market on Saturdays. The very first concha sold here went to a woman who said her abuela in Guadalajara made them exactly the same way, and cried in the doorway. We took that as confirmation we were on the right track.
Today the bakery employs eleven people, including Maria's daughter Camila, who learned to sugar-paint conchas before she could read. Our recipes still come from a leather notebook held together with twine, originally written by Maria's bisabuela Eulalia in pencil in 1932. We've added new things over the years — the tres leches recipe came from cousin Esperanza Bautista in Monterey Park, the cuernitos from a friendly retired pastry chef who lived next door — but the core list of pan dulce hasn't moved in four generations.
We mill our own piloncillo for café de olla. We grind our cinnamon weekly. We don't use shortcuts on the masa, even though it costs us an extra hour every morning. If a customer says "this tastes like home," we've done our job for the day.
Every loaf, every concha, every churro on the case followed the same path. There are no shortcuts in our morning timeline.
The dough mixers start before dawn. Bolillo dough gets a slow autolyse; concha dough is enriched with butter, sugar, and our family's egg-yolk wash. Both rest 90 minutes.
Every bolillo gets its football tip pinched by hand. Every concha gets its sugar shell rolled, scored, and crowned by a panadera. We never use molds for the seashell pattern.
The brick deck oven hits 460°F. First batch of bolillo crackles on the way out — the steam burst we open the door for is what gives them the shattering crust.
The case is loaded fresh. Café de olla has been simmering an hour. The first regular through the door is Don Hector, every weekday for eleven years, ordering two conchas and a 12oz.
From Alhambra to Pasadena to Monterey Park — three of the families who've made the bakery part of their week.
The conchas are the closest thing to my abuela's that I've found anywhere in California. Maria's vanilla-shell, slightly under-baked at the center, is exactly how it was on Sunday mornings in Guadalajara when I was small. I drive in from Alhambra every Saturday at 7am and I'd drive twice that far.
I ordered the tres leches for my daughter's quinceañera through the bakery's online form — Maria called me back personally to ask what fruit my daughter liked best. The cake showed up Friday afternoon, perfect, with a strawberry-and-cinnamon top. Forty-eight people ate it and four people asked for the bakery's number.
For Día de los Muertos last fall I picked up four pan de muerto loaves to put on our family ofrenda. Maria's pan de muerto is anise-forward the way my mother used to make it — most California shops over-sugar it and lose the citrus. I cried a little on the drive home from Mission Drive. Worth every dollar, every year.
Place an order online for Mission Drive pickup, or local delivery anywhere in San Gabriel, Alhambra, Pasadena, San Marino, or Monterey Park. Same-day cutoffs at 2pm; delivery windows finish by 7pm.
Walk in for a concha and café de olla. Or send us a note about a custom order, catering, or bulk weekend pickup.
Custom cakes, catering, or just a question — we read every message and Maria replies personally to custom orders.
Order Placed — thank you, vecino.
We've sent a confirmation note to your email. Maria or one of the team will give you a quick call within the hour to confirm details. Pan dulce will be ready, hand-rolled, and warm.
Effective date: April 28, 2026 · Last updated: April 28, 2026
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Welcome to iglesiabautistamisionera.org, the website for Iglesia Bautista Misionera Bakery LLC ("we," "our," or "us"), a Mexican-American artisan bakery operating at 422 W Mission Drive, San Gabriel, California 91776. By accessing this website or placing an order with us, you agree to these Terms of Service.
Iglesia Bautista Misionera is a brick-and-mortar bakery that bakes and sells Mexican pan dulce, café de olla, and related artisan baked goods. The Spanish-language name is a tribute to family lineage and the historic San Gabriel Mission neighborhood — see our About section for the full context.
You must be 18 or older, or have parental/guardian consent, to place an online order. By placing an order you represent that the information you provide is accurate.
Prices on the website are subject to change without notice and are not finalized until your order is confirmed. Same-day delivery cutoff is 2:00 PM Pacific Time. Custom orders (cakes, catering, large pre-orders) require lead time as specified per product. We reserve the right to refuse or cancel any order — for example, if an item is unexpectedly out of stock, if the requested address is outside our delivery zone, or if a payment is declined.
All baked goods are produced in a kitchen that handles wheat, eggs, dairy, tree nuts (almonds and walnuts), and seeds. We cannot guarantee any item is free from cross-contact with these allergens. Customers with severe allergies should call (626) 555-0142 before ordering. Once a baked good leaves our premises, we cannot guarantee freshness beyond the use-by window communicated at pickup or delivery (most pan dulce is best within 48 hours; bolillo within 24 hours).
Online payment is processed by a PCI-compliant third-party processor. We collect sales tax as required by California law. Refunds for unfulfilled or quality-issue orders are issued to the original payment method within 7 business days.
Pickup orders must be collected during the time window selected at checkout. Orders not picked up within 24 hours of the scheduled window may be redistributed to a local food shelter. Local delivery is provided to San Gabriel, Alhambra, Pasadena, South Pasadena, San Marino, Rosemead, Temple City, and Monterey Park. Delivery times are estimates only and may vary with traffic and weather.
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To the maximum extent permitted by California law, Iglesia Bautista Misionera Bakery LLC, its owners, employees, and contractors are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising out of your use of this website or our products. Our total liability for any direct damages will not exceed the amount you paid us in the 90 days preceding the claim.
The website and the products are provided "as is" and "as available." While we do everything possible to keep menus accurate, ingredient sourcing and seasonal availability can change. Photographic representations of baked goods are illustrative; hand-made products vary slightly in appearance.
Any dispute arising from these Terms or from your use of the website shall first be resolved through good-faith negotiation. If unresolved within 60 days, the dispute shall be submitted to binding arbitration in Los Angeles County, California, under the rules of the American Arbitration Association. Each party bears its own costs unless the arbitrator decides otherwise.
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Mail: Iglesia Bautista Misionera Bakery LLC, Attn: Legal, 422 W Mission Drive, San Gabriel, CA 91776
Phone: (626) 555-0142
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Iglesia Bautista Misionera Bakery is committed to making both our brick-and-mortar shop and our website iglesiabautistamisionera.org accessible to everyone, regardless of ability.
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Our Mission Drive shop has a single front-step ramp and a wheelchair-accessible entrance. The order counter has a lower section. Our team is happy to assist with reaching items from the case, reading labels aloud, or carrying purchases to the curb.
If you encounter any barrier or have suggestions, please email accessibility@iglesiabautistamisionera.org or call (626) 555-0142. We respond to accessibility feedback within 5 business days.