Moving Forward, Looking Back

We founded Crixa Cakes in 1998. We wanted to create a bakery that provided the wonderful not-too-sweet cakes and pastries that we grew up with.

Our goal was to provide high quality old world Hungarian, Russian, Central European, and American desserts to the San Francisco Bay Area region. At Crixa Cakes bakery and cafe, we offer these cakes and pastries scratch-baked on-site, as well as fine coffees and teas.

Welcome to Crixa

When I was growing up, my family would make trips into the City and the Russian bakeries there. That's bakeries — plural. There were several at that time. I don't remember their names, or even the names of the streets they were on, but to this day I can see their storefronts and remember the way they smelled. They were utterly unlike the American bakeshops. The smells were different, the pastries and cakes looked different. The sweets tasted different. All the sweets, the chocolates, hard candies, the buns, cookies, cakes — everything. The fruit tastes were more concentrated, the chocolate more intense and just different from American chocolate.