Our Story
Poppy Cake Baking Company is a neighborhood, full-service artisan bakery/cafe originally in Sierra Madre, CA. Open daily, Poppy Cake serves fresh, hand-crafted breads and pastries, quick lunches, and take-home dinners.
In July 2021, Poppy Cake Arcadia opened, focusing on coffee and espresso, fresh baked pastries, and quick sandwiches and salads.
Our selections are made in-house, from scratch. Our bread and pastries are baked fresh every morning and all of our bread is naturally leavened using sourdough starter. We don’t use any canola oil, shortening, or high fructose corn syrup, and we fry our chicken in rice bran oil — yes, fried chicken!
About the Owners
Poppy Cake Baking Company is owned and operated by Brittainy and Matthew Turnquist. Brittainy is originally from Sierra Madre; Matt from Jamestown, NY. They met at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York where Brittainy was studying baking and pastry, and Matt was studying culinary arts. After graduating from culinary school, they lived and worked in Napa Valley for five years before moving back to Los Angeles in 2010.