Green House Bakery

One of the finest bakeries in the Bay Area is hidden in an Oakland home. Green House Bakery has been quietly impressing hordes with fresh doughnuts, expertly baked pastries and a petite-but-fearsome passion fruit pie. The crust is made with graham crackers and coconut flakes while the radiant lilikoi filling mirrors a key lime pie, merging condensed milk with passion fruit juice. It’s wildly tangy, sweet and creamy but not cloying thanks to multiple acidic elements, like whipped vanilla bean labne. This pie is seasonal, usually available from September through October, but you can preorder it for Thanksgiving and Christmas. (Outside of the season, the pie on offer might be lemon strawberry cream.) The home bakery announces “bake sale” dates on Instagram or its website. These bake sales usually happen on weekends on a first come, first served basis, and customers line up and wait for hours. Keep an eye out for preorder announcements, as orders fill up quickly. Thanksgiving preorders start Tuesday, Nov. 8. C.H.

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