Beckers Bakery — Restaurant in Manhattan Beach

These heart cookies with the pink frosting were literally my lifeblood in the early 2000s as a young chimp running around the AMS Elementary School.

I came back here for the first time in a minute this weekend, now a full grown orangutan, and can confirm these heart cookies with the pink frosting ($1.50) are still literal crack cocaine. I really don't even mess with frosting on cookies usually, but Becker's is just different.

I paired an americano with my cookie, as they now have a Hi-Fi Espresso in here which I think slangs some of the best espresso around. It makes me feel like I'm in Europe idk how else to describe it.

I almost bought a shirt, but I have SO many shirts already so I opted against it. However, when I was doing my due diligence for this review a sense of regret shot through my spine like it was an epidural when I saw Beckers has been around since 1942. I had NO idea that Beckers has been around since Joseph Stalin was the Time Magazine Person of the Year. Still so crazy he was Time's Person of the Year.......

The business is still in the family after 3 generations (Shoutout to the OG Harry Becker for kicking it off), which really makes me want to go back and buy a shirt. I love places passed from generation to generation. No wonder these heart cookies with the pink frosting still taste exactly the same as they did when I was just a little chimp.

Some free game for y'all, if you go to someone's party in Manhattan Beach and they don't have a box of Becker's cookies, they are a big fat phony..... ahaha I'm playin but actually OGs will always have a box of Beckers for a function.

I should mention that they also have a deli here that people love, but I've really only ever been here for the cookies. You know why I'm here.

As the money and botox continues to move into Manhattan Beach, this is one of the 5 or 6 places left keeping the soul of what I knew as a small local beach town alive.

THANK YOU BECKERS NEVER SWITCH UP! I'M COMIN BACK FOR THE SHIRT!

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I used to say I'm not into cupcakes, but thanks to Yelp (with an expanding waistline to prove it), I am very much a cupcake fiend. If I find out about a place that is known for their cupcakes, I AM THERE. I actually found out AFTER-the-fact that this was a Cupcake Wars winner, and as much as I watch that show, I don't recall seeing them. When you walk into this small storefront, you are hit with a bizillion cupcakes staring you in the face, with about 20 different flavors to choose from. While we didn't get one of each, we came close. We did opt for the mini size (so we could justify the multitude of flavors we wanted), but I have to say, the ONLY ones I cared for.......and that had any appreciable flavor recognition to what their names were.....were the chocolate raspberry mousse, the tres leches spicy mango (my favorite), and the honey bourbon (all of which were under their "specialty" cupcakes). Honestly, everything else was just average. Nothing bad.......just average. They also sell macarons, but we...

This place is made of awesome. Becker's Bakery has been in business since 1942! There's a reason for that. The current owner takes an incredible Delight in decorating cakes himself. Every one of them is a masterpiece, bright, brilliant colors, tons of delicious frosting, and more than a little whimsy.

I ordered a birthday cake for my daughter, complete with a image of an anime she likes and printed on the top of the cake. It looked flawless. I asked them to indulge themselves in terms of decorating the rest of the cake, and they did not disappoint. Bright, vibrant colors, clever designs, it was a masterpiece.

The frosted cookies they have are a lot of fun too, and they are also delicious.

Highly recommended. If you want something fun and colorful and delicious, Becker's Bakery is the...