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Helen Bernhard Bakery

Northeast

Century-old Portland cake shop that began as a neighbor's home-baking side business

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Helen Bernhard began baking cakes to sell to neighbors from her family's home in 1924, growing the side income into a Portland institution now run from NE Broadway. The century-old shop still turns out scratch-made cakes, pastries, and doughnuts.