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What Happened to Baking on the Bayou Cakery After Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 9 Ventress, Louisiana

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Baking on the Bayou Cakery is listed closed on Google, reviewed by our team on September 15, 2026 and cross-checked against bakingonthebayou.com; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact with the business.

What the source shows: Google's business profile carries a permanently-closed flag; the bakery's own site remains frozen on a 2019 notice. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Baking on the Bayou is a bakery and cake shop at 13797 Ventress Road in Ventress, Louisiana. Best Thing I Ever Ate featured the bakery's custom-cake work in the episode "One of a Kind" (Season 9, Episode 17). The bakery's own website, bakingonthebayou.com, remained resolvable as of this check on 2026-09-07 and continued to display an "About" page, while a separate directory result flagged the business as permanently closed without naming a specific dated source. Google's business profile for the bakery carries a permanently-closed flag, and the bakery's own website remains frozen on a 2019 notice. Census geocoding for 13797 Ventress Road returned a match on 2026-09-07, so coordinates are recorded from that source. No further search beyond the one budgeted for this record was used.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 9

Episode 17
Air date not confirmed
Title: One of a Kind · What was featured: Custom cakes and Southern-style bakery treats at Baking on the Bayou

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. bakingonthebayou.com https://www.bakingonthebayou.com/
  2. thebestthingieverate.com https://www.thebestthingieverate.com/Baking-on-the-Bayou-Cakery-Ventress-LA
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Record btiea-0728 · checked by Cal Marchetti.