Diana’s Bakery and Donuts (formerly Efren’s Bakery)

A small Lake Forest bakery with Mexican-style cookies and cakes

Known as Efren’s Bakery when we visited, this small Lake Forest bakery rebranded to Diana’s Bakery and Donuts in 2024, though it preserved the same owners and baker it had for the prior 10 years. Before current management, it opened in 1999 as a Jewish bakery, later expanding to produce Mexican-style baked goods.

We’re sharing photos mostly because their cakes, cookies, and brownies looked pretty nice, and caught our eye when we were exploring other places in the plaza. Unfortunately, literally everything we tasted – Tres Leches and carrot cakes, brownie and cookie – was disappointing, as if it had been sitting too long, or never great to begin with. We haven’t returned, but the selection of items struck us as being distinctive enough from offerings at Mercado Gonzalez Northgate’s pasteleria that some people might want to explore it.

Stats

Price: $
Service: Counter
Open Since: 1999/2014

Addresses

24601 Raymond Way #7
Lake Forest, CA 92630

949.699.0930

Instagram: @dianasbakeryanddonutss