Sweet Tooth: 10 Anime For Lovers Of Baking (2024)

When looking for anime about cooking, it doesn't take that long to discover—but what about baking? Cooking and baking both focus on different things, with cooking featuring dishes that are generally alright to eat on the daily, and baking featuring sweets.

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Although there is some cooking anime that focus on baking as well, there is less when it comes to whipping up confectionaries such as cookies and cake. However, do not fret as there are tons of anime that have a focus on baking. From Gourmet Girl Grafitti to Bonjour♪Sweet Love Patisserie, here is anime sure to satisfy one's sweet tooth.

10 Gourmet Girl Grafitti

Gourmet Girl Grafittifocuses more on the cute girls cooking and eating delicious food than the aspect of cooking, but unlike most cooking-themed anime, the series features more confectionaries.

The series is more about being happy and eatingdelicious food, as the protagonist Ryo Machiko cannot cook as well as her cousin who lives in Tokyo, Kirin Morino. Besides onigiri and pizza, fans will also have a look at sweets such as cake and mochi.

9 Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card

Cardcaptor Sakuraisn't the first thing to pop into someone's mind when thinking about anime about baking, but Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Cardmanages to be a magical girl and baking anime rolled into one during the early episodes of the series.

Before the main threat against Sakura has been revealed, she goes on a couple of dates with her boyfriend, Syaoran Li. Together with Tomoyo, Sakura bakes confectionaries for him to try outーand the recipes are told so fans can do it step-by-step like them.

8 Bonjour♪Sweet Love Patisserie

Bonjour♪Sweet Love Patisseriefollows a highschool girl named Sayuri Haruno who wishes to open up a pastry shop of her own. To achieve her dreams, she attends an elite school surrounding confectionaries called Fleurir on a scholarship, and she happens to meet four men all specializing in different things surrounding baking.

Despite the story not meant to captivate everyone, the anime whips up some delicious French pastries, from Orange Chiboust to L'ecrin Chocolat.

7 New Cooking Master Boy

New Cooking Master Boy is the continuation ofCooking Master Boy,an anime that aired during the 90sーhowever, that should not deter people from watching it. This was the firstFood Wars!

Pai is the son of the Fairy of Cuisine who wants to follow in his mother's footsteps. He plans to do this by becoming the best cook in the worldーand that also includes him whipping up some tasty desserts. After all, how can he become number one without creating at least one dessert?

6 Ristorante Paradiso

Ristorante Paradisofollows Nicoletta, a young woman who leaves the countryside and to Rome to work at her mother's peculiar restarauntーone filled with older men who wear glasses.

AtCasetta Dell'orso, the anime may be steep in delicious Italian food, but there are tons of sweets included, as well. Despite the anime and romance being a slow-burn, the food is definitely not.

5 Wakako-Zake

Wakako-Zakeis an interesting blend of food and slice-of-life. Whenenver Wakako Murasaki has a tiring day at work, she heads to different restaurants and bars to blow off steam and stress.

The main focus is Wakako finding food from food stalls, restaurants, or pubs and pairing it with the perfect alcohol. Who knowsーperhaps she even pairs one with a delectable sweet, too?

4 Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast For Spirits

Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast For Spiritsfocuses on Aoi Tsubaki, a young woman who was spirited away by an Ayakashi named Odanna.

While in this new world, Aoi decides to work at his inn in Tenjin'ya instead of marrying him, and she happens to be a great cook. From Japanese cuisine to delectable desserts, this series is for those who wish for more fantasy in their anime.

3 Food Wars! Shokugeki No Soma

Food Wars! Shokugeki no Somais perhaps the most well-known cooking-themed shounen anime, but it does have a considerable amount of baking it in, as well. Despite baking not being the main focus, Soma Yukihira and the cast have whipped upsome desserts.

From the infamous Chocolate Covered Checkerboard Cake by Momo Akanegakubo to the Lemon Curd Italiano Semifreddo by Takumi Aldini, these are sure to pique fans' interest.

2 Freshly Baked!! Ja-Pan

Freshly Baked!! Ja-Panfollows Kazuma Azuma, a boy who wishes to create a national bread for Japan, lovingly named "Ja-Pan"ーa pun on the name of the country and the word for "bread" in Japanese, being "pan"ーby baking various kinds of bread.

What could be more simple, yet enjoyable, than baking something as great as bread? He works at the bread-making chain Pantasia and possesses the "Hands of the Sun" that allows him to ferment dough faster than other people.

1 Dream-Colored Pâtissière

Dream-Colored Pâtissière follows Ichigo Amano as she does her best to become a full-fledged pâtissier, with the help of her sweets fairy, Vanilla. Despite the series having a fantasy vibe to it, the way the baking occurs is all up to a human's hard work and talent.

Although she doesn't have much talent when it comes to baking, she possesses the ability of having great tastebuds because of all the sweets she eats. Together with the Sweets PrincesーMakoto Kashino, Satsuki Hanabusa, and Sennosuke AndouーIchigo does her best to become a well-respected and renowned pâtissière by her classmates.

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