Angelito's Bakery — Tres Leches, Made to Order in Sunset Park

A Sunset Park Bakery

Hand-baked Tres Leches, made the day of your celebration — for the birthdays, baptisms, and quinceañeras that ask for something more than supermarket cake.

Our Story

A small kitchen, on 5th Avenue.

We're a family-run bakery tucked between the panaderías and the carnicerías of Sunset Park — where most days, the line out the door is for one thing.

Our Tres Leches isn't a recipe we copied. It's the one our family brought from home, refined over decades of weddings, communions, and "una porción más, por favor." We don't bake in advance. We don't freeze layers. We make each cake the day it's eaten, because that's the only way the milks taste right.

— from the Angelito's kitchen

Tres Leches — sponge soaked in three milks, layered with cream and fresh berries — Layered Fresa Tres Leches · soaked overnight, finished with cream and berries

The Tres Leches

Three milks. One cake.

Soft sponge baked golden in the morning. Cooled, then bathed all afternoon in evaporated milk, condensed milk, and whole milk — until the cake drinks every drop. Finished with fresh whipped cream the hour you pick it up.

That's it. No buttercream rosettes piped to disguise dry sponge. No frozen layers thawed in the case. Just the cake the way abuela would make it, if abuela had a commercial mixer and a fridge full of milk.

"The first time my husband had it, he said: this is the cake from his mother's house. That's all we needed to hear."

Flavors on the Counter

ClásicoPlain
FresaStrawberry
ChocolateCocoa
CocoCoconut
PiñaPineapple
CajetaBurnt caramel
NuezWalnut

Three-tier custom cake with fresh berries — for weddings and quinceañeras — For her quinceañera · three tiers, fresh berries, sugar dust

Custom Orders

Cakes for the moments that count.

A round for two, a sheet for seventy. We'll write the name, match the colors, and have it ready the morning of.

Birthdays

From a six-inch family round to a half-sheet for the whole block. Candles, message, photo print if you want one.

Quinceañeras

Tiered Tres Leches with fresh flowers and sugar pearls — in the colors of her dress.

Baptisms & Communions

Soft pastels, hand-piped names, gentle decoration for the day they're welcomed.

Anniversaries

The cake from the wedding, made smaller — for the two of you, every year after.

Graduations

School colors, the cap, the name in icing. We've made these for the kids since they were in pre-K.

Just Because

Some Tuesdays need a slice. No occasion required. Stop in, take one home.

How We Bake

A day from order to slice.

Our cakes are made fresh — never in advance. The milks need overnight to soak, the cream goes on the hour you pick it up. We bake to your day.

Day 1 · Morning

You Call

Place the Order

Call us or stop in. Tell us the date, the flavor, the colors, the message.

Day 1 · Afternoon

We Bake

Sponge in the Oven

The sponge goes in. While it cools we whisk the three milks.

Overnight

It Drinks

The Three Milks

The cake bathes overnight in the fridge, soaking up every drop.

Day 2 · Morning

You Pick Up

Finished, Fresh

We finish with cream and decoration the hour you walk in.

Come Find Us

On 5th Avenue, where Sunset Park shops on Saturday.

4003 5th Avenue

Sunset Park · Brooklyn, NY

For hours and to place an order, give us a call or send a message. We bake to order, so a day or two ahead is best — but stop by anytime to see what's on the counter.

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