Bakery customers buy with their eyes. A mouth-watering website with simple ordering turns scrolling into pre-orders and walk-ins. Here is how to build a bakery website with AI.
What matters most to local food lovers
- Mouth-watering photography. Show your breads, cakes and pastries in natural light, because looks drive sales.
- Menu and ordering. List products with prices and offer pre-orders for cakes and large orders.
- Hours and location. Show opening hours and what sells out early.
- Custom orders. Provide a simple form for birthday cakes and events.
- Story and ingredients. Share your story and local ingredients to build loyalty.
Pages to include on your bakery website
- Home. Fresh-baked hero image, hours and today’s specials.
- Menu, with photos and dietary labels.
- Custom cakes, with a gallery and an inquiry form asking for date, size and flavor.
- Catering and wholesale.
- Pre-orders for holidays like Thanksgiving and Easter.
- Our story and Contact.
Taking pre-orders
Use WooCommerce for pre-orders and pickup slots, or a simple order form for small bakeries. Tuli includes WooCommerce building blocks if you want an online shop. See building a store with AI.
Set up your bakery website with Tuli Builder
- Install the Tuli theme. On a WordPress site with hosting and a domain, install and activate Tuli Builder. New to WordPress? Start with the beginner guide.
- Open the AI Assistant. In your dashboard go to Tuli, then AI Assistant, and pick Tuli AI, which is included with your licence and needs no API key. Prefer your own account? Add an API key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini or OpenRouter instead.
- Paste the prompt below. Swap in your real business name, city and services. The assistant lays out the page, drafts the copy and writes clean HTML and CSS.
- Refine visually or by asking. Click any element to restyle it in the style panel, or describe the change to the AI.
- Add your inner pages, then publish. Repeat the process for each page in the list above, replace placeholder text and photos with real ones, and publish.
The best prompt for a bakery website
Copy this prompt, then change the name, city and details to match your business.
Build a home page for Golden Crumb Bakery in Portland, Oregon. Hero with a bread and pastry photo, the headline Baked Fresh Every Morning, and buttons for See Today and Order a Cake. Add a today-from-the-oven section, a menu grid (bread, pastries, cakes, gluten-free), a custom cake order form, opening hours, a story section about the baker, reviews and a map. Use warm cream, rich brown and a golden accent with a hand-crafted feel.
Follow-up prompts to refine it
- Create a custom cake order page with size, flavour, date and message fields.
- Add a menu page with prices and allergen icons.
- Add a weekly specials banner for the home page.
Create it in Tuli Builder.
Local SEO
- Use “bakery in [neighborhood]” naturally.
- Keep your Google Business Profile photos fresh.
- Highlight special diets: gluten-free, vegan.
FAQ
How do I handle allergens?
List ingredients and note cross-contamination risks clearly.
What does it cost?
Tuli Builder is a one-time payment from $49.
See also the restaurant website guide and the beginner’s guide.