Our cases on Washington Road
The Smoak’s recipes never left Augusta
For generations, Augusta birthdays meant a cake from Smoak’s Bakery. It began with Janie Smoak selling cakes and pies from her home, grew into a shop on Central Avenue and later on Walton Way, and served the city from 1931 until it closed in 2004.
Jean Posey started at Smoak’s as a part-time sales clerk at fifteen and spent more than 35 years there, learning to decorate on the bottoms of empty cake pans. When the doors closed, Jean and two other Smoak’s veterans opened A Piece of Cake on Washington Road and went back to baking from the old recipes.
We started with three people. We are a family-oriented shop, our customers are our friends, and our Easter Eggs are a third- and fourth-generation tradition in Augusta.
“We didn’t go to school to learn how to bake. We just learned it by doing it.”
As featured in The Augusta Chronicle Smoak’s original recipes Family-run
