La Mascota

Since 1952, this Boyle Heights institution has served some of the city’s best pan dulce. While their iconic crunchy-sweet conchas—as well as the tamales—have kept Angelenos coming back for decades, La Mascota also makes great wedding cookies, flan and bolillos (a shorter, savory bread related to the baguette). The extensive pan dulce selection also includes adorable puerquitos (pork-shaped cookies made with piloncillo, or raw cane sugar), sugar-dusted gusanos (sweet bread rolls) and a host of other traditional Mexican goodies worth adding to your pastry box.