Mother Bear’s Bakery is expanding into a larger North Spokane location giving the family-owned business more room to prepare food, display baked goods, and grow its menu after exceeding capacity at its previous storefront. 

The new restaurant is more than double the size of the previous retail location, says co-owner Laura Logsdon. The new bakery, located at 5503 N. Wall, is now operating in an updated 1,600-square-foot space from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week, following a Sept. 1 grand opening.

For Mother Bear’s Bakery, having its kitchen and retail operations under one roof has eliminated a significant challenge to the bakery’s growth. 

“It’s such a relief,” Logsdon says. “It was really hard doing the cottage baking out of our home kitchen and then having to transport everything.”

Having a full-service kitchen allows the bakery to build on its existing selection of breads, cookies, fudge, cakes, and other baked goods. Mother Bear's Bakery, which is co-owned by Logsdon's mother, Tammy Cloud, also will introduce simple breakfast, lunch, and dessert items, such as bagels and individually sliced cakes.

Mother Bear’s Bakery began as a cottage bakery during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. At the time, Logsdon was making baked goods at home to sell for extra income. The business previously operated through porch drop-offs, deliveries, craft fairs, markets, and other events. Now, the family is pausing deliveries temporarily while settling in at the new store before eventually resuming the service.

The family had opened its first retail location in 2025 at 1028 W. Rosewood, but the shop didn’t have the space needed to move production out of the home. The family continued baking goods at home, loading products into vehicles, and transporting them to stores or other weekend events. 

In February 2026, as demand increased, Logsdon’s sister, Denise Dunsmore, joined the business as a shop manager. 

“My mom and Laura were just baking everything at their house, and then we were having to shuttle all the product,” Dunsmore explains. "It was exhausting."

The arrangement became increasingly difficult and blurred the separation between work and home life, Logston says.

“Now I can go home and just be home and not have to be baking,” Logsdon says. "I will really get to enjoy quality time with my kids at home again."

The family began looking for a new space in June, a year after moving to the Rosewood location, Dunsmore says, adding that the bakery's customers helped find the new space.

Having the expanded space means the bakery can start hiring to take some of the pressure off of the family, Logsdon says. 

The bakery is in the process of hiring its first employee, and more workers will be hired depending on demand at the new location, Dunsmore says.

The long-term goal for Mother Bear's Bakery is to expand its baking team with a cake decorator, and eventually another manager.

Logsdon and Dunsmore explain that their maternal grandmother, Connie, is the primary inspiration behind Mother Bear’s Bakery. Much of the bakery's identity comes from their family traditions, but neither of the sisters imagined their grandmother's influence would support the ongoing growth of the business.

The sisters had spent much of their childhood baking with their grandmother, who passed in 2021, where they watched the children’s cartoon “Little Bear” with her. The character Mother Bear reminded them of their grandmother and ultimately inspired the bakery’s name, Dunsmore says.

“We always watched ‘Little Bear’ with her,” Dunsmore says. “Everything we do, and even how we decorate, is to honor her.”

Pastel pinks, blues, and other spring colors throughout the business reflect their grandmother’s favorite colors, they add.

Operating a family business is beginning to inspire another generation. Logsdon’s 10-year-old daughter, Rose Logsdon, helps around the bakery and has started a small venture, called Little Bear’s Antiques. The antiques business was developed about six months ago. Rose Logsdon says she's hoping that the larger bakery space will give her more room to sell items.

For Logsdon, who previously worked in medical billing, Mother Bear’s growth has taken her somewhere she didn’t anticipate.

“It feels surreal, I never thought when we first started, that the bakery would grow into what it is today.”” Logsdon says. “I just feel so far away from where I thought I’d be, and it’s a good thing.”

Looking ahead, Mother Bear’s eventually will establish additional stores in Spokane Valley and Post Falls, developing what began in a home kitchen into a regional bakery brand.