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The Boujee Baker (Boujee Baker KC) is a Black- and women-owned bakery-café at 2311 E 12th St, Kansas City, MO in the Historic Northeast. Owner Joyce Watts (with husband Richard Watts) opened the brick-and-mortar in May 2025 after a 2020 home-based business and earlier work with sisters under Big Momma’s Bakery-Cafe. Breakfast and lunch bakery-café, Mon–Sat 7 am–3 pm. Tier 1 independent.123

Description

Watts’s Northeast shop serves sweets (cookies ~$1.25 / $15 dozen — chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, strawberry lemonade, banana pudding, ooey gooey butter, peanut butter), breakfast (sandwiches, biscuit & sausage gravy, quiche, breakfast panini), and lunch (sandwiches, soups, salads, wraps). KCUR notes a daily chicken taco soup pot plus rotating soups (zuppa toscana, loaded baked potato, chicken noodle, chicken pot pie, steak, lasagna).1 Tagline: “Keep it Cute, Keep it Classy and always be Boujee!”2

Ownership and history

Joyce Watts baked for decades with her sisters at Big Momma’s Bakery-Cafe, then ran Boujee Baker from home starting 2020. Brick-and-mortar on E 12th opened May 2025. Husband Richard helps early mornings before his full-time job; full-time employee Chesni Bivens; granddaughter Anya Handy on call.1 NEKC Chamber welcomed the business in March 2026.3

menu_status: partial · item families from KCUR feature.

Breakfast

  • Breakfast sandwiches · biscuit and sausage gravy · quiche · breakfast panini1

Lunch

  • Sandwiches · wraps · salads1
  • Chicken taco soup (daily) · rotating soups1

Bakery

  • Cookies $1.25 each / $15 dozen (chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, strawberry lemonade, banana pudding, ooey gooey butter, peanut butter)1
  • Cinnamon rolls · dinner rolls · cakes · pies (press/photo coverage)1

Sources

Footnotes

  1. KCUR / Startland syndication — Joyce Smith, “Joyce Watts spent decades baking around Kansas City. Now she’s thriving as the Boujee Baker,” Jan 4, 2026 — asserts: May 2025 E 12th open; 2020 home business; Big Momma’s lineage; Joyce + Richard Watts; hours 7–3 Mon–Sat; menu categories; cookie prices; staff Chesni Bivens, Anya Handy. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  2. The Boujee Baker — official site — asserts: 2311 E 12th St KCMO 64127; (816) 800-4066; joyce@boujeebakerkc.com; tagline. ↩ ↩2

  3. Northeast News — “NEKC Chamber Welcomes Boujee Baker KC,” March 4, 2026 — asserts: women-owned Northeast bakery; 2311 E 12th; community framing. ↩ ↩2

See also

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On the record — ks.city/registry/boujee-baker · record updated 2026-08-11