A bakery is an establishment or shop that produces and sells food items based on flour and baked in ovens. A confectionery is a place that sells sweets. The sweets or candy produced in a sweets¿ shop (confectionery) is also known as confectionery. Bakery and confectionery are both shops that sell food items. The main difference between bakery and confectionery is that a bakery is a place where baked food items are sold whereas confectionery is a place where sweet food items are sold. Not all products in the bakery are sweet. Similarly, not all the sweets in the confectionery are baked.