The present invention addresses the problem of providing a bakery product, which shows an excellent "soft feeling" attributable to a "puffy texture" and an excellent waxy feeling attributable to a "chewy and elastic texture" and has a soft feeling, and a method for manufacturing the same. For solving this problem, a bakery product is provided, said bakery product being manufactured by using a starting starch material, which is prepared so that, in a starting starch material to be used for manufacturing bakery products, the content of waxy tapioca starch and/or processed waxy tapioca starch amounts to 0.5-100 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the starting starch material, showing an excellent "soft feeling" attributable to a "puffy texture" and an excellent waxy feeling attributable to a "chewy and elastic texture", and having a soft feeling.
