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Best Baked Desserts in Atlanta

Your guide to the best bakeries, donut shops, cake makers, cookie bakers, and pastry chefs in Atlanta, GA.

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Explore Atlanta's Dessert Map

Doughful features hand-picked bakeries in Atlanta, GA — including top-rated cake shops, cookie bakeries, cupcake studios, pastry shops, and artisan bread bakeries. Each listing includes verified Google reviews, current hours, directions, and direct links to order online.

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The Atlanta Dessert Scene

Atlanta’s sweet story is one of history, reinvention, and the people who keep moving the city forward. From peach cobbler served in the heart of Civil Rights-era Atlanta and Southern Black baking in historic Sweet Auburn to nearly a century of French pastry, artisan baking, handcrafted cupcakes, and an Atlanta-born Sconut, these six stops reveal a city that honors what came before while always making room for what comes next.
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Top Rated Bakeries in Atlanta

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Follow the Dough

Atlanta - Follow the Dough through Atlanta and taste a city that keeps baking forward. From an Atlanta-born Sconut and Southern sweet potato cheesecake to artisan pastry, Civil Rights-era hospitality, nearly a century of French baking, and modern cupcake entrepreneurship, these six stops connect the people, neighborhoods, and ideas behind Atlanta’s evolving sweet side.

📍6 Stops🚗11 miles⏱️40 mins
🕐About 4 hoursView Full Map
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10:00 AM
Flaky Not Flaky
The home of an Atlanta-born pastry called the Sconut
Begin with something Atlanta created for itself: a baked pastry that combines the pillowy layers of a scone with the sweetness and moisture of a doughnut.
⏱️ 20-25 minVisit Site ↗
🚗10-15 min
10:35 AM
Sweet Auburn Bread Company
Southern African-American baking in the heart of historic Sweet Auburn
Taste one of Atlanta’s most distinctive Southern desserts in a family bakery carrying Black baking traditions forward just steps from the Martin Luther King Jr. historic district.
⏱️ 25–30 minutesVisit Site ↗
🚗10-15 min
11:15 AM
Little Tart Bakeshop
A farmers-market bakery that helped shape modern Atlanta pastry
Experience the artisan side of Atlanta through laminated pastry made with a philosophy still rooted in the farmers, producers, and markets where Little Tart began.
⏱️ 25–30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗15-20 min
12:00 PM
Paschal's
Peach cobbler at a restaurant woven into Atlanta’s Civil Rights history
Paschal’s is the one stop on this tour that is not a bakery. It belongs because few Atlanta desserts come from a dining room with a history as significant as this one.
⏱️ 30–40 minVisit Site ↗
🚗20-30 min
1:00 PM
Henri's Bakery & Deli
Nearly a century of French pastry and family baking in Atlanta
Step into a baking tradition that began with a French pastry chef in 1929 and has been carried forward by generations of the same Atlanta family.
⏱️ 25–30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗5-15 min
1:40 PM
CamiCakes
A modern cupcake brand built around one baker’s childhood obsession
Finish with the modern Atlanta cupcake story of Andra Hall, who transformed an early love of baking into a dessert brand that has grown with the city.
⏱️ 20-25 minVisit Site ↗
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