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Best Baked Desserts in Charleston

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

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Explore Charleston's Dessert Map

Doughful features hand-picked bakeries in Charleston, SC — 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 Charleston Dessert Scene

Charleston’s sweet side is rooted in family recipes, Gullah Geechee traditions, Southern biscuits, neighborhood bakeries, and a new generation of pastry makers. Discover how five local businesses carry those stories forward through Charleston Chewies, coconut cake, sticky buns, handmade biscuits, and modern artisan baking.
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Charleston - Follow the Dough through Charleston and taste a baking story shaped by centuries of Lowcountry tradition. From crisp benne wafers and handmade biscuits to Charleston Chewies, iconic coconut cake, neighborhood pastries, and modern artisan baking, these six stops connect the ingredients, families, communities, and bakers behind Charleston’s sweet side.

📍5 Stops🚗15 mil⏱️40 min
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9:00 AM
Weltons Tiny Bakeshop
Regional grains and a new generation of Charleston pastry
Taste Charleston’s newest artisan-baking chapter through naturally leavened pastries built around regional grains, local produce, and the Weltons’ Lowcountry-meets-global point of view.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗10 min
9:40 AM
Callie's Hot Little Biscuit
A family biscuit tradition in the heart of Charleston
Experience one of the South’s most familiar baked traditions through handmade Charleston biscuits inspired by a family recipe and transformed into a modern Lowcountry business.
⏱️ 25 minVisit Site ↗
🚗5 min walk
10:10 AM
Benne’s
The home of Charleston’s famous 12-layer coconut cake
Taste one of modern Charleston’s most recognizable desserts: the towering Ultimate Coconut Cake made famous by Peninsula Grill and served by the slice at Benne’s.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗15 min
10:55 AM
Daddy's Girls Bakery
Charleston Chewies, family, and Black entrepreneurship
Discover a Charleston sweet with deep community roots while experiencing the family bakery that helped bring the Charleston Chewie to an even wider audience.
⏱️ 25 minVisit Site ↗
🚗15 min
11:35 AM
Wildflour Pastry
Comfort desserts meet professional pastry technique
Finish with a Charleston neighborhood bakery where croissants, cookies, pies, tarts, and playful comfort desserts show how the city’s pastry culture has continued to evolve.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
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