The City Guide Collection

Best Baked Desserts in Chicago

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

—Bakeries
—Ship Nationwide
—Vegan Options
—Gluten-Free

Explore Chicago's Dessert Map

Doughful features hand-picked bakeries in Chicago, IL — 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.

Editor's Guide

The Chicago Dessert Scene

Chicago’s sweet side was built neighborhood by neighborhood. Discover six bakeries connecting century-old family, Polish, and Italian traditions with Black entrepreneurship, mission-driven pie, and a modern Filipino-Midwestern bakery redefining what Chicago pastry can look like now.
Read more →

Top Rated Bakeries in Chicago

The highest-rated shops in the city, straight from verified Google reviews.

Follow the Dough

Chicago - Follow the Dough through Chicago and taste a city baked neighborhood by neighborhood. From modern Filipino-Midwestern pastry and Polish pączki to a family bakery serving Chicago since 1911, Italian cookies, Southern caramel cake, and mission-driven pie, these six bakeries reveal how generations of families and entrepreneurs shaped Chicago’s sweet side.

📍6 Stops🚗31 mi⏱️1 hr 35 min
🕐About 4 hours 35 minView Full Map
1 of 6
8:30 AM
Del Sur Bakery
Filipino flavors and Midwestern ingredients through a modern pastry lens
Taste one of Chicago’s most distinctive contemporary bakery stories through laminated pastries that bring Filipino flavors together with Midwestern ingredients and modern technique.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗20 min
9:20 AM
Delightful Pastries
Pączki and European baking traditions carried forward in Jefferson Park
Begin with Chicago’s Polish baking story through filled pączki made year-round at a family-owned bakery rooted in European pastry traditions.
⏱️ 25 minVisit Site ↗
🚗20 min
10:05 AM
Roeser's Bakery
Chicago’s oldest family-owned bakery still operating in its original location
Taste an old-school Chicago bakery tradition at a North Avenue institution that has served changing generations of Humboldt Park since 1911.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗20 min
10:55 AM
Scafuri Bakery
More than a century of Italian family baking in Chicago’s Little Italy
Taste a family baking tradition that began with a Calabrian immigrant in 1904 and still fills Taylor Street with Italian cookies, breads, pastries, and celebration sweets.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗25 min
11:50 AM
Brown Sugar Bakery
Southern-style celebration cakes and Black entrepreneurship on Chicago’s South Side
Experience a South Side bakery built around Southern dessert traditions, then discover how its founder carried an older Chicago candy-making legacy into a new generation.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗10 min
12:30 PM
Justice of the Pies
Creative pie, family memory, and a bakery built around social impact
Finish with a Chicago pie business where inventive flavors, a father’s memory, and a commitment to fairness and community all share the same crust.
⏱️ 35 minVisit Site ↗
View Full Map

Best by Category in Chicago

Dive into Chicago's top-rated shops for each kind of treat.

Best Cakes View Now
Best Cupcakes View Now
Best Cookies View Now
Best Pastries View Now
Best Breads View Now

Frequently Asked Questions — Desserts in Chicago

Discover the best desserts in every city. Explore guides, maps, and top-rated dessert spots near you.
Explore More Cities