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Best Baked Desserts in Los Angeles

Your guide to the best bakeries, donut shops, cake makers, cookie bakers, and pastry chefs in Los Angeles, CA.

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Explore Los Angeles's Dessert Map

Doughful features hand-picked bakeries in Los Angeles, CA — 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 Los Angeles Dessert Scene

From a Chinatown strawberry cake and Central Avenue sweet potato pie to Filipino ube, new-school pan dulce, Mexico City churros, and sculptural viral pastry, Los Angeles keeps turning family and immigrant traditions into something unmistakably its own.
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Top Rated Bakeries in Los Angeles

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

Follow the Dough

Follow Los Angeles dessert culture from Highland Park pan dulce and Echo Park churros through Chinatown celebration cake, Black Southern pie tradition, Filipino-American comfort dessert, and modern viral French pastry.

📍6 Stops🚗27–32 miles⏱️80–100 min
🕐Approximately 5 hr 20 minView Full Map
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8:00 AM
Santa Canela
A Highland Park bakery where Mexican and Salvadoran roots meet modern LA pastry technique
Start with a bakery that makes reinvention visible: conchas, churros, and pan dulce translated through a distinctly Los Angeles pastry lens.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗15–20 min
8:50 AM
El Moro
A nearly century-old Mexico City churro tradition newly transplanted to Echo Park
Follow a dessert tradition that migrated from Spain to Mexico City and then into one of Los Angeles' most culturally fluid neighborhoods.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗10–15 min
10:00 AM
Phoenix Bakery
A Chan-family Chinatown institution whose strawberry whipped cream cake became an LA celebration tradition
Taste the cake that shows how an immigrant-community bakery can create something the entire city eventually claims as its own.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗15–20 min
10:50 AM
27th Street Bakery
A Central Avenue family bakery preserving Southern sweet potato pie tradition in Los Angeles since 1956
Move from Chinatown celebration cake into a Black Los Angeles landmark where Southern pie traditions became part of the city's own food memory.
⏱️ 25 minVisit Site ↗
🚗25–35 min
12:00 PM
B Sweet Dessert Bar
Chef Barb Batiste's Sawtelle dessert bar where Filipino flavors enter LA-style comfort desserts
Shift from legacy baking into a distinctly contemporary LA crossover: ube folded into the warm, nostalgic format of bread pudding.
⏱️ 35 minVisit Site ↗
🚗5–10 min
12:45 PM
Artelice Patisserie
A modern LA French pastry shop where technical precision, sculptural desserts, and social-media discovery meet
Finish with the newest form of dessert culture: pastry as craftsmanship, spectacle, and content all at once.
⏱️ 35 minVisit Site ↗
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