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Best Baked Desserts in Miami

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Explore Miami's Dessert Map

Doughful features hand-picked bakeries in Miami, FL — 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 Miami Dessert Scene

Miami’s sweet side was built by traditions that kept moving. Discover six bakeries connecting Cuban pastelitos, Puerto Rican pastry roots, Jewish babka, key lime pie, a Miami-born donut brand, and Venezuelan baking.
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Top Rated Bakeries in Miami

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Follow the Dough

Follow the Dough through Miami and taste how baking traditions are carried forward, reworked, and made local. From a Venezuelan golfeado and Jewish babka to a Miami-born donut, key lime pie, a Calle Ocho pastelito, and contemporary pastry in Coral Gables, these six stops turn the city’s story of inheritance and reinvention into a self-guided dessert trail.

📍6 Stops🚗14-16 miles⏱️45-60 min
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8:30 AM
Caracas Bakery
Venezuelan tradition meets Miami artisan bread culture in MiMo
Begin with the golfeado at a family bakery where Venezuelan baking, sourdough, and techniques learned in Miami come together.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗About 10-15 min
9:15 AM
Zak the Baker
A Miami native brings old-world craft home to Wynwood
Taste chocolate babka at the bakery Zak Stern built after leaving Miami to learn traditional food crafts abroad and returning home to bake.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗About 3-5 min
9:55 AM
The Salty Donut
A Wynwood camper pop-up that grew into a Miami-born national brand
See a familiar Miami flavor reinvented as a brioche donut at the neighborhood where The Salty first took off.
⏱️ 25 minVisit Site ↗
🚗About 3-5 min
10:30 AM
Fireman Derek’s Bake Shop
A firefighter’s teenage pie recipe turned hometown dessert institution
Taste the Key Lime Pie that grew from Derek Kaplan’s teenage baking and Miami firehouse years into a Wynwood bake shop.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗About 15-20 min
11:20 AM
Versailles Bakery
Pastelitos, cafecito, and the everyday rituals of Calle Ocho
Experience a Cuban bakery tradition that became woven into Miami’s identity through decades of repetition, memory, and community.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗About 10-15 min
12:05 PM
Bachour
Family bakery roots transformed through precision pastry in Coral Gables
Finish with Antonio Bachour’s modern pastry language, where inherited bakery experience and international technique meet familiar South Florida flavors.
⏱️ 35 minVisit Site ↗
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