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Best Baked Desserts in Seattle

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

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Explore Seattle's Dessert Map

Doughful features hand-picked bakeries in Seattle, WA — 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 Seattle Dessert Scene

Seattle's sweet side was shaped by traditions from around the world. Discover six bakeries connecting Pike Place French pastry, an iconic coconut cream pie, Filipino ube cheesecake, modern laminated pastry, destination layer cake, and neighborhood cookies.
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Top Rated Bakeries in Seattle

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

Follow the Dough

Follow the Dough through Seattle and taste a dessert story shaped by traditions arriving from around the world and becoming part of the city. From Pike Place French pastry and Seattle's famous coconut cream pie to Filipino ube cheesecake, modern laminated pastry, London Fog cake, and neighborhood cookies, these six bakeries show how Seattle keeps turning outside influence into local tradition.

📍6 Stops🚗5-18 miles ⏱️65-75 min
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8:30 AM
Le Panier
Four decades of French baking tradition in the heart of Pike Place Market
Begin in Pike Place with a bakery founded in 1983 to bring the breads and pastries of France to Seattle.
⏱️ 25 minVisit Site ↗
🚗About 5-10 min
9:05 AM
Dahlia Bakery
The home of one of Seattle’s defining modern desserts
Taste the Triple Coconut Cream Pie that became synonymous with Tom Douglas's Seattle restaurants and helped inspire a bakery of its own.
⏱️ 25 minVisit Site ↗
🚗About 10-15 min
9:45 AM
Hood Famous Bakeshop
Ube cheesecake, Filipino flavors, and a Seattle bakery built from a cult dessert
Discover the vivid purple cheesecake that grew from Filipino-American pop-ups into one of Seattle's most recognizable contemporary desserts.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗About 10 min
10:25 AM
Temple Pastries
Precision laminated pastry from Seattle’s contemporary baking generation
See Seattle's current pastry scene through Christina Wood's laminated doughs, seasonal flavors, and exacting technique.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗About 15-20 min
11:15 AM
Deep Sea Sugar & Salt
Towering layer cakes and Northwest-inspired flavors in Georgetown
Make room for a generous slice at a cake shop where tea, fruit, spice, and seasonal flavors turn layer cake into a destination.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗About 20-25 min
12:10 PM
Hello Robin
A Capitol Hill home baker turned beloved Seattle cookie shop
Finish with a Seattle-born cookie business that grew from neighborhood baking and local collaboration into a city favorite.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
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