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Best Baked Desserts in St Louis

Your guide to the best bakeries, donut shops, cake makers, cookie bakers, and pastry chefs in St Louis, MO.

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Explore St Louis's Dessert Map

Doughful features hand-picked bakeries in St Louis, MO — 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 St Louis Dessert Scene

St. Louis’ bakery story stretches from a famous baking accident and a century-old Italian bakery to historic cookies, Black-owned pastry innovation, and nationally acclaimed modern pâtisserie.
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Top Rated Bakeries in St Louis

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

Follow the Dough

Taste St. Louis through six bakery stories: nationally acclaimed modern pastry, Black-owned plant-based baking, French technique, The Hill’s Italian-American tradition, a nearly century-old cookie institution, and the city’s signature gooey butter cake.

📍6 Stops🚗24–28 miles⏱️55–65 min
🕐Approximately 4 hrView Full Map
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8:00 AM
Nathaniel Reid Bakery
A nationally recognized Kirkwood pastry shop bringing European technique to the St. Louis bakery landscape
Begin with a composed pastry that shows why Nathaniel Reid became one of the region’s most acclaimed pastry chefs.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗20–25 min
8:55 AM
SweetArt
A St. Louis bakery-and-café that helped make plant-based sweets feel joyful, abundant, and mainstream
Taste a plant-based cake or cupcake from a business that has paired Black creative entrepreneurship with vegan baking since 2008.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗8–10 min
9:35 AM
La Patisserie Chouquette
Simone Faure’s French-inspired boutique pâtisserie filters New Orleans roots, pop culture, and classical pastry through a distinctly St. Louis lens
Order The Darkness, then look across the macaron and pastry case to see how classical French technique becomes playful and personal.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗5–7 min
10:12 AM
Missouri Baking Co.
A century-old family bakery where Italian-American pastry remains part of everyday life on The Hill
Step into the old-school case for a ricotta cannoli and a glimpse of the bakery culture that has fed The Hill for generations.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗8–10 min
10:52 AM
Dad's Cookie Company
The surviving St. Louis home of a once-national cookie franchise built around a closely guarded Scotch oatmeal recipe
Try the crisp Original Scotch Oatmeal Cookie from the south-city storefront that has carried the tradition for generations.
⏱️ 25 minVisit Site ↗
🚗10–12 min
11:30 AM
Gooey Louie Gooey Butter Cakes
A bakery built entirely around the accidental cake that became St. Louis’ signature dessert
Finish with the Original Gooey Butter Cake at a business devoted to preserving and remixing the hometown classic.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
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