The Ultimate Guide to Vegan Sweets & Desserts in St. Louis (2026)
The STL Vegan Guide · Last updated August 2026
St. Louis has a serious sweet tooth. Gooey butter cake was invented here. So was the ice cream cone, if you believe the 1904 World's Fair legend. The good news for the rest of us: you no longer need dairy or eggs to eat like it.
This city now supports fully vegan bakeries, vegan ice cream churned from scratch, custom vegan birthday cakes, vegan donuts across the city, and a fully vegan French afternoon tea worth dressing up for. This guide covers all of it, organized by craving.
Why trust us? VeganSTL is the community hub of Project Animal Freedom, the nonprofit behind STL Vegan Market and 50+ vegan events a year in St. Louis. We've thrown a 100-person vegan ice cream social, we're hosting a vegan tea party this September, and many of the bakers below have sold out their tables at our markets. Where we have firsthand experience, we say so; every other listing was researched and verified in August 2026.
One editorial note: this guide favors St. Louis' independent businesses. National chains appear only in brief notes, and only where they fill a gap locals don't. And because bakery cases and scoop-shop menus change daily, check before you drive; fully vegan businesses are labeled, and at vegan-friendly spots we tell you what to ask.
Vegan Desserts in St. Louis at a Glance
In a hurry? Here's the short version:
Fully vegan bakery: SweetArt, at The Coronado in Midtown or City Foundry
Everything vegan AND gluten-free: Kris Miss Bake Shop for a storefront; Prioritized Pastries for farmers' market pickups, pop-ups, and special orders
Custom birthday cake: The Vegan Cake Spot or Kris Miss Bake Shop
Ice cream right now: Clementine's vegan case at the location nearest you; Bombay Food Junkies for fully vegan soft serve
A vegan donut: World's Fair Donuts' Vegan Cinnamon Twist (on the current menu); Damn Fine Hand Pies for vegan fritters and brioche donuts
Afternoon tea: the fully vegan tea at La Pâtisserie Paris in St. Charles
Late-night cookie emergency: Insomnia Cookies' vegan line
Mixed vegan/non-vegan group: City Foundry, where SweetArt Too and Sylvie Dee's sit steps apart
Worth the day trip: Birdie's Bakeshop on the riverfront in Washington, MO
Details on all of it below.
St. Louis' Fully Vegan Bakeries & Bakers
Everything in the case. No label-reading, no "is the frosting vegan?" conversation at the counter. These businesses are 100% plant-based, top to bottom, whether they sell from a storefront, a market table, or an order form; each entry starts with how to actually get the goods.
SweetArt Bakeshop + Café
The elder statesman of vegan baking in St. Louis: Black-owned, beloved since 2008, and 100% plant-based at both locations. The rotating case runs cupcakes, cookies, cinnamon rolls, and cakes, with a full savory menu if you came hungry. The original bakeshop and café now lives at The Coronado, 3701 Lindell Blvd after years in Shaw, and SweetArt Too holds down City Foundry at 3730 Foundry Way, where the house rule applies: never leave the building without dessert.
Two storefronts · sweetartstl.com
Kris Miss Bake Shop
Every single item here is both vegan and gluten-free, made with natural ingredients and zero artificial dyes. Cakes, cupcakes, cookies, and donuts that started as a market favorite; in June 2026, Kris Miss opened its own brick-and-mortar in Lake St. Louis. Worth the drive out, and a lifesaver for anyone juggling allergies.
Storefront · 11102 Veterans Memorial Pkwy, Lake St. Louis, MO 63367 · Facebook / Order
Birdie's Bakeshop
An hour west on the banks of the Missouri River, Birdie's is baking Washington, MO a better place: everything vegan, much of it gluten-free, all of it alpha-gal safe, with organic ingredients and vegetable-based colors instead of dyes. The oatmeal cream pie has a devoted following, and the cinnamon rolls and butter cakes hold their own. Pair it with a stroll through Washington's riverfront downtown and you've got a full day trip.
Storefront + day trip · 116 W Front St, Suite 100, Washington, MO 63090 · Order online · Wed–Fri 9–4, Sat 9–2
Prioritized Pastries
Chef-owner Alex McDonnell built what Feast described as the first bakery in St. Louis dedicated exclusively to vegan, gluten-free, and allergy-friendly treats, and the salted chocolate chip cookie remains a signature. The Maplewood storefront closed in early 2026, but Prioritized Pastries continues through special orders and appearances at the Tower Grove Farmers' Market and other events; there's nowhere to simply walk in, so check the current schedule before heading out.
Markets, pop-ups & special orders · prioritizedpastries.com
The Vegan Cake Spot
A fully vegan operation known for recreating the desserts you grew up on. Custom decorative cakes and cupcakes for birthdays and holidays, plus a cookie lineup that runs from funfetti and snickerdoodle to double chocolate chunk and cookies & cream. Order ahead online; plan on at least two weeks' notice for custom work (rush fees apply for anything faster).
Order ahead · thevegancakespot.com
Vegan Ice Cream & Frozen Treats in St. Louis
The dairy-free scoop scene here is genuinely strong, from a fully vegan soft serve program to nitrogen-churned pints.
Bombay Food Junkies
A fully vegan restaurant in Creve Coeur with a dessert program that deserves its own billing: house-made soy-coconut-oat soft serve, sundaes, and made-to-order milkshakes rooted in Indian street dessert traditions. Flavors run from cookies & cream to mango, blueberry pie, and falooda. When we threw a vegan ice cream social here, 100 people showed up. We understand why.
12955 Olive Blvd, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 · bombayfoodjunkies.com
Clementine's Naughty & Nice Creamery
St. Louis' famous small-batch creamery keeps a real vegan lineup in the case at its locations across the metro, not a lonely sorbet in the corner. Think tahini chocolate chip, lemon poppyseed, coconut chocolate fudge, and a pink Champagne sorbet for celebrating. Food Network has singled out Clementine's vegan flavors nationally, and we concur.
Multiple metro locations · clementinescreamery.com
Ices Plain & Fancy
The Shaw neighborhood's liquid-nitrogen ice cream parlor flash-churns its scoops to order, and the vegan side of the menu gets real attention: coconut-milk-based flavors, rotating vegan sorbets, and vegan takes on the fancy stuff. Ask what's plant-based today; the answer is never nothing.
2256 S 39th St, St. Louis, MO 63110 · icesplainandfancy.com
Sugarwitch
An ice cream sandwich shop in far South City that always keeps dairy-free and gluten-free 'wiches on the menu. The Kiki, mango sorbet pressed between toasted coconut rice crispy treats, tastes like a vacation. Woman-owned, wildly creative, and worth crossing the city for.
7726 Virginia Ave, St. Louis, MO 63111 · sugarwitchic.com
Sylvie Dee's
A bubblegum-pink scoop, candy, and coffee shop with locations in Webster Groves and the City Foundry breezeway, serving Serendipity Homemade Ice Cream with vegan flavors in the rotation, like Vegan Rocky Road-ish. The Foundry location is the move for mixed groups: vegan scoops here, fully vegan baked goods at SweetArt Too a few steps away, and everyone leaves happy.
Webster Groves + City Foundry · City Foundry directory
A Spoonful of Sugar
A Black-owned, family-run scoop shop in Benton Park making small-batch ice cream from family recipes, with a standing non-dairy, coconut-base scoop menu alongside the classics; past non-dairy flavors have run from Oreo to Aztec chocolate to black cherry. Ask which of today's coconut-base flavors are fully vegan, and enjoy one of the friendliest counters in South City.
2800 McNair Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118 · spoonful-stl.com
A note on chains: our focus is local, but if you're in the Central West End and need a walk-in dairy-free case, the Jeni's at 389 N. Euclid keeps a substantial dairy-free selection.
Vegan Donuts in St. Louis
St. Louis is a donut town. Here's where the plant-based ones live.
World's Fair Donuts
A Southwest Garden institution carried into its next era by the Strange Donuts team, with the classic case intact and a Vegan Cinnamon Twist on the current menu. A vegan donut with its own menu line, from a name that helped make this a donut town. Go early; donut shops reward the punctual.
1904 S Vandeventer Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110 · Instagram
Damn Fine Hand Pies
Don't let the name fool you: alongside the hand pies, this Shaw bakery runs one of the strongest recurring vegan donut selections in the city. The lineup rotates through vegan cinnamon sugar, vegan apple fritters, and vegan sourdough brioche donuts, and the bread program includes a vegan country loaf and an olive oil and sea salt focaccia. They started as a Tower Grove Farmers' Market stall, and it shows in the ingredients. Closed Tuesdays; order online for first pick before things sell out.
4000 Shaw Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63110 · damnfinehandpies.com
Pharaoh's Donuts
Old-school, Black-owned, and downtown: Pharaoh's turns out the fluffy, melt-in-your-mouth classics, and St. Louis vegans have repeatedly reported finding vegan donuts here, with some calling them the best in the city. Availability isn't posted online, so call before you make the trip and ask for the day's vegan picks.
202 N 9th St, St. Louis, MO 63101 · Facebook
Strange Donuts
The shop that made St. Louis donuts weird in the best way runs rotating vegan options: think a raspberry Oreo crumble long john when the stars align. Check the day's selection on their socials before you go.
Multiple locations · strangedonuts.com
Kris Miss Bake Shop
Yes, again. The vegan, gluten-free donuts at Kris Miss belong in this category on merit, not just as a footnote to the cakes. See the full entry in the bakery section above.
Vegan Cookies in St. Louis
The chocolate chip cookie test is where vegan baking wins converts, and St. Louis passes it repeatedly. Prioritized Pastries' salted chocolate chip and The Vegan Cake Spot's lineup (both above) lead the fully vegan field. Beyond the bakeries:
Seedz Cafe bakes its vegan chocolate chip cookies in-house from scratch, the right ending to any meal at one of the city's most beloved plant-based restaurants (full entry below). Whisk on Cherokee Street marks its vegan items clearly, and the current case includes a vegan chocolate chip cookie and vegan, gluten-free raspberry thumbprints (full entry below). Protagonist and Antagonist in Soulard keep house-baked vegan pastries in rotation (full entry below). Pieces, Soulard's board game bar and restaurant sharing Antagonist's 1937 police-station building, keeps its cookie lineup fully vegan, so every seat at the game table gets dessert no matter the dietary spread. And for the 11 p.m. emergency, our one late-night chain exception: Insomnia Cookies' St. Louis stores carry vegan cookie options; exact selection varies.
Vegan Cakes & Cupcakes: Birthdays, Weddings & Special Occasions
Nobody should sit through their own birthday with no cake. For fully vegan custom work, start with Kris Miss Bake Shop (vegan and gluten-free, natural dyes only) and The Vegan Cake Spot (decorative custom cakes and cupcakes; order at least two weeks ahead, with rush fees for anything faster). SweetArt takes advance cake orders, with payment due at least 72 hours ahead; they keep it simple and don't do custom decoration work. For a fully vegan wedding or event cake with allergy-friendly credentials, Prioritized Pastries takes special orders year-round. And in North County, Made. by Lia in Old Town Florissant takes special orders for vegan cakes, subject to availability (full entry below).
Among mainstream St. Louis bakeries, The Cup in the Central West End keeps a dedicated vegan cupcake selection, including a vegan chocolate cupcake; quantities are limited, so go early or call ahead.
Call ahead for anything special-occasion; small bakeries sell out and custom slots fill fast.
Vegan Afternoon Tea & French Pastries
La Pâtisserie Paris
A luxury French pâtisserie in historic St. Charles offering a fully vegan afternoon tea experience: tiered trays, delicate pastries, vegan clotted cream, the whole ritual. It's special-occasion vegan dining of a kind St. Louis simply didn't have until recently. We love it so much we're hosting our own vegan tea party there on September 20, 2026: reserve your seat here.
524 S Main St, Suite 3, St. Charles, MO 63301
La Vie French Café
The café side of St. Charles' French plant-based story, below street level on historic Main Street: vegan croissants, crêpes, macarons, and French onion soup. The menu remains plant-based throughout, including its meat- and cheese-style dishes, with one exception: a dairy cheese fondue offered as part of the fondue experience. That single exception keeps it off our strictly-100% list; the pastry case alone justifies the trip.
Vegan menu · one dairy fondue exception · 524 S Main St, St. Charles, MO 63301 · lavievegan.com
Vegan Sweets With Your Coffee & Tea
Protagonist Café + Antagonist Café
Soulard's storybook café pair bookends the neighborhood: Protagonist (est. 2019) on the north end, and Antagonist (est. 2024) on the south, in a 1937 art deco former police station where you can sip a latte in an actual jail cell. Antagonist houses the bakery that supplies both cases, and house-made sweet and savory vegan pastries rotate through, with vegan custom cakes and pies by order. The rare neighborhood café program where the vegan option isn't an afterthought.
Protagonist: 1700 S 9th St · Antagonist: 2727 S 12th St · protagonistcafe.com · antagonistcafe.com
Fiddlehead Fern Café
Shaw's beloved women-owned café has been all-vegetarian from the start, with a plant-forward menu (the vegan Pompeia Caesar is a house classic) and a pastry case that takes vegan baking seriously; the program has even turned out vegan aquafaba macarons. A second location, Fern Grove, opened in The Grove in 2026. Ask what's vegan in the case today.
4066 Russell Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63110 · fiddleheadferncafe.com
Haché Herbal Infusions
A serene, fully vegan coffee and tea house in DeMun, two doors from Seedz. Beautifully crafted herbal drinks, light café fare, and sweet treats to match, in a slow-morning atmosphere where everything on the counter is safe by default.
6350 S Rosebury Ave, St. Louis, MO 63105 · Instagram
Mokabe's Coffeehouse
The Tower Grove institution has been fully vegetarian for years, with vegan options throughout the menu and a dessert selection to pair with your latte. Ask what's vegan in the case today; it's a South Grand ritual for a reason.
3606 Arsenal St, St. Louis, MO 63116 · mokabescoffeehouse.com
Vegan-Friendly Bakeries Worth Knowing
These aren't fully vegan businesses, but they treat vegan baking seriously enough to earn a place in your rotation. One general tip: vegan items here share an oven and a case with everything else, so if cross-contact matters to you beyond ingredients, ask.
Whisk: A Sustainable Bakeshop
A sustainability-first, woman-owned bakeshop on Cherokee Street's Antique Row since 2012, with clearly marked vegan items in the daily case. Right now that means a vegan chocolate chip cookie, vegan and gluten-free raspberry thumbprints and banana chocolate chip muffins, and vegan whoopie pies, alongside a rotating cast. Open Friday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. or until sell-out; the website lists Thursday hours inconsistently, so call before a Thursday trip. They'll happily tell you what's in the case and even hold items for you. Note: Whisk is not currently taking custom orders.
2201 Cherokee St, St. Louis, MO 63118 · whiskstl.com
Made. by Lia
Old Town Florissant's craft bakery comes with television credentials: owner Lia Weber won TLC's Next Great Baker before opening her own storefront in 2020. The case keeps rotating vegan and gluten-free options daily, including vegan donuts in flavors like cinnamon sugar and chocolate espresso, and vegan cakes can be special-ordered subject to availability. North County's best answer for plant-based sweets, with coffee, tea, and patio seating to match.
Storefront · 610 Rue St. Francois, Florissant, MO 63031 · madebylia.com · Tue–Sat 7:30–2
Vegan Chocolate & Candy
Kakao Chocolate
Maplewood's all-natural artisan chocolatier hand-dips everything in small batches, with no artificial flavors, colors, or preservatives, and keeps vegan options among its truffles and confections. Important: most of the case is not vegan (dairy and honey appear throughout the lineup), so ask the staff which chocolates are plant-based; they know their case cold.
7272 Manchester Rd, Maplewood, MO 63143 · kakaochocolate.com
Restaurants With Vegan Desserts Worth the Trip
Adina's Vegan Cuisine
St. Louis' vegan soul food institution, anchoring Carter Commons Food Hall in Pagedale, knows that soul food ends with something sweet. Desserts rotate through the counter, from cakes to peach cobbler, and the famous vegan cinnamon rolls at Sunday brunch have earned their reputation, live band and all. Black-, women-, and family-owned, and 100% vegan top to bottom.
Carter Commons Food Hall, 6746 Page Ave, Pagedale, MO 63133 · Instagram · Wed–Sat 11–8, Sunday brunch 1–5
Tree House Restaurant
The South Grand institution's dessert menu is vegan by default, attached to one of the most acclaimed vegetarian kitchens in the city. Seasonal, house-made, and the correct answer to "where should we go for a nice dinner AND dessert?"
3177 S Grand Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63118 · treehousestl.com
Seedz Cafe
One of St. Louis' most beloved fully vegan restaurants, in Clayton's DeMun neighborhood, with a rotating dessert selection and those in-house chocolate chip cookies. Come for brunch, stay for whatever's in the case.
6344 S Rosebury Ave, St. Louis, MO 63105 · seedzcafe.com
Also on Our Radar
A few names come up in the St. Louis vegan-sweets conversation that we haven't fully confirmed for this edition: Mochiatsu (mochi donuts; vegan status varies), Spoonful Dessert Cafe, and The London Tea Room (newly reopened in DeBaliviere Place; its previous location served a fully vegan afternoon tea, and we're confirming whether the new one does). Know something current about any of them? Tell us and we'll update the guide.
Vegan Sweets at STL Vegan Market & Local Pop-Ups
Some of the best vegan sweets in St. Louis don't have a storefront: they have a folding table and a line. STL Vegan Market, run by Project Animal Freedom, brings together dozens of local vegan vendors each season, and the dessert tables go fast. Kris Miss built its following at markets before opening its shop; Prioritized Pastries returned to its farmers'-market roots after closing its Maplewood storefront; Damn Fine Hand Pies grew from a market stall into a Shaw storefront. The next great St. Louis vegan bakery is probably taking cash and compliments at one right now. Check our events calendar for upcoming market dates, ice cream socials, and dessert-heavy meetups.
St. Louis Vegan Desserts FAQ
Are there fully vegan bakeries in St. Louis?
Yes. SweetArt (two storefronts), Kris Miss Bake Shop, The Vegan Cake Spot (order ahead), and Prioritized Pastries (markets and special orders) are all fully vegan, Birdie's Bakeshop covers Washington, MO, and fully vegan kitchens like Bombay Food Junkies and Haché round out the sweets scene.
Where can I get a vegan birthday cake in St. Louis?
For fully vegan custom cakes, start with Kris Miss Bake Shop (also gluten-free) or The Vegan Cake Spot, which asks for at least two weeks' notice. SweetArt takes advance cake orders with payment at least 72 hours ahead, Prioritized Pastries takes special orders for allergy-friendly cakes, and Made. by Lia in Florissant offers vegan cakes by special order.
Who has the best vegan ice cream in St. Louis?
Depends on your mood: Bombay Food Junkies for fully vegan soft serve and milkshakes, Clementine's for small-batch scoops, Ices Plain & Fancy for nitrogen-churned flavors, Sugarwitch for ice cream sandwiches, Sylvie Dee's for vegan Serendipity flavors, and A Spoonful of Sugar for coconut-base scoops in Benton Park. You genuinely can't go wrong.
Are there vegan donuts in St. Louis?
Yes. World's Fair Donuts keeps a Vegan Cinnamon Twist on its menu, Damn Fine Hand Pies in Shaw rotates vegan fritters and brioche donuts, Strange Donuts runs rotating vegan specials, Made. by Lia bakes vegan donuts in Florissant, and Kris Miss Bake Shop makes vegan, gluten-free donuts in Lake St. Louis. Downtown's Pharaoh's Donuts is a frequent vegan favorite too; call ahead for the day's picks.
Which neighborhoods are best for vegan desserts?
Shaw quietly leads: Ices Plain & Fancy, Damn Fine Hand Pies, and Fiddlehead Fern Café are all minutes apart. DeMun puts Seedz and Haché two doors from each other, South Grand gives you Tree House and Mokabe's, Soulard bookends its blocks with Protagonist and Antagonist plus an all-vegan cookie lineup at Pieces board game bar, and City Foundry pairs SweetArt Too with Sylvie Dee's under one roof. Cherokee Street has Whisk, and historic Main Street in St. Charles pairs La Vie's vegan French café (one dairy fondue exception) with a fully vegan afternoon tea at La Pâtisserie Paris.
Keep Exploring
Hungry for more than dessert? Start with The Best Vegan Restaurants in St. Louis, our complete guide to every vegan and vegan-friendly spot in the metro, including the STL VegMap. Then meet the people behind the food in our directory of Black-owned vegan restaurants and bakers in St. Louis.
Never miss a vegan event in St. Louis: with 50+ events a year, from markets to ice cream socials to holiday feasts, there's always something sweet on the calendar. Join our mailing list, and if this guide helped you, consider volunteering or donating to keep resources like this free for everyone.
Know a vegan sweets spot we missed? Contact us. This is a living guide, and St. Louis keeps getting sweeter.
