There are very few problems that can’t be made at least a little better by walking into a bakery. Whether you’re picking up dessert for book club, arriving at the office with a box of croissants (instant popularity), ordering a birthday cake or simply deciding that an ordinary Tuesday requires something covered in butter and sugar, the best bakeries in Spokane give us plenty of reasons to indulge. And Spokane’s bakery scene is genuinely good. We’ve got old-school neighborhood favorites, beautiful French patisseries, artisan bread makers and wonderfully creative little shops turning out flaky croissants, gooey cinnamon rolls, towering cakes, cookies, pies, fresh-baked bread and the kind of pastries you fully intended to save for later but somehow ate in the car.
For this guide to the best bakeries in Spokane, Washington, we’re looking for so much more than a just pretty pastry case. After all, you can’t judge a book by its cover, even if it’s sugar. We want the place you recommend without hesitation and the one thing you insist everyone orders when they get there. We want beautiful technique, quality ingredients, consistency and creativity, but we also want personality. Give us the perfectly laminated croissant, but also give us the weird little seasonal pastry we can’t stop thinking about three days later. From downtown Spokane to Spokane Valley and neighborhoods throughout the area, these are the Spokane bakeries we return to for artisan bread, cakes, cookies, pastries and those completely unnecessary treats that somehow become very necessary once you’re standing in front of the bakery case. Bookmark this one. You’re going to need it.
Fireweed
1516 W Riverside Ave Ste 102 Spokane, WA
NEW! Fireweed is a standout for thoughtfully crafted baked goods made with quality ingredients, serious pastry technique and plenty of creativity. Owner and pastry chef Lynette Pfleuger is deeply passionate about her craft, and you can see that attention to detail in everything coming out of the kitchen. The menu rotates regularly, balancing beautifully executed classics with flavors that feel fresh, seasonal and just a little unexpected, which means this is absolutely a bakery worth checking in on often to see what’s new. Their signature canelé is utter perfection, and I genuinely can’t stop thinking about it. The deeply caramelized, crisp exterior gives way to a soft, custardy center with the ultimate crumb and just the right amount of chew. It’s one of those deceptively simple pastries where technique is everything, and Fireweed nails it. The chocolate chip cookie was especially life-changing, with exactly the kind of texture and rich, buttery flavor that makes you wonder why every chocolate chip cookie can’t taste like this.
What I especially love about Fireweed is that there isn’t a single item in the case that won’t delight you. The rotating selection makes choosing genuinely difficult, with sweet and savory options, expertly laminated pastries, cookies, biscuits and seasonal creations that showcase just how much thought is going into the menu. Everything feels intentional without becoming overly precious, and that’s exactly the kind of bakery we love to see opening in Spokane: technically excellent, creative, ingredient-driven and still completely approachable. Fireweed is a delicious addition to Spokane’s ever-growing bakery scene, and everything on the menu is next-level, so you’ll never be led astray.
TNW Recommendation: The biscuits are an absolute must-try, especially the Everything Bagel Biscuit with cream cheese. Savory, buttery, tender and packed with everything-bagel flavor, it’s a delicious departure from the typical sweet bakery treat and exactly the kind of thing we’d happily build an entire morning around.
Chaps
4237 Cheney Spokane Rd. Spokane, WA
Chaps is one of those places that feels inextricably woven into Spokane’s food story. For years, this beloved local institution has been as much about the experience as the food, with a warm, wonderfully eclectic atmosphere, friendly hospitality and bakery cases that make it nearly impossible to walk straight to your table without stopping to look. Breakfast may be what gets many people through the door, but the pastries deserve their own trip. Expect beautiful, generously sized baked goods made with the kind of attention that turns something as simple as coffee and a pastry into a proper morning out. Croissants, scones, cookies, cakes and other rotating treats share space with the hearty breakfast and brunch dishes Chaps has become known for, making this an especially good choice when half the table wants pastries and the other half wants a full breakfast.
Now under new ownership, Chaps is entering a new chapter while holding onto the warmth and hospitality that made generations of Spokane diners fall in love with it in the first place. And that’s important to us when we’re talking about the best bakeries in Spokane. A bakery doesn’t have to be a pristine little patisserie devoted exclusively to laminated dough to earn a place on this list. Sometimes it’s the restaurant where you linger over breakfast, order another round of coffee and inevitably leave carrying a pastry you absolutely did not need. Chaps has personality in abundance, a strong sense of place and the comfortable familiarity of somewhere Spokane has been gathering for years. Whether you’re settling in for a leisurely weekend breakfast, meeting a friend for coffee or stopping specifically to see what’s waiting in the pastry case, Chaps remains one of those quintessentially Spokane places worth returning to.
TNW Recommendation: Get the croissant. Buttery, beautifully flaky and golden on the outside with a soft, tender center, it’s everything a really good croissant should be. Simple proof that sometimes you don’t need to mess with a good thing – it’s iconic.
Boots Bakery
19 W Main Ave. Spokane, WA
Located inside Saranac Commons in downtown Spokane, Boots Bakery & Lounge has been proving since 2012 that plant-based and gluten-free food can be every bit as decadent, comforting and downright fun as anything else in the pastry case. Everything is made from scratch, and the selection changes constantly, which means you might find gooey cinnamon rolls, thick chocolate brownies piled high with frosting and toppings, chewy ginger cookies, cupcakes or one of their wildly creative rotating desserts alongside longtime favorites like their absolutely unreal pumpkin waffle (that happens to be gluten-free). And Boots doesn’t stop at sweets. The colorful savory case might hold creamy mac and cheese, curried lentils, smoky paprika yams and greens, buffalo cauliflower and chickpeas, roasted vegetables, German potato salad, corn fritters or whatever else the kitchen has dreamed up that day. Order a full plate or build a trio of sides when choosing just one feels impossible.
Scratch-made treats from Boots Bakery & Lounge, a downtown Spokane favorite for plant-based and gluten-free baked goods.
What makes Boots particularly special is that it never feels like a bakery built around what you can’t eat – it’s egalitarian by nature. The entire philosophy is about abundance, creativity and making good food accessible to more people. If you’re vegan, gluten-free or simply someone who knows a great brownie when you see one, they’ll hook you up without fear. Add espresso and coffee, a relaxed Saranac Commons atmosphere and a bakery case that gives you a legitimate reason to check back regularly, and it’s easy to understand why Boots has become such a downtown Spokane staple.
TNW Recommendation: The Oreo Brownie is a must-try. The brownie is rich, fudgy and packed with chocolatey Oreo flavor, it’s the perfect pick when you’re craving something indulgent.
Dear CoCo
24 W Main Ave
Located in the heart of downtown Spokane, Dear CoCo is equal parts bakery, coffee shop and beautifully layered little escape, with exposed brick, sumptuous velvet seating, vintage treasures and European-inspired details that make the entire space feel collected rather than decorated. The bakery case is reason enough to stop, filled with flaky croissants, cinnamon rolls, bright lemon bars and their famously enormous pistachio croissants, but don’t overlook the savory side of the menu. Think warm biscuits slathered with jam, thick slices of bread and toast, seasonal quiche, comforting bowls of soup and other thoughtfully made café fare alongside locally roasted coffee. Even their bread pudding gets the CoCo treatment, made with buttery laminated croissants rather than ordinary bread for an extra-rich, custardy bite.
But what we really love about Dear CoCo is that it doesn’t feel designed to rush you back out the door. This is a place for lingering over coffee on a velvet sofa, splitting a pastry with a friend, wandering through the petite collection of gifts and vintage-inspired finds, or ordering something sweet simply because Tuesday needed improving. There’s whimsy everywhere you look, but underneath all that prettiness is genuinely comforting food and the kind of warm, personal atmosphere that’s increasingly hard to find.
TNW Recommendation: Don’t leave without trying the famous maple scones. Sweet, buttery and perfectly suited for a slow morning with a cup of coffee, these scones are a Dear CoCo favorite for good reason.
Lilac City Bakery
N. Ruby Street Spokane, WA
Lilac City Bakery is a sweet spot for anyone who firmly believes cake absolutely belongs at breakfast, and frankly, we don’t need that kind of negativity from anyone who disagrees. Known for beautifully decorated custom cakes and cookies, this locally owned Spokane bakery is just as tempting when you’re stopping in without a celebration on the calendar. The case offers plenty of reasons to make an ordinary morning a little more interesting, with cinnamon rolls, pastries and rotating treats alongside their popular cake parfaits, which give you all the layers of cake, frosting and filling without having to explain why you bought yourself an entire cake. Although, to be clear, we would support that decision too.
Lilac City Bakery is also a go-to for the big occasions, offering custom cakes and wedding cake tastings alongside the everyday treats that keep us coming back. That’s something we love in a bakery: the ability to create the centerpiece for one of the biggest days of your life while still being the place you can pop into when you just really need a pastry. There is an approachable, celebratory quality to everything here, whether you’re planning a wedding, ordering a birthday cake or standing in front of the case trying to justify taking home three different things. This is exactly the kind of Spokane bakery we want on our list: locally rooted, creative and equally capable of handling life’s milestones and its random Tuesday-afternoon sugar emergencies.
TNW Recommendation: The Huckleberry Cream Cheese Danish. Sweet, slightly tangy huckleberries meet rich cream cheese and flaky pastry for a combination that feels particularly decadent for this time of year.
Just American Desserts
213 S University Rd Spokane Valley | 5613 S Perry St Spokane
If you only visit one – stop here first. It’s a Spokane classic, and it’s been around for over three decades. These beautiful desserts show up at birthdays, weddings, graduations, office parties and family celebrations year after year and everyone will ask you, “Where did you get THIS?!” Their cakes are the best tasting in town – they’re made from scratch with ingredients like real butter, whipping cream, sour cream, pure chocolate and fresh fruit, and the selection goes well beyond the standard chocolate-or-vanilla decision. Depending on the day, you’ll find slices of layer cake, cheesecakes, cupcakes, cookies, lemon bars, truffles and other rotating desserts waiting in the case, making this just as good a stop for an afternoon sugar emergency as it is for ordering the centerpiece of a major celebration.
They are known for their rock-solid consistency with a side of nostalgia. Just American Desserts has spent decades getting really, really good at the classics that we all crave: generous layer cakes, rich cheesecakes and familiar flavors made with the highest quality ingredients they can get their hands on. You can still visit the original Spokane Valley bakery at 213 S. University Road, and Just American Desserts also has a South Hill presence at 5613 S. Perry St. But, if you’re ordering a wedding cake, be sure to get on their list months in advance – it fills up quickly.
TNW Recommendation: Try the Washington Apple Cake with Salted Caramel. Packed with cozy apple flavor and finished with rich, buttery salted caramel, it tastes like everything we love about fall in the Inland Northwest turned into a cake. Sweet, a little salty and wonderfully nostalgic, this is the one we’d bring to a dinner party and then secretly hope no one finishes so we could take a slice home.
Made with Love Bakery
2023 W Dean Ave Spokane, WA
Made With Love Bakery is exactly the kind of neighborhood bakery we love finding in Spokane: warm, welcoming and filled with the sort of handmade treats that make it very difficult to walk out with only what you came in for. For nearly a decade, this locally owned bakery has been creating classic favorites alongside more playful, seasonal offerings, with a case that rewards stopping by just to see what’s fresh that day. You’ll find beautifully decorated cakes and cupcakes, cookies, bars, scones and other rotating baked goods, with flavors shifting throughout the year to make the most of the season.
Made With Love is equally at home handling the everyday bakery run and the celebrations that deserve something a little more special. Custom cakes, cupcakes and desserts make it an easy choice for birthdays, showers, weddings and gatherings, but we especially love bakeries that don’t require an occasion to visit. That’s part of what earns Made With Love a place on our list of the best bakeries in Spokane. There’s craftsmanship here, but also comfort, personality and the simple pleasure of walking up to a pastry case without knowing exactly what you’re going to order. Come hungry, see what looks good and trust your instincts. This is the kind of neighborhood bakery where the seasonal rotation gives you an excellent excuse to keep coming back.
TNW Recommendation: Make room for one of their scones. The flavors change with the seasons, so there’s almost always something new waiting in the case, but the formula remains wonderfully consistent: tender, buttery, just crumbly enough and exactly what you want next to a cup of coffee. If a seasonal flavor catches your eye, don’t overthink it. Get the scone.
Sweet Frostings
15 S Washington St | 10406 N Division St Suite 102 Spokane, WA
Sweet Frostings Blissful Bakeshop is one of those Spokane bakeries where walking in without a plan can quickly become a problem, mostly because suddenly you need six cupcakes instead of the one you came for. Ask me how I know.
Known for beautifully decorated cupcakes, cakes, cookies and other sweet treats, Sweet Frostings leans fully into the fun side of baking. The cases are filled with colorful frosting swirls, sprinkles, seasonal flavors and elaborately decorated creations that feel celebratory even when there isn’t technically anything to celebrate. Cupcakes are the star here, with a rotating assortment of flavors alongside familiar favorites, but you’ll also find cookies, cake pops, macarons and other grab-and-go treats depending on the day. It’s polished and playful without taking itself too seriously, and the shops themselves carry that same cheerful personality. This is the place to stop when you want dessert to feel like an event, even if the event is simply surviving the week.
Sweet Frostings is also particularly good at bridging the gap between an everyday bakery run and a full-scale celebration. You can pop in for a single cupcake or cookie, build a box of assorted treats for the office, or work with the bakery on custom cakes and desserts for birthdays, showers, weddings and other special occasions. That’s part of what has made it such a recognizable name in Spokane’s bakery scene: there is something approachable about being able to walk through the door and leave with a beautifully finished dessert without needing to order weeks ahead. It’s colorful, nostalgic, wonderfully over-the-top when the occasion calls for it and an easy choice when what you really want is a very good cupcake with a frankly unreasonable amount of frosting (just the way we like it).
TNW Recommendation: Go for the cupcakes and make yourself an assorted box. This is not the time to commit to one flavor. Pick a few classics, add whatever seasonal creation looks the most interesting and bring enough people along that you can justify cutting them into pieces and trying everything. Or don’t. We aren’t here to judge how many cupcakes constitute a serving.
TNW Recommendation: You can’t go wrong with the Chocolate Raspberry or Carrot Cake Cupcake. The chocolate raspberry offers a rich, chocolatey bite with a fruity twist, while the carrot cake is a classic choice with plenty of cozy spice and sweetness. Both are worth adding to your order, especially if you’re having trouble choosing just one!
miFLAVOUR
3403 E. Sprague Ave. Spokane WA
Walking into miFLAVOUR feels a little like stumbling into a jewel box of French pastry in the middle of Spokane. The cases are packed with glossy, almost impossibly beautiful mousse cakes, jewel-toned fruit tarts, delicate pavlovas, deeply caramelized kouign-amann, buttery croissants with hundreds of whisper-thin flaky layers, and rows of colorful macarons in flavors ranging from wild huckleberry and salted caramel to raspberry cheesecake and lemon. Everything feels meticulous, from the tiny handmade garnishes to the perfectly piped fillings and mirror-like finishes on their individual cakes. Owners Max and Ella Piskun took inspiration from the patisseries of Paris, and you can see it immediately in the attention to detail. This is pastry that is meant to be admired for a minute before you completely destroy it with a fork, and we mean that as the highest compliment.
But miFLAVOUR isn’t all style and no substance. Their pastries and desserts are made from scratch, and that extra effort comes through in the textures and flavors: crisp, buttery layers giving way to tender croissant centers, chewy-crisp macarons wrapped around silky fillings, rich chocolate balanced with bright fruit, and mousse cakes that somehow manage to feel decadent and feather-light at the same time. Add house-made Volonti gelato and sorbetto, crème brûlée, cakes, coffee and an ever-changing pastry case, and this is the kind of place where coming in for “just one thing” becomes nearly impossible. Our recommendation? Go early, order more than you think you need, absolutely get the kouign-amann if it’s in the case, and bring someone willing to split everything. miFLAVOUR is polished without being pretentious, playful without sacrificing technique, and one of those distinctly Spokane spots that can turn an ordinary Tuesday afternoon into an occasion.
Birdies Pie Shop
712 N Monroe St Spokane WA | 1003 N Spokane Post Falls ID| 9375 N Government Wy Hayden ID
Located on Monroe Street in Spokane, with additional locations in Post Falls and Hayden, Birdie’s Pie Shop is a local favorite for pie lovers throughout the Inland Northwest. Whether you’re planning a special occasion, bringing dessert to a family gathering, or simply satisfying a pie craving, Birdie’s offers both sweet and savory options. From classics like apple and pumpkin pie to hearty favorites like chicken pot pie, there’s something for just about every kind of pie lover.
TNW Recommendation: If you’re looking to try something a little different, we recommend the Italian Stallion. This savory pie is a delicious choice when you’re craving something hearty and unique, and it’s a standout among Birdie’s selection of savory offerings!
