Who doesn’t love a good drool-worthy #vegancakes scroll through Instagram? These tantalizing images of towering, tricked-out, buttercream-adorned desserts are fun to fantasize about, but also come with a generous serving of FOMO.
When you spot a gorgeous cake but live 500 miles away, consider cake by mail. Many of the skilled, independent vegan bakers that make you swoon on Instagram have broken through the distance barrier and configured a way to ship their edible creations nationwide (or at least within the continental US). Thanks to precise planning and a fair share of dry ice, you can now Instagram your cake and eat it, too!
Is cake always vegan?
If you walk into a regular bakery, you’ll usually find that most of the cakes are made with animal products, like eggs, milk, and butter. But increasingly, more bakeries are catering to vegan tastes (or they’re totally vegan!).
Erin McKenna’s Bakery
Instead of milk and butter, most opt for plant-based varieties to make their tasty concoctions, like oat milk or sunflower spread. And instead of eggs, a wide variety of ingredients can be used, like aquafaba, for example. For more guidance on replacing chicken eggs in baking, read our guide to egg replacements.
Where to buy vegan cake: 9 bakeries to order from right now
Got a craving for vegan cake? Here are nine different bakeries you can order from right now.
Erin McKenna’s Bakery
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Erin McKenna’s Bakery
Say it with us: Cinnamon. Crumb. Cake. Those three words alone have the power to trigger anyone to whip out their credit card. Celebration or not, you need this now. This includes Celiac-sufferers as well—all of the baked goods at Erin McKenna’s Bakery are gluten-free, soy-free, and often free of refined sugar.
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Yvonne’s Vegan Kitchen
2 Yvonne’s Vegan Kitchen
Yvonne is the woman you call when you want a one-of-a-kind, special occasion cake. While her more intricate design work is only available for local pickup or delivery in the Pasadena, CA area, she ships her best-selling cake flavors nationwide, along with her chocolate-covered cake doughnuts and addictively good cookies. Pull up her website, and you could have a scrumptious, gluten-free Chocolate Creme de Menthe cake in your fridge by the end of the week.
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Southern Roots Vegan Bakery
3 Southern Roots Vegan Bakery
For a full-sized cake to feed a crowd, Southern Roots’ trendy “naked cakes” are available in Funfetti, Chocolate Luxury, red velvet, and Lemon (the last of which is made using a tried-and-true family recipe passed down two generations). Approved by vegan celeb Tabitha Brown, you can’t go wrong ordering at this Black-owned San Antonio, TX bakery.
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Daisy Cakes
4 Daisy Cakes
Whether you’re in the market for a cute cupcake jar or a full-sized cake, Daisy Cakes can ship it. The vegan-friendly bakery offers a variety of plant-based Minikins (cake jar) flavors, including carrot, red velvet, and sprinkle-dotted Happy Birthday. But if you’re on the search for a full-sized cake, the golden raisin-studded carrot cake slathered in vegan cream cheese is worthy of any celebration.
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Vegan Bake Shoppe
5Vegan Bake Shoppe
Tasty, allergen-friendly treats are abundant at this Charlotte, NC-based vegan bakery. The perfectly fluffy, sweet, and moist cakes are ideal for any celebration or treat-yourself day. Flavors include Chocolate Oreo, Fudgelicious, Luscious Lemon, and Not My Aunt’s Red Velvet. Plus, the bakery’s delectable treats are free of nuts and soy. To that we say, vegan cake for all!
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Giselle’s Vegan Kitchen
6 Giselle’s Vegan Kitchen
There is some sort of wizardry happening in the back kitchen of Giselle’s quaint storybook shop. The towering cake creations on display taste divine without the use of refined sugar, gluten, or animal products. Flavors range from a simple yet beautiful Golden Vanilla Cake to an opulent Brownie Cookie Dough Cake and gorgeously decorated bundt cakes. We’ve set out to try them all.
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Coco Luv Cookies
7 Coco Luv Cookies
Funfetti. Peanut Butter Chocolate. Lemon Blueberry. Have you clicked the link yet? This Black-owned bakery makes irresistible cakes—from cupcakes to cookie cakes. And with gluten-free options for nearly everything on their menu, there’s enough cake to go around.
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Hot Cakes
8 Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery
Imagine reaching into your freezer any time you craved a personal pot of molten chocolate cake. Thanks to this Seattle-based niche bakery, you don’t have to imagine anymore; you can live it. These individual-sized vegan chocolate cakes can be ordered virtually anywhere in the US, and they last in the freezer for a year. Clean out your ice cream pints and make room to stockpile your freezer with cake.
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Dessert Gallery
9 Dessert Gallery
Dessert Gallery has been serving up sweet treats to Houston since the 1990s, and now you can order those same treats—lovingly made by baker and founder Sara Brook—for nationwide shipping. The bakery offers two indulgent vegan cake options: the ultra-chocolatey Vegan Mom’s Chocolate Cake and the colorful Vegan French Vanilla Cake.
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Flour Shop
10Flour Shop
There’s a good chance you’ve heard of Flour Shop before. The bakery’s cakes, crafted by cake artist Amirah Kassem, are known for their vibrant, creative, and colorful designs. Kassem created the viral Explosion Cake, which spills out candy or sprinkles when sliced open. Good news for vegans: Flour Shop offers four plant-based options, including cake push pops, a sprinkle cake, a rainbow ice cream cake, and a vegan Explosion Cake.
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Sweet Laurel Bakery
11 Sweet Laurel Bakery
Los Angeles–based Sweet Laurel Bakery specializes in creating delicious cakes made with wholesome ingredients. All of its cakes are gluten-free, dairy-free, and refined sugar-free, and they’re suitable for Paleo diets. For a vegan treat, try the Chocolate Vegan Keto Cake, which is sweetened with monk fruit and made with coconut whipped cream and cacao.
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We Take the Cake
12 We Take the Cake
Fun fact: Florida’s We Take the Cake is one of Oprah Winfrey’s favorite bakeries. The billionaire talk show host loves its Key Lime Bundt Cake, but that one isn’t vegan. Don’t worry, though, because you can still indulge. The Gluten-Free Vegan Chocolate 4-Layer Cake is calling your name.
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Southern Girl Desserts
13 Southern Girl Desserts
We Take the Cake might not have a vegan Bundt cake, but Southern Girl Desserts does—phew. The Los Angeles bakery was founded in the 2000s and is still going strong, whipping up sweet treats inspired by the founder’s grandmother’s recipes. According to the bakery, its vegan Bundt cakes are “large, moist, and taste like they came out of your Southern grandmother’s kitchen!”
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Madame Zuzu’s Emporium
14 Madame Zuzu’s Emporium
Highland Park’s Madame Zuzu’s Emporium, founded by Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan and designer Chloe Mendel Corgan, isn’t strictly a bakery. It’s more of a vegan tea shop and restaurant, but it offers delicious cakes, too. For a taste, order one of its Vegan Stuffed Kitchen Sink Cookie Cakes for delivery right to your door. While you’re there, you might also add a Vegan Grandma Jojo’s Meatball Sub Kit or some vegan carrot lox. Just a thought.
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Good Cakes & Bakes
15 Good Cakes & Bakes
April Anderson is a James Beard Foundation–recognized chef, so you know her cakes are going to be truly next level. Her business is based in Detroit, but thanks to Goldbelly, you can order her cakes straight to your door. Not all of the cakes are vegan, but the Organic Vegan Carrot Cake more than makes up for it.Find it here
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