Top Vegan Dessert Spots In Los Angeles, California

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Amara Kitchen is a charming café located in the Garvanza area of Highland Park that focuses on organic food, serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, and some great vegan desserts. Enjoy both indoor and outdoor seating while digging into the dark chocolate tart, buckwheat and date chocolate cake, gluten-free rosemary and fig scones, and gluten-free salted chocolate chip cookies.

Blue Star Donuts made its way down from Portland in fall of 2015. The donuts are made from a classic brioche recipe, which means the dough is made from scratch every day and takes about 18 hours to make. Along with favorites like the Blueberry Bourbon & Basil, Blue Star also offers a selection of delicious, seasonal vegan cake donuts. Expect choices like blueberry cake with classic blueberry bourbon basil glaze, sugar & spice cake, and a mimosa donut, a champagne-infused donut with a champagne glaze and orange marmalade.

CREAM serves up vegan banana chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, and chocolate fudge cookies with soy mint chocolate chip ice cream and soy vanilla ice cream. Located near the campus of USC, CREAM is a fun spot that is open late and makes customized ice cream sandwiches with seemingly endless combinations of cookies, ice cream, and toppings.

Erin McKenna’s Bakery is an all vegan, gluten-free, kosher bakery that is also soy and nut sensitive. Serving up classics such as old fashioned cake donuts (dressed up in all sorts of glazes and toppings) and spongy, dense, moist lemon teacake, it’s no surprise that even those who aren’t following any dietary restrictions or aren’t afflicted by allergies also become regulars at the bakery.

Menchie’s offers vegan, dairy-free alternatives, including a coconut milk flavor in addition to its lineup of fruit sorbets. The vegan-friendly froyo spot is home to a variety of tasty sorbets, including sweet pink lemonade sorbet, fudgy chocolate sorbet, and even the Disneyland favorite Pineapple Dole Whip soft serve. Menchie’s also offers an assortment of fresh fruits and dairy-free toppings like nuts, Oreos, and sprinkles.

After being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that forced her onto a plant based diet, Chef Susan Sbicca used her award winning talents to create an amazing non-dairy, egg free, soy free, gluten free treat: Millie’s Vegan Gelato. Using only the freshest vegan ingredients, Millie’s comes in a variety of delicious flavors like lemon raspberry cheesecake and mocha almond fudge butter. It even caters to those with nut allergies, with the mouthwatering vanilla coconut and strawberry coconut cream. This one of a kind gelato can be found at Erewhon Market, Beaming, Alfred Coffee, and Whole Foods locations throughout Southern California.

Although Moon Juice is known for juices and moon milks, it also offers ‘cosmic provisions,’ or put simply, delicious sweets. These cosmic provisions are an expanding selection of 100 per cent organic, sprouted, and raw sweets, including puddings, cookies, and confections that will seduce even the most sophisticated palate. With locations in Venice and Silverlake, vegans on both the westside and eastside of town can enjoy chocolate dipped cookies, chaga donuts, and maca walnut bundles.

Los Angeles’s home grown, small batch ice cream shop Sweet Rose Creamery churns out seasonal treats using organic products and farmers’ market produce. The menu from executive chef and co-owner Shiho Yoshikawa consists of imaginative, homespun frozen desserts made from the highest quality ingredients available. In addition to popular ice cream flavors like old fashioned vanilla and fresh mint with house made chocolate chips, the shop also offers a variety of vegan friendly options like coconut chocolate sorbet, yuzu lemon, and pomegranate grapefruit in five Los Angeles locations.

Yoga-urt is LA’s first all-vegan and organic soft serve store. Yoga-urt’s smooth and creamy soft serve is made fresh onsite from an almond and cashew base. Popular, rotating flavors of organic, dairy-free, gluten-free, soy-free, and kosher soft serve include chocolate bliss, salted caramel zen, and peanut butter prana with four strains of live probiotics added for digestive and immune health. For those who like their Yoga-urt in a cone, cones are handcrafted from scratch and are vegan and gluten-free. Don’t forget the toppings bar with many options such as vegan gummy bears, chocolate chips, strawberries, and dried mulberries.