Best Dessert Spots in Austin
Austin, Texas — updated August 24, 2026
Five independent Austin bakeries and dessert counters, ranked by how convincing their reviews are, from a north-side shop with a near-perfect score to a Hancock Drive kitchen that closes Tuesdays.
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Austin's dessert scene clusters more than people expect: three of the five places below sit within about a mile of each other along or just off Burnet Road, which makes a north-central bakery crawl genuinely walkable in parts. The rest are scattered from Bluebonnet Lane in 78704 to East Anderson Lane. Ratings below are ordered by how settled the evidence is, not just by the number on the star line.
1. Sweet Charli Girl
The highest-rated dessert stop on this list by a clear margin: 4.9 across 267 reviews, which is a large enough sample that the score is unlikely to be a fluke of a few enthusiastic friends. It sits at 1300 E Anderson Ln, Building D, in north Austin, a strip-center address rather than a walk-by storefront, so plug the building letter into your map before you go. The brief we work from does not list a menu, so go without a fixed order in mind and ask what came out of the oven that morning.
2. ThoroughBread Bakery
A 4.7 average from 287 reviews puts ThoroughBread just behind Sweet Charli Girl on score and close on sample size, and it is the only entry here in 78704. The address, 1709 Bluebonnet Ln, is off South Lamar in a residential pocket, which tends to mean weekend mornings are the busy stretch and street parking is the limiting factor. Bakery-first rather than dessert-counter-first, so it suits people who want to buy a box and take it somewhere rather than sit down with a scoop.
3. Tiny Pies® - Burnet Rd.
The Burnet Road location, at 5035 Burnet Rd #100, holds a 4.5 across 456 reviews. That is the second-largest review count on this list, and a 4.5 that has survived that many visits is more dependable than a higher score from a hundred. A pie shop by name and format, which makes it the practical choice when you need something to carry to a dinner rather than eat standing up. It is a short walk from Kellie's and a few minutes from épicerie, if you are making a route of it.
4. épicerie
The most reviewed place here by a distance, with 1,032 reviews behind a 4.4, and the only one where dessert is part of a full restaurant and grocery operation at 2307 Hancock Dr. Check the day before you drive: it is closed Tuesdays, open 10am to 9pm Monday and Wednesday through Friday, 9am to 9pm Saturday, and 9am to 3pm Sunday, so Sunday afternoons cut off early. Mad Dog pancakes run Thursdays only, 10am to 3pm. The kitchen also posts seasonal menus, including a Mardi Gras run alongside the regular list.
5. Kellie's Baking Co.
A 4.6 from 86 reviews, and the thinnest evidence on this list by some way, so treat it as promising rather than proven. It is at 5245 Burnet Rd, a few hundred yards up from Tiny Pies, which makes it easy to add to a trip you were already making. The bakery keeps its own site at kelliesbakingco.com, worth checking for hours before heading over, since small independent bakeries in this stretch often close once the day's baking sells out.
What we left off
Three names from the earlier version of this guide are gone. The Baked Bear (4.6, 731 reviews) and Tiff's Treats Cookie Delivery (4.4, 363 reviews) are both multi-location operations rather than single-city independents, and this list is limited to the latter. Texas Farmers' Market at Mueller rates well, at 4.7 from more than 1,300 reviews, but it is a weekly market rather than a dessert shop, and a guide to dessert spots should send you somewhere with a counter and set hours.