Vegan Bakery Near Me in Allapattah: Pamela Wasabi Bakery Pickup Guide

Pamela Wasabi Bakery is the Miami answer to a vegan bakery near me search if you are happy to order first and pick up second. Everything it makes is vegan and gluten-free, baked in a dedicated facility at 1602 NW 20th St. in Allapattah. The website invites you to order online or stop by. A single Cinnamon Roll is $7, and a box of twelve Halloween Donuts is $30 this October.

Hours run on a weekday schedule. The bakery lists Monday through Wednesday 9 am to 5 pm, Thursday 10 am to 5 pm and Friday 10 am to 3 pm, and the posted hours stop there, so there are no weekend pickups. Friday afternoons are the trap: the door closes at 3 pm. If you want a cake for a Saturday party, plan to collect it on Friday morning and keep it chilled overnight.

What sets this kitchen apart is that it was never a regular bakery that added a vegan shelf. Flours are brown rice, almond and oat, eggs are replaced with flax and chickpea purée, and coconut oil stands in for butter. The bakery calls dessert a cuisine of its own rather than a lesser version of conventional baking. One caution for allergies: the facility processes tree nuts, and almond flour appears in many recipes, including the cinnamon rolls.

Start with the Cinnamon Rolls, which the bakery recommends warming before you eat them. They sell at $7 for one, $24 for four or $70 for twelve, made with flax, coconut sugar, maple syrup and a brown rice, almond and oat flour blend. For a smaller sweet, the Carrot Spring Muffin is $5, and the Chocolate Lava Mini Bundt or the Pumpkin Spice Mini Bundt costs $7 each, or $25 for a case of four.

Cookies are big here: each one is listed at 4 ounces. The New Era Chocolate Chip, the Birthday Cake cookie and the seasonal Pumpkin Snickerdoodle cost $6.10 each or $48.80 for a box of eight. The Rocky Road cookie is $7.10, and the Queen of Matcha is $7. The Breakfast Protein cookie, at $8, is the one pitched as a morning snack. The Sunset Caramel Blondie is $6.20 and the Magic Chocolate brownie is $6.40.

October brings the Halloween Donut Collection. These are small cake-style donuts in Matcha Monster, Pink Pumpkin, Maple Vanilla and Charcoal flavors, with Halloween designs on top. A box of twelve is $30 and a box of twenty-four is $50. For a party, the Halloween Party Platter serves twenty to twenty-five people for $80. The everyday donut boxes, such as Churros and Matcha Dreamer, cost $28 for twelve.

The cheesecakes and pies are where the kitchen gets ambitious. A slice of Guava & Rose Cheesecake costs $11, and a full 9-inch cake is $75. The Mudslide slice is $11.50. The Matcha Strawberry Tiramisu is $13.50 a slice or $85 for a 9-inch pie, and the classic Tiramisu is $12 a slice or $80 for the 9-inch. Birthday cakes start at $150 for the Vanilla Innocence, and the fall Seasonal Cake in pumpkin spice or carrot is also $150.

The best tactic is to treat it like a bakery counter you book in advance. Order on the website the day before, choose store pickup, and turn up within the posted hours. Single items such as cookies, muffins and cinnamon rolls are sold in ones, so you do not have to buy a box to try something. Because there is no weekend pickup, order early in the week if the treats are for a Saturday or Sunday.

The woman behind the name is Pamela Wasabi, a food artist and author. She describes rebuilding her diet after a chronic condition during pregnancy and later studied the psychology of eating, integrative nutrition and plant-based cooking. The company was established in 2016. It started by supplying local coffee shops and now bakes for restaurants, hotels, spas and franchises. She has written four books, from poetry to essays on women and food.

You may have eaten her desserts without visiting Allapattah. Wholesale is a large part of the business: restaurants and coffee shops order by Monday at 3 pm for Thursday delivery, and a Grab-N-Go line comes individually wrapped for café fridges. The bakery's Find a Store page lists stockists. The kitchen is also rented out by the hour or day to other vegan and gluten-free bakers, so the space is busy even when the pickup door is quiet.

The bakery also teaches. Virtual cooking classes are on the calendar for October 20 at $50 and for November 10 and December 1 at $40 each, booked through the same online shop. The website's news page posts recipes and baking tips, and in September it promoted National Cinnamon Roll Day on October 4. If you want to learn gluten-free vegan baking at home, the classes are the cheapest way into her methods.

Pair the pickup with Allapattah's art scene. The Rubell Museum, the contemporary collection that moved from Wynwood into converted warehouses, is at 1100 NW 23rd St., about a mile away. Allapattah is also Miami's wholesale produce district, so the trip pairs a box of cinnamon rolls with an afternoon of galleries and fruit stands. Wynwood's murals are a short drive east.

The phone has a California area code, but it is the bakery's listed number. Pickup is at 1602 NW 20th St., Miami, FL 33142, weekdays only. Every item is vegan and gluten-free, many contain almonds, and the shop does local delivery. It suits vegans, coeliacs, anyone planning a party dessert and travelers who can plan a day ahead.