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Best Holiday Donuts & Baked Goods in Portland
Portland's holiday season tastes like gingerbread donuts, buche de Noel and fresh sufganiyot, with bakeries all over town going festive. Here are the holiday treats we send friends to, grouped by neighborhood so you can plan your route.
By the Underground Donut Tour team · Updated November 2026
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DOWNTOWN / OLD TOWN
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Sesame Donuts
Our holiday tour starts here, near the South Park Blocks, with handcrafted donuts dressed up with a festive twist. The glazed classics are soft, fresh and the perfect warm-up on a chilly morning.
Donut Tour Recommends: Festive Seasonal Donut
DOWNTOWN / OLD TOWN
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Voodoo Doughnut
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Portland's famous pink box goes full holiday mode with a Holiday Half Dozen starring a Gingerbread Doll, an Eggnog Old Fashioned and a Sugar Cookie Snowman. The Old Town original is still the place for a Bacon Maple Bar too.
Donut Tour Recommends: Gingerbread Doll (seasonal)
DOWNTOWN / OLD TOWN
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Lil' Funky Donuts
Bite-sized donuts fried to order inside Pine Street Market, tossed in festive flavors for the season. A cup of warm minis is the perfect holiday snack while you wander downtown.
Donut Tour Recommends: Festive Mini Donuts
GOOSE HOLLOW
Blue Star Donuts
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Blue Star's rich brioche dough makes a buttery base for its Hanukkah sufganiyot, filled with an orange blossom and berry twist. The colder months bring cozy flavors to the rest of the case too. Preorder the holiday batch.
Donut Tour Recommends: Orange Blossom and Berry Sufganiyot
NORTHWEST PORTLAND
Ken's Artisan Bakery
This landmark bakery turns out a showstopping buche de Noel for the holidays, rolled and frosted like a woodland yule log. The crusty breads and flaky croissants are legendary year-round.
Donut Tour Recommends: Buche de Noel
NORTHWEST PORTLAND
St. Honore Boulangerie
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This French boulangerie celebrates the season with a classic buche de Noel, including a gluten-free version. In January it's all about the galette des rois, complete with a paper crown.
Donut Tour Recommends: Galette des Rois (January)
CENTRAL EASTSIDE AND BUCKMAN
Delicious Donuts
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This beloved early-morning shop celebrates Lunar New Year with a Tet box of fluffy raised rounds and ube mochi donuts. The rest of the year it's classic glazed, fritters and filled donuts done right. Get there early.
Donut Tour Recommends: Tet Box (Lunar New Year)
CENTRAL EASTSIDE AND BUCKMAN
● Latino-owned
Dos Hermanos Bakery
Dos Hermanos bakes rosca de reyes for Three Kings Day in sweet and even savory styles, each hiding little figurines inside. The conchas and pan dulce are fan favorites year-round.
Donut Tour Recommends: Rosca de Reyes (January)
HAWTHORNE AND DIVISION
New Cascadia Traditional
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This dedicated gluten-free bakery fries up sufganiyot for Hanukkah, so everyone at the table can get in on the jelly donut fun. The breads and pastries are so good nobody misses the gluten.
Donut Tour Recommends: Gluten-Free Sufganiyot
HAWTHORNE AND DIVISION
Little T Baker
Little T's holiday Stolletone mashes up German stollen and Italian panettone into one fruity, buttery loaf. Steamed ginger pudding and molasses cookies round out a very festive case.
Donut Tour Recommends: Stolletone
HAWTHORNE AND DIVISION
Farina Bakery
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Farina's pastel macarons go festive for the holidays with flavors like chocolate mint and cherry amaretto. Gingerbread molasses cookies make it easy to fill a gift box.
Donut Tour Recommends: Holiday Macarons
HAWTHORNE AND DIVISION
Grand Central Bakery
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This hometown bakery bakes a holiday panettone that's perfect for Christmas morning toast. Peppermint shortbread cookies are classic cookie swap treats.
Donut Tour Recommends: Holiday Panettone
KERNS
● Asian-owned ● Women-owned
Mikiko Mochi Donuts
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These chewy, gluten-free mochi donuts get a festive makeover each December with flavors like peppermint bark, eggnog and gingerbread. The bouncy texture and bright glazes make them perfect for sharing.
Donut Tour Recommends: Peppermint Bark Mochi Donut (seasonal)
IRVINGTON
Helen Bernhard Bakery
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This century-old bakery is a holiday tradition, known for hand-decorated sugar shortbread cookies and a classic fruitcake. The donut case is old-school perfection too, with apple fritters and cake donuts.
Donut Tour Recommends: Decorated Holiday Shortbread Cookies
IRVINGTON
Twisted Croissant
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Twisted Croissant has celebrated Lunar New Year with a char siu croissant filled with sweet barbecue pork. The rest of the year the case is full of inventive croissants and cruffins.
Donut Tour Recommends: Char Siu Croissant (Lunar New Year)
HOLLYWOOD AND ROSE CITY PARK
● Women-owned
Doe Donuts
This all-vegan donut shop fills raspberry sufganiyot through Hanukkah and rolls out holiday flavors like a gingerbread latte donut. Plant-based or not, everyone leaves happy.
Donut Tour Recommends: Raspberry Sufganiyot
HOLLYWOOD AND ROSE CITY PARK
● Women-owned
Bakeshop
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Bakeshop's holiday gingerbread cake is warm, spicy and deeply comforting, and its Hanukkah lineup has brought rugelach and olive oil cake. The ginger molasses cookies are cozy favorites too.
Donut Tour Recommends: Gingerbread Cake
SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST PORTLAND
● Women-owned
Baker & Spice
This Hillsdale favorite goes all in for the holidays with stollen, buche de Noel and a spiced gingerbread bundt cake. Peppermint sandwich cookies make perfect stocking stuffers.
Donut Tour Recommends: Stollen
SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST PORTLAND
● Women-owned
Bella's Italian Bakery
Bella's brings an Italian Christmas to Lents with panettone, a festive yule log and trays of holiday cookies. Order ahead for the holidays, because these go fast.
Donut Tour Recommends: Panettone
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Portland Donut FAQ
Are these holiday spots ranked?
No. Every bakery and donut shop here is one we would happily send a friend to, so we list them by neighborhood instead of ranking them.
Is there a holiday donut tour in Portland?
Yes. Our Portland Downtown Holiday Donut Tour visits Sesame Donuts, Voodoo Doughnut and Lil' Funky Donuts in Pine Street Market, with festive flavors along the way. Lineups can vary by day and season.
Where can I find vegan or gluten-free holiday treats in Portland?
Doe Donuts is entirely vegan and fills sufganiyot for Hanukkah, New Cascadia Traditional is a dedicated gluten-free bakery, and Mikiko's mochi donuts are gluten-free.
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