Valhalla Bakery: The Vegan Bakery Orlando Keeps Decorating
No. 3 for bakeries in Orlando at 92.7 — and a 2026 PETA statewide nod for its vegan Key lime pie. How Valhalla Bakery on Old Cheney Highway wins over vegans and omnivores alike.
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The most decorated bakery on Orlando’s east side makes everything without eggs or dairy — and the decoration keeps coming anyway. Valhalla Bakery, at 5565 Old Cheney Hwy in East Orlando, ranks No. 3 in our Best Bakeries in Orlando rankings with a Net Score of 92.7. In March 2026, PETA gave its vegan Key lime pie a spot on the organization’s first statewide Kind Lime Pie list, praising a bright, creamy citrus filling in a graham cracker crust topped with dairy-free whipped cream — in mini and full sizes. The bakery category’s overall winner is profiled in our winner feature; Valhalla is the east side’s standard-bearer.
Vegan, without the apology
Valhalla’s own mission statement is the whole review in one line: to be a premier vegan bakery creating beautiful, delicious desserts that please vegans and omnivores alike. That second clause is the hard one, and it is where the bakery earns its ranking. The case is built on doughnuts, cakes, cupcakes, bars and pies engineered to be indulgent first and plant-based second — the kind of baking where the dietary information arrives as a surprise, after the eating. The Key lime pie is the current headline, but the bakery’s reputation was built the slow way, on custom cakes and a rotating case that rewards repeat visits.
The Old Cheney address, explained
Long-time customers may still associate Valhalla with Market on South near downtown, and older listings across the web point there — one reason the bakery confuses first-timers. The address in our rankings, confirmed by PETA’s 2026 release, is 5565 Old Cheney Hwy, Orlando, FL 32807, on the older East Colonial side of East Orlando, west of the university sprawl. PETA lists the Orlando shop’s hours as Wednesday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; the bakery also has a St. Petersburg location. Check the bakery’s own site before a Monday or Tuesday trip — this is a small operation, and its schedule is its own.
What to order
Start with the Key lime pie while it is having its moment — the award is specific, and the pie is the bakery’s calling card in both sizes. Add doughnuts if the case has them; they are the bakery’s other claim to fame, through its Valkyrie Doughnuts sibling brand. (A note for UCF-area readers: the Valkyrie shop on Corporate Boulevard near campus has closed — current listings mark it permanently closed — so Old Cheney is where the doughnut run happens now.) For celebrations, Valhalla’s custom vegan cakes are the east side’s default order, the cakes that end up at birthdays and weddings where half the guest list never learns what was missing.
The custom-cake operation
The case is the retail face; the back of the house is a cake studio. Valhalla’s own site describes two departments — a production team and a finishing and decorating team — which is the organizational chart of a bakery doing serious custom work, and the bakery’s wedding presence bears it out: it is listed on The Knot as an Orlando wedding-cake vendor, where couple after couple tells the same story of guests who never guessed the cake was vegan until told. Lavender frosting, lemon-and-raspberry layers, doughnut walls paired with a Valhalla cake — the custom program is where the bakery’s “pleases omnivores alike” mission gets stress-tested in front of a hundred people at once, and where its reputation beyond the vegan community was actually built.
Where it fits
Valhalla is the proof that East Orlando’s food scene is not only a student economy. It sits on the corridor’s older, residential side, draws from across the metro, and anchors the sweet end of our Where to Eat in East Orlando guide alongside the Lee Vista ice cream in our sweet-tooth roundup. Find it on the Top Spots Map — and go on a Wednesday-to-Sunday morning, when the case is fullest.
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