45+ Accidentally Vegan Cakes & Bakery Items

Missing your old favourite cakes and bakery items? You don’t have to any longer! This list of accidentally vegan cakes and bakes will show you just how many vegan-friendly options there are! Whether you’re missing doughnuts, pies or pastries, you’ll find out where to get them all in this post!

Happy Veganuary! If you’re a new vegan, you may have been exploring all of the available food options in the supermarkets. There are plenty of vegan foods to choose from these days but did you know many of your old favourite bakes and cakes are accidentally vegan too?

I’ve created posts for all of the accidentally vegan sweets, accidentally vegan biscuits, and now accidentally vegan cakes available to buy in the UK. I hope these lists will help you out on your vegan journey! Enjoy!

Asda Extra Special cakes

Some of Asda’s Extra Special cakes are accidentally vegan, like their sea salted caramel cake, chocolate orange cake and rhubarb and ginger cake.

Soreen Loaves

Almost Soreen cakes are accidentally vegan cakes. You can enjoy their delicious flavours such as cherry jellies, raspberry and white chocolate, apple, banana and strawberry. The only two non-vegan items listed on their website were the large Fruity 5 loaf and the pre-buttered slices.

Doughnuts

Surprisingly, there are actually a few different types of accidentally vegan doughnuts! Most long-time vegans know about Co-op accidentally vegan doughnuts but you might not know about some of the others. Here are the ones I could find:

• Co-op custard and jam doughnuts.
• Morrison’s bakery doughnuts. Most of Morrison’s doughnuts are accidentally vegan but there are a couple of flavours that are not so always make sure to double check the labels before purchasing. I personally recommend the salted caramel doughnuts!
• Sainsbury’s vanilla custard and jam doughnuts.
• Asda custard and jam doughnuts.
• Gregg’s glazed ring doughnuts. These are not so much accidentally vegan but I’m including them in this list because they haven’t always been vegan.

Pastries

When it came to writing about accidentally vegan cakes and bakery items, I had to include pastries! There are a few different brands that sell accidentally vegan pastries, which is interesting since they’re usually made with so much butter!

• St Pierre croissants
• Jus Rol croissants Jus Rol desserts are ready-to-bake; super low effort treats that feel homemade. You can find them in the chilled section of most large UK supermarkets, near the ready-to-roll pastry.
• Jus Rol cinnamon swirls
• Jus Rol pains au chocolat
• St Pierre pains au chocolat
• La Boulangere pains au chocolat. These are actually intentionally vegan but seeing as it’s so hard to find vegan pains au chocolat, I’ve included this brand in my list. They can be tricky to spot but you’ll find them in the bakery section in Sainsbury’s or you can get them online from Ocado.

Pies, tarts and strudels

Fruit pies, tarts and strudels are sometimes accidentally vegan, especially if you check the frozen section. Here are the options I could find:

• Tesco Bramley apple pie
• Aunt Bessie apple pie
• Mr Kipling apple & blackcurrant pies
• Sainsbury’s apple & blackcurrant pies
• Asda berry strudel
• Asda apple strudel
• Tesco berry strudel
• Tesco apple strudel
• Mr Kipling treacle tart
• Mr Kipling jam tarts
• Asda jam tarts

Aunt Bessie’s apple crumble

Aunt Bessie apple crumble is accidentally vegan and you can find it in the frozen section of most supermarkets. This would be perfect for serving warm with some homemade vegan custard. Yum!

Churros

Good news if you’ve been missing churros! The following brands are accidentally vegan:

• Tesco filled mini churros
• Morrison’s mini filled churros
• Waitrose churros with chocolate sauce

English Cheesecake company cheesecake bites

These mango & passion fruit frozen cheesecake bites are not marketed as being vegan but they are accidentally so!

Asda giant cookie

Asda’s giant birthday cookie is suitable for vegans. It tastes great and makes an interesting alternative to a birthday cake.

Teacakes

There are surprisingly quite a few accidentally vegan teacake options in the supermarkets:

• Tesco Finest teacakes
• Warburton’s fruity teacakes
• Asda teacakes
• Waitrose richly fruited teacakes
• M&S fruit filled luxury teacakes

Flapjacks

Often, flapjacks contain milk because they’re sometimes made with butter, but the following ones are accidentally vegan;

• Hobnobs oaty flapjack bars
• Norfolk Cake Co. cinnamon flapjack
• Morrison’s Market Town Bakery flapjack
• Graze chocolate cookie oat boosts
• All Graze flapjacks except honey cinnamon, lemon and cherry Bakewell.
• All Trek flapjacks are also vegan-friendly

I hope you’ve enjoyed this list of accidentally vegan cakes and bakery items. If there’s anything I’ve missed, please let me know so I can add it to the post! xo