Get Fresh Breads, Pastries and Halekūlani’s Famous Coconut Cake at This Oʻahu Bakery
Halekūlani Bakery in Waikīkī is now open daily.
If you love the famous coconut cake from Halekūlani—and trust us, if you’ve ever had it, you’d love it—now you can get it any day of the week without having to dine at the iconic Waikīkī hotel.
Halekūlani Bakery, which first opened in 2019, serves artisanal breads, pastries, croissants and, yes, the hotel’s coconut cake (whole or by the slice), all freshly baked on site. It’s located across the street from the hotel and adjacent to the lobby of the Halepuna Waikīkī by Halekūlani, with specialty coffees and indoor and outdoor seating.
Starting in March, the bakery expanded its hours to 6:30 to 11:30 a.m. daily.
Inside the Halekūlani Bakery.
Photo: Courtesy of the Halekūlani
Many of the desserts and breads served here are baked on site, in the 887-square-foot kitchen and prep space behind the counters. (There’s even a small chocolate room.) The rest of the pastries and baked goods are made in the hotel’s kitchen across the street. Everything, including the puff pastry and laminated dough used for croissants, are made from scratch, explains Halekūlani Bakery pastry chef Michelle Baldomero, who has worked in the kitchens here for 26 years.
And the pastry team churns out a lot of baked goods, serving both the bakery and the hotel’s restaurants and room service.
For example, the bakery makes between 120 and 150 plain croissants—just the plain ones!—a day. It also bakes between 15 and 20 9-inch coconut cakes—its best-selling cake—a day.
The Halekūlani Bakery offers several different kinds of croissants every day, all made from scratch in house.
Photo: Catherine Toth Fox
The bakery recently unveiled some new items, including a fig and prosciutto danish—my fave—coconut danish, pineapple-ginger danish and matcha cream pan. It offers seasonal specials, too, including hot cross buns and carrot cake croissants for Easter.
Pastries at the Halekūlani Bakery.
Photo: Catherine Toth Fox
You can buy the coconut cake as a whole or slice. You can also preorder the cake — or the strawberry shortcake or chocolate truffle cake — with 72-hour notice.
Park is at the Halepuna Waikīkī by Halekūlani lot. The bakery validates parking up to four hours.
Halekūlani Bakery, 2233 Helumoa Road, Honolulu, (808) 921-7272, halekulani.com
