Carina's: vegan, soy-free fika in Beaverton

Beaverton can feel like a long way to go for pastry until you actually make the drive out to Carina's Bakery at 4725 Southwest Lombard, Suite 108. It's a 100% vegan, 100% soy-free Scandinavian bakery that invites you in for fika any time. Carina is the owner and the shop carries her name, and the About page talks about her pastry-school training, her visual disability, and hiring people the kitchen can accommodate. It also says the bakery still feels like it's just getting started, even almost ten years in.

The one thing to get right here is gluten. As of June 2026, the bakery says about 90% of its products are gluten-free, but it isn't a dedicated gluten-free bakery, and if you ask whether everything is 100% GF, they'll tell you no. Items marked (gf) on Toast are gluten-free, so don't make assumptions about the unmarked ones. Everything is vegan and soy-free, and the bakery's own labels also say dairy-free, egg-free, plant-based and Scandinavian.

The current Toast menu is a delicious dilemma. Good places to start are the Almond Cake (gf), the Pistachio Cake (gf), a large cupcake (gf), the coconut Drømmekage (gf) or a donut (gf), or a cake roll slice if you don't want a whole cake. For cookies to eat on a walk there's Lemon Labrador, a jumbo chocolate cherry truffle, a caramel coconut patty, peanut butter delight, Sarah Bernhardt, Thin-O-Mint or a baker's-choice single, and the everyday cookies are chocolate chip, chocolate cinnamon crackle, molasses, oatmeal raisin, a spicy peanut butter snickerdoodle, pistachio shortbread and vanilla lime shortbread. Lunch can be a carrot lox smörgås, a cheeze-and-scallion biscuit, a deluxe biscuit sandwich, a mushroom schmeat pie, a sausage roll or the veggie pot pie, and the fresh mozz cheeze is made from cashew and coconut. Ice cream comes as scoops, pints, sandwiches and milkshakes, and if you brought the dog, there's a minty pup cup.

The hours trip people up, so confirm on Toast before you head out. The menu there has shown Monday through Wednesday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday through Saturday 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the bakery is closed on Labor Day.

Special orders go through Toast too, including kladdkakor, toscakakor, the large Scandinavian almond cake, pistachio cake, a jumbo cinnamon swirl and a cardamom bread ring as personal orders, marzipan tarts and cupcakes. The bakery hasn't published a wedding-cake program. If you can't get out to Beaverton, there's a Treat Drop for remote preorders, with a midnight Monday cutoff for the Wednesday route.

People come back because a vegan bakery that's also soy-free is rare, and a Scandinavian one that's set up for sitting down to fika is rarer still. Get the almond cake, a (gf) donut if they look good, and the carrot lox if you're there at lunchtime, and keep in mind that some of the case has gluten in it.

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