The Best of the Zest: Vegan Key Lime Pie Award Winners

Ahead of Pi Day (March 14), PETA did the math and has calculated the best vegan Key lime pies from Florida’s bakers with its first-ever Kind Lime Pie awards. These delicious desserts prove that no matter how you slice it, vegan Key lime pies are a sweet deal for both confection connoisseurs and animals. Read on for all the sublime details.

The Best of the Zest: PETA’s First-Ever Kind Lime Pie Award Winners

1. The Best Key Lime Pie of Key West

Pie lovers, head to Moondog Cafe & Bakery and indulge in the eatery’s delectable mini vegan Key lime pie. It features smooth citrus curd with a hint of tropical coconut in a luscious pâte sucrée shell, topped with toasted meringue and garnished with fresh lime zest.

2. Don’t Hold the Applause at This Spot in Fort Lauderdale

Stephanie’s Vegan Bakery + Cafe offers an irresistible vegan Key lime pie, lavishly topped with fragrant, freshly zested lime and bursting with bright citrus in every bite.

3. Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth in Sarasota

Sarasota’s Green Zebra Cafe can satisfy any sweet tooth with its velvety Raw Key Lime Pie Cheesecake, featuring the natural sweetness of agave, dates, and coconut, and made irresistibly creamy with a rich blend of cashews, almonds, and walnuts.

4. A Taste of Heaven in Orlando and St. Petersburg

In Orlando and St. Petersburg, Valhalla Bakery offers mini and full-size Key lime pies with a vibrant, creamy filling and a luscious graham crust, topped with dairy-free whipped cream and a lime wedge.

5. You’ll Pucker Up With Zesty Goodness in Palm Beach

Farther south in Palm Beach Gardens and West Palm Beach, Christopher’s Kitchen delivers a crave-worthy cashew-based Key Lime Pie, sweetened with coconut palm sugar and dates and finished with lime zest and silky house-made vanilla cream.

Vegan Desserts Are a Treat for Your Taste Buds and for Animals

These winning pies show how chefs are reimagining one of America’s most iconic desserts without a single egg or drop of dairy. Vegan foods are kind to mother cows, who want to nurture their babies—but on dairy farms, workers take their calves away so the milk meant for them can be sold to humans. Mother hens suffer for non-vegan desserts too, as workers in the egg industry use them as egg-producing machines until their bodies give out and they’re sent to slaughter.

By choosing rich cashew creams, luscious coconut‑based fillings, and other delectable vegan options, you can help keep calves with their moms and hens with their flock. Go vegan today—PETA’s free vegan starter kit can help those looking to make the switch.