Pipeline Bakeshop & Creamery

The Best Malassada Bakeries in Honolulu | Eater

"Opened by an alum of the famous local bakery last September in charming Kaimukī, this sweet café runs a serious malassada operation that fries to order but forgoes fillings, offering coatings like white, cocoa, coffee, or li hing (salty dried plum) sugar instead. The malassadas are notably super fluffy and crispy with a drier, breadier crumb than the island’s lightest examples—still light and springy—so they read more like a substantial baked good; riffs include malassada bread pudding and a Malamode filled with ice cream, and they travel well for takeout." - Hillary Dixler Canavan