Unique Sweets

Delicious options in Austin to keep you cool; a special sundae at Cow Tipping Creamery; authentic Italian gelato at Dolce Neve; vegan ice cream at Sweet Ritual.

Doughnuts with bold glaze and boozy fillings; customized minidoughnuts; seasonal, silky cream fillings.

Quin Candy; the Roman Candle Baking Company; Kyra's Bakeshop.

Southern desserts are noted for their sweetness and the Southerners' fondness for eating fried foods.

Visiting sweet places to start the day in Los Angeles; artisanal doughnuts fried fresh all day long; decadent stuffed French toast; Koreatown buns.

A gourmet spin on the crispy rice treat in New York City; unique, developed flavors in ice pop form in Atlanta; ice cream and dessert beers in Seattle.

Doughnut seeds at the Doughnut Plant; French bistro creations at Lafayette; wafels at Wafels & Dinges.

Golden Brown Delicious - the perfect way to describe the doughnuts at this new hotspot, Then Cupcakes Actually.

Perfect cookies with delicious fillings make for amazing cookie sandwiches.

Mini layer cakes at Cake Monkey Bakery in Los Angeles; pies at Tiny Pies in Austin, Texas; a twist on classic French pastries at Canele by Celine.

A Seattle shop that imagines pies on sticks or in jars; a San Francisco baker who likes his pies on the spicy side; deliciously peculiar and uniquely down-home pies from New York City.

Fran's Chocolates, a pioneer in the European style of artisan chocolate making and eminence in Seattle; Dahlia Bakery serves amazing cakes and donuts.

Uncovering eateries in Asheville, N.C., that are serving up desserts.

Union Square Donuts for peanut butter marshmallow cream donuts; Flour Bakery for brioche; Area Four for chocolate espresso B cookie and craquelin.

High Point Creamery in Denver serves unusual ice cream flavors; Pizzeria Locale in Boulder for biscotti, butterscotch budino, or saltimbocca- baked pizza dough; Glaze in Denver for German layered cakes called baumkuchen.

Vegan delights with everything from berries and mint to donut sandwiches; Halva Tahini donut; Portuguese-style donuts fried and coated with sugar.

Morgentern's Finest Ice Cream in New York; Publican Quality Meats in Chicago; Fior di Latte in Colorado.

Updating classic desserts; vegan cupcakes in Austin, Texas; resurrecting vintage cake recipes in Los Angeles.

Aiko Pops in Denver serves raspberry and sweet corn ice pops; Empire Biscuits in NYC serves biscuits with roasted duck fat-thyme butter spread; Cacao Sweets and Treats outside of Chicago serves carrot cake cinnamon rolls with cream cheese icing.

Sweet brunch specialties; Hawaiian flavors with Italian techniques to make frozen sweets; out-of-the-box dessert creations.

Moojo uses customized ice cream sandwiches made with warm cookies to help keep Austin weird; Hail Mary in Brooklyn serves American classics with colorful, modern makeovers.

Sugar Mama's Bakeshop serves up sweet surprises, like chocolate malted milkshake cupcakes and shortbread unicorns with edible glitter; Churro Co. is giving churros decadent toppings like buttery popcorn sugar and vanilla ice cream.

Rudy's Bakery and Cafe puts its own spin on classics like German chocolate cake; La Nueva bakery serves signature Uruguayan sandwich cookies; Norma's comes up with creations like the Frankencrispie: part brownie, part cookie and part cereal bar.

All natural flavored milks including gingerbread and peanut butter; Lemon Ricotta doughnut; calleda crookie.

Unique takes on childhood favorites.

Ice cream shop adds cocktails to the mix-ins; produce added into hyper-seasonal cupcakes; unroasted and raw chocolate.

Brain Freeze Nitrogen Ice Cream Lab in Miami offers a mad scientist challenge to eat 30 scoops of ice cream in 30 minutes; Spot Dessert Bar in New York City serves Asian-inspired plated desserts, including a twist on the classic chocolate lava cake.

Trigger fond food memories with these uniquely updated classics.

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