Dessert in Denver

Le Bakery Sensual

300 E. 6th Ave. Central Denver

303-777-5151

Bakery, Dessert, Retail, Services, Best Of, Sponsor, Menu

5 articles

Ba-Nom-a-Nom

Food Truck Central Denver

970-682-4666

Food Trucks, Vegan, Dessert

2 articles

Bambu

2125 S. Broadway South Denver

720-647-7141

Dessert, Tea

Bambu Desserts & Drinks

2058 S. University Blvd. South Denver

Vietnamese, Dessert

2 articles

Bambu Desserts & Drinks

1149 S. Federal Blvd. Southwest Denver

303-993-7444

Vietnamese, Dessert

3 articles

Bandoleros Neveria

2336 E. 46th Ave. North Denver

Dessert, Mexican

Crave

891 14th St., Unit 110 Downtown Denver

303-586-4199

Dessert, Restaurants, Menu

Jessica Scott is the woman behind the magic at this downtown Denver dessert spot, and she's crafted a melange of indulgences that we're happy to nibble at teatime and after dinner. Smaller cookies and tarts fill out Crave's daytime selection, while nights finish with molten chocolate cake, sticky toffee cake and a swoon-worthy peanut butter-chocolate twenty-layer cake. Even the cocktails at Crave are dessert-like, as are the breakfast pastries -- particularly the decadent chocolate croissant.

9 articles

Cru Food and Wine Bar

8500 Peña Blvd. East Denver

Dessert, Paninis, Pizza, Wine Bar

Passing time at the airport isn’t so bad when you can sit back and relax at Cru Food and Wine Bar, located on the B concourse. Enjoy a selection of appetizers, gourmet pizza, panini and desserts at Cru, or choose from an extensive list of wines available by the bottle, by the glass, or in a tasting flight. And don't forget to set a flight-time reminder: Once you're ensconced in Cru's elegant surroundings, you just might forget you're at DIA. Open daily from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

3 articles

Cultura Craft Chocolate

3742 Morrison Rd. Southwest Denver

303-731-6656

Coffeehouse, Dessert

Owner and chocolatier Damaris Ronkanen makes so much more than single-origin chocolate bars. She also turns out drinking chocolate, atole mixes, and chocolate with flavors of mezcal, cajeta, bourbon, champurrado and more.

The Dessert Stand

9770 W. 104th Ave. Broomfield

303-550-9726

Dessert, Menu

El Bombon

1082 Havana St. Aurora

303-931-8705

Mexican, Burgers, Dessert

2 articles

Elevat38

5455 W. 38th Ave., Unit 1, Wheat Ridge Northwest Denver Suburbs

720-403-6598

Smoothies, Dessert

Elevated Pastries

6085 Vivian St. Arvada

303-945-5428

Bakery, Dessert, Gluten-Free, Menu

Gateaux

1160 Speer Blvd. Central Denver

303-376-0070

Bakery, Dessert, Best Of, Menu

This little French bakery with the red awning on Speer Boulevard near downtown Denver is owned and operated by Kathleen Kenny Davia, who opened Gateaux Specialty Cakes and Pastries in 1999. Along with assorted cake pops, tea cookies, pastries, tortes and tarts, Gateaux bakes cakes of all kinds for all occasions -- and while special cakes for holidays, bridal showers and weddings need to be ordered ahead of time, a pastry case is stocked for last-minute “Oops, I forgot to get a cake” situations, with quick personalization available to cover up your mistake. That pastry case also contains a variety of treats such as tiramisu, sour cream pound cake and key-lime tarts. Gateaux is also a waste-free business, with all unsold items donated to Father Woody’s at the Denver Rescue Mission once a week.

4 articles

Glaze

1160 Madison St. Central Denver

720-387-7890

Coffeehouse, Dessert, Japanese, American, Recommended

Heather Alcott's Glaze in Congress Park is known for circular cakes called baumkuchen that bake one layer at a time on a horizontal rod. The place opens at 9 a.m. every morning as a bakery cafe featuring tarts, macarons, coffee drinks and of course, baumkuchen -- a Japanese-German hybrid that requires a special oven (Alcott says hers is the only one in the U.S.). Everything that crosses the counter here, as much art as cuisine, demonstrates expertise, quality and sheer fun. With a modern, minimalist dining room and a sleek chef's counter, the restaurant still pulls off warmth and charm in part because of the confidence and sincerity pouring from the kitchen and bakery.

15 articles

Happy Bakeshop

3434 W. 32nd Ave., Denver Highland/Lower Highland

303-477-3556

Bakery, Dessert, Best Of, Menu

At Denver's Happy Bakeshop, the focus is on gourmet cupcakes, but the bake shop also throws down a few other goodies, like French macarons, whoopie pies, cake truffles, cookies and cakes. Owners Laura Reynolds and Sara Bencomo were partners with the dream of opening a bakery when they met Lisa Herman through a mutual hair stylist, and the three went on to create their award-winning cupcake shop in northwest Denver. Happy Cakes makes gluten-free and vegan treat along with gourmet versions of black & white, red velvet, cookies & cream, Mexican chocolate, snickerdoodle and raspberry-passionfruit cupcakes -- the last of which is particularly delectable. There are also daily flavors and a mystery flavor on Thursdays, and the ever-popular Jack & Coke cupcake is a sweet pick-me-up when the real thing isn’t available.

3 articles

Insomnia Cookies

78 S. Broadway South Denver

Dessert

The Inventing Room Dessert Shop

4433 W. 29th Ave. Northwest Denver

303-885-2802

Dessert, Ice Cream, Slideshow

Willy Wonka take notice: Denver has its own magician of all things sweet. Chef and inventor Ian Kleinman opened the Inventing Room, his science-lab dessert bar in the Ballpark neighborhood in October 2015, offering liquid-nitrogen ice cream, grape-jelly cotton candy, exploding whipped cream and plenty of other delights. Kids and adults alike queued up to watch Kleinman and his team go to work amid billowing smoke, spinning sugar and crackling, house-made pop-rocks. Kleinman moved the Inventing Room to West Highland in October 2017.

37 articles

Mango Mango

1144 S. Colorado Blvd. Southeast Denver

Dessert

Melted

3330 Brighton Blvd., @ The Source North Denver

720-387-8349

Dessert

Miette et Chocolat

950 Broadway Downtown Denver

Dessert

Pajama Baking Company

1595 S. Pearl St. South Denver

303-733-3622

Bakery, Dessert

5 articles

Panaderia Rosales Bakery

2636 W. 32nd Ave. Northwest Denver

303-458-8420

Bakery, Dessert, Mexican, Menu

1 article

Scooped Cookie Dough Bar

3000 E. First Ave. Central Denver

Dessert

Snowl

1930 S. Havana St. Aurora

720-542-9902

Dessert, Japanese

Sugar Shack Dessert Co.

5935 S. Zang St. Littleton

720-726-4544

Dessert

Sweet Combforts

1925 Blake St. Downtown Denver

303-570-8042

Dessert, Food Trucks

Sweet Cooie's Ice Cream and Confectionary

3506 E. 12th Ave. Central Denver

720-550-7140

Ice Cream, Dessert, Best Of

This sweet shop in Congress Park neighborhood is the sibling of Little Man Ice Cream. It offers scoops you won't find at Little Man; housemade chocolate truffles; and ice cream sandwiches built on doughnuts, eclairs or Stewart's shortbread (a Colorado original). Get a little sweeter yourself with floats, shakes, malts, banana splits and other old-fashioned frozen confections.

15 articles

Sweet NOLA Snoballs

916 Jersey St., Denver Park Hill/Mayfair/Lowry

504-717-8368

Dessert

The New Orleans-style shaved ice at Sweet NOLA Snoballs isn't the chunky snowcone many are familiar with. Instead, this joint's snoballs are made using a Sno Wizard, a specialty snoball-making machine flown in straight from New Orleans that shaves a block of ice down into a snow-like texture that absorbs sugar like a sponge. More than thirty flavors are available, including classics like Tiger’s Blood (a combination of strawberry and coconut), watermelon and cherry, as well as less common offerings such as margarita and wedding cake.

Sweet Sweetz Ice Cream & Desserts

2325 E. 28th Ave. East Denver

720-949-1896

Coffeehouse, Dessert, Ice Cream, Menu

Tasterie Truck

Boulder Boulder

Dessert, Mobile Food, Food Trucks

3 articles

Temper Chocolates

2669 Larimer St. North Denver

303-562-1966

Dessert

Trap Tea

2790 S. Havana St. Aurora

720-592-0977

Dessert, Tea

Dessert in Denver

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