These bake shops, patisseries and specialty parlours are satisfying Edmontonians one sweet tooth at a time. Food bloggers and Reddit users alike recommend these five spots for dessert:

1. Duchess Bake Shop– 10718 124 Street

Try out this spot for French-style pastries, tarts, cake and cookies. Few can resist their elegant display case, yet their prices remain reasonable. Duchess makes seasonally flavoured madeleines and macarons, in addition to mainstay desserts like lemon meringue cake and banana cream pie. Lastly, they also carry bite-sized treats like butter tarts, pistachio cherry danishes and fruit scones. These are perfect for a sweet start to the day, or as a party offering.

2. Bonton Bakery and Patisserie– 8720 149 Street

Bonton makes bread and bagels, granola, buns and bars like you might expect from any quality bakery. They also make a few decadent desserts really well. A rich chocolate and apricot sachertorte can be found here, as well as peach-shaped Italian cookies. Pesche dolci have peach flavoured buttercream found inside around an almond “pit”. Bonton also prepares blueberry cheesecakes, strawberry rose cheesecakes in the shape of wild roses and piña colada cheesecake pops featuring a freeze-dried pineapple garnish.

3. Doughnut Party– 3 Edmonton locations

Doughnut Party has a seasonal menu of around twenty doughnut flavours every month, with about half of these being vegan-friendly. Their range of options will fit any taste, from those who like punchy sour lemon, blue raspberry and rainbow glaze, to those who prefer the more delicate and subtle palates like lavender, black sesame or maple old fashioned. Check out the Brewery, Ritchie or Old Strathcona location to treat yourself to a warm and fun-filled treat.

4. Chocorrant Patisserie and Cafe– 10328 124 Street

Quite possibly the best place to get a croissant in Edmonton, this shop boasts four savoury varieties and an amazing thirteen sweet ones! The classic chocolate croissant is highly popular and celebrated, but branching out and trying salted egg yolk, honey pistachio or s’mores flavours is an experience unique to here. If you’re undecided between a few different kinds, you can always order a four pack or a ten pack of mini croissants for your choosing online.

5. Kind Ice Cream– 3 Edmonton locations

If you’ve been looking for an ice cream store with the perfect balance of conventional flavours to unique ones, Kind Ice Cream might be the place for you. They have a few rotating flavours at a time– plus 14 “always flavours” which include chocolate milk, strawberry, cold brew coffee, chocolate honeycomb and maple whiskey pecan. Their “River Valley Road” flavour is made with “marshmallows, house-made brownie pieces and crunchy candied walnuts in a milk chocolate base”: an Edmonton take on the classic rocky road. A refreshing and old school pleasure, Kind Ice Cream can be found at Wîhkwêntôwin, Ritchie and Highlands locations.

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