Craving something sugary, but a cookie or slice of chocolate cake isn’t cutting it? We rounded up some of Denver’s specialty dessert offerings to appease your sweet tooth 🍦🍬🍰
Over the Top
Want to take your milkshake to the next level? Try one from Yard Milkshake Bar, which come with toppings like a slice of cheesecake, cotton candy, or a donut. The Denver location even has a Colorado-inspired Palisade peach milkshake with a donut and caramel drizzle.
For another take on pairing ice cream with donuts, Yonutz griddles the donut ice cream sandwiches for a slightly melty and very sweet treat 😋
Global Treats
A variety of pastries and kajkage, a frog-shaped cake, from Taste of Denmark in Lakewood. (Olivia Jewell Love/City Cast Denver)
This Lakewood bakery focuses on pastries and desserts from Scandinavia and Germany, including small frog-shaped cakes called a kajkage, along with kransekage, which is a tower of marzipan rings decorated with icing.
Yomie’s offers a variety of popular Asian snacks and beverages, like fruit sandos with fresh strawberries or mandarins, whipped cream, and pillowy milk bread. The shop also has fresh and frozen tanghulu — sticks of fruit coated in a hard sugar shell.
For just about any French dessert or pastry you can think of, check out La Belle! I personally loved the kouign amann and the lemon blueberry tart, which is a perfect complement to the warmer weather.
Unique to Denver
Baker Melchor Ocampo makes a Spring Fling Cake at Eternal Flavors Bakery in Denver on July 6, 2022. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
Spring Fling Cake at Lala’s Bakery and Eternal Flavors
Invented at the Market in Larimer Square, which closed its doors in 2020, the Spring Fling Cake is a Denver treasure. You can still find the cake — a zucchini cake base with fresh fruit and cream cheese frosting — at Lala’s Bakery and Eternal Flavors, which are owned by former Market employees.
This candy shop gives customers an up-close look at the process of making unique treats and snacks with liquid nitrogen, including smoking popcorn and freeze-dried ice cream sundaes. Tickets are required and can be purchased online in advance.
