Where To Buy Ice Cream, Cakes & Cookies In Washington DC
Welcome and thanks for joining us for this discussion about the best places to buy ice cream, cakes, and cookies in Washington DC. There are numerous dessert shops selling sweets around town and you will be learning about the top options as this blog progresses.
The best ice cream shops in your area will kick things off. Those that love vanilla, chocolate, gelato, frozen yogurt, malts, ice cream cakes, and other frozen delights have numerous options to choose from.
Bakeries where you can buy cakes, cookies, pastries, and all kinds of sweet treats will be up next. After that we will focus on donut shops, where to buy cupcakes, candy stores, and chocolate and fudge shops near you.
Then we will pivot to healthy dessert options like Washington DC gluten free bakeries and smoothie shops. Restaurants that are known for their must have desserts in your area will round us out.
A local dessert map that has all the various venues we are mentioning throughout the post pinned on it will be shared at the end. And the curious types can find all of our other posts on the area at that link.
Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt
The best Washington DC ice cream shops or some healthier frozen yogurt can be found at:
Ice Cream Jubilee has more than 50 unique and rotating flavors with vegan options including dan tat brulee, key lime pandan pie, mango jasmine rice, miso caramel, peanut butter cookies, and pear plum wine sorbet.
Larry’s has been serving homemade ice cream, ice cream sandwiches, baklava, and cookies in your area since 1985.
FroZenYo sells frozen yogurt, ice cream, and sorbet that are available in a wide range of flavors.
Pop’s offers 30 flavors of old fashioned ice creams, lactose free soft serves, sundaes, and a wide selection of toppings in Alexandria.
Casa Rosada offers 20 flavors of world class Argentine gelato and sorbet with vegan and gluten free options.
Italian ice, frozen custard, gelati, milkshakes, cakes, pies, coffee, tea, snacks, and breakfast are all available at Carmen’s.
Original, nonfat, creamy, classic, green tea, and honey dew flavored frozen yogurts in Arlington are offered at Iceberry. They also provide create your own yogurt combinations with a variety of toppings to choose from as well as a range of chilled seasonal fruit blended juices, organic coffees, and plenty more.
You can also head to places from our other lists including Kilwins, Henry’s, Le Diplomate, Fishers Bakers, and Summer House Santa Monica for some of the best ice creams in Washington DC.
Bakeries In Your Area
Great cakes, cookies, pastries, and more are available at these great bakeries:
Baked and Wired is opens at 8am seven days a week specializing in local cupcakes, cakes, bars, cookies, and many more products with vegan and gluten free options.
Breads, pastries, cakes, whole grain products, and healthful beverages are available at Seylou starting at 9am.
Buttercream is known for its packed breakfast bombs and provides a great selection of pies, bars, cupcakes, and cookies near you as well as French macarons that are available in Nutella, lavender lemon, rosewater raspberry jam, and many more flavors.
A plethora of sweets, pastries, cakes, freshly baked cupcakes, fudgy brownies, and cream cheese filled pumpkin muffins as well as craft coffee and red apron sandwiches can be found at Buzz Bakeshop.
The Woodmoor Pastry Shop specializes in cakes, pies, breads, rolls, donuts, and Danishes in your area. Of course the cupcake shops and gluten free bakeries we are about to mention are also worth checking out.
Local Donut Shops
Stop by one of these donut shops on your way to work:
Red Velvet Cupcakery boasts a range of flavors like vanilla bean, peanut butter cup, cookies ‘n cream, and carrot cake.
Cupcake varieties such as dark chocolate, vanilla, coconut, red velvet, gingerbread, caramel apple, roasted pineapple, dulce de leche, and tiramisu are available at The Sweet Lobby.
Lavender Moon makes organic cupcakes near you every day. 17 different types are sold at Alexandria Cupcake seven days a week.
Savvy Treats excels at providing cupcakes, custom cakes, fresh artisan cookies, home baked pastries, and other gourmet sweets in Rockville.
Sprinkles, Buttercream Bakery, Buzz Bakeshop, Rise Bakery, and Sticky Fingers from some different lists are also good options for delicious cupcakes.
Candy Stores Near You
Kids will love all the options at these local candy stores:
Kilwins sells mackinac island fudge, caramel apples, tuttle nut caramels, freshly made waffle cones, and caramel corn as well as 24 ice cream varieties.
Velatis has been handcrafting classic American and European sugary style caramels, toffees, sea salt turtles, truffles, Belgian chocolates, and other sweet delicacies since 1866.
Lapp’s Candy provides over 500 different sweets as well as 35 distinct types of fudge, pretzels, and peanuts.
Hundreds of different soft and hard candies in Bethesda along with all kinds of sweets, fudge, hand scooped ice cream floats, and shakes with gluten free and sugar free options are available at Henry’s.
Chocolate & Fudge Shops
When you want to buy homemade chocolate or fudge visit one of these shops:
Chocolate Chocolate sells a vast assortment of artisanal sweets in your area like munchies, fun foiled, gourmet pan crafted, bar bundles, sweet nostalgia, and plenty more.
You may sample over 400 different bars and confections from artisan chocolatiers throughout the world at The Chocolate House.
Of course those local candy shops will sell all kinds of chocolates as well.
Gluten Free Bakeries
Gluten free bakeries can provide some healthier options:
A wonderful display of cupcakes, breads, bagels, croissants, pastries, pies, cakes, cookies, and bars with vegan varieties can be found at Rise Bakery.
Sticky Fingers is your one stop shop for tasty plant based goodies. They provide bake it yourself and decorate it yourself kits as well as ready to eat cookies, brownies, cupcakes, and so much more.
Baked by Yael is one of Washington DC’s first nut free and kosher cakepopperies creating sweet treats and other delicacies from scratch.
Olivia’s gluten free macarons are available in different season inspired flavors such as fruity pebbles, s’mores, red velvet, and traditional French with a unique American touch.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are served at The Red Bandana Bakery where they also feature a selection of pastries, cakes, and breads.
Smoothies
For a tasty yet healthy choice consider these smoothie shops:
Le Diplomate serves exquisite desserts in Washington DC including profiteroles with praline, banana vanilla ice cream, bittersweet chocolate, vacherin fraise vanille, and apple tarte tartin.
Tail Up Goat’s local dessert menu includes coconut panna cotta, chocolate and olive oil tart, and pistachio bostock cardamom.
Tasty donuts, home churned ice cream, and Virginia peanut butter mousse pie with whipped cream on top are some of Farmers Fishers Bakers’ signature treats.
Strawberries and cream and Claudia’s tiramisu are Fiola’s hallmark sweets.
Premium desserts like honey goat cheesecake, milke chocolate crémeux, spring panna cotta, and coconut rice pudding are served at Elle.
You will want to try The Melting Pot’s chocolate fondues in Arlington including flavors like flaming turtle, cookie butter crunch, dark and dulce, and truffle milk.
Mi Rancho is a Tex Mex restaurant offering great desserts near you like sopapillas, cajeta, flan, empanadas, tres leches cake, and cheese cake.
Summer House Santa Monica provides a fine selection of cookies, ice cream sandwich red velvet cake, fudge brownie, and s’more bars in addition to being well known for their rice krispy treats in North Bethesda.
That is all we’ve got for now but visit us again because we plan to update this post often. After reading about all these local shops to buy ice cream, frozen yogurt, cookies, cakes, pastries, other bakery items, cupcakes, donuts, chocolate, fudge, candy, gluten free baked goods, smoothies, and even restaurants with can’t miss desserts in your area you should be ready to find your next sweet indulgence.
Don’t be afraid to let us know if any shops have closed down or if we posted anything that is incorrect in the comments. Now have fun eating your ice cream, cookies, and cakes in Washington DC.
