Where To Buy Ice Cream, Cakes, & Cookies In Albany
Thanks for joining us for this discussion about the best places to buy ice cream, cakes, and cookies in Albany. 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 Albany 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 Northeast at that link.
Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt
The best Albany ice cream shops or some healthier frozen yogurt can be found at:
Franks is open all year and serves delicious soft and hard ice cream in addition to handcrafted ice cream cakes and yogurt in your area. Kurver Kreme is only open during certain seasons but this local ice cream shop with seating outdoors specializes in soft serve cones.
Jims Tastee Freez is a fast-food company that specializes in frozen delicacies but also sells burgers, hot dogs, and traditional sides. Emack & Bolio’s Ice Cream is a dessert franchise that offers a variety of ice cream and frozen yogurt flavors as well as other sweet delicacies.
16 Handles is a self-serve frozen yogurt chain with 16 rotating flavors and a wide variety of unique toppings. Better-for-you frozen yogurt, all-natural ice cream, and some great vegan options like oatmilk soft serve and real fruit sorbets are among their artisan flavors.
SweetFrog is a national brand that sells soft-serve frozen yogurt and sorbet in dozens of flavor variations as well as a large variety of fresh toppings. TCBY is a colorful chain yogurt shop near you that offers a variety of frozen sweets and cold coffee drinks.
Bakeries In Your Area
Great cakes, cookies, pastries, and more are available at these great bakeries:
Fiorello Bakery & Deli has a lot of fresh baked desserts in addition to sandwiches and other deli items. Bountiful Bread is a homemade kitchen and bakery that offers a variety of fresh sandwiches, soups, salads, and baked goods.
Scones, cookies, bars, cupcakes, and cakes are also available plus they provide catering for office lunches, graduation celebrations, weddings, and other special events in their indoor and outdoor facility in Schenectady’s Mill Artisan District or on-location.
The Cheesecake Machismo recipe box contains over 600 different flavors and the cake shop offers a new taste combination every day. Warm, fresh-from-the-oven cookies, brownies, ice cream, and milk are delivered to your house by Nocturnal Cookies.
Local Donut Shops
Cider Belly Doughnuts at 25 N Pearl Street is a rustic-style counter service that serves traditional and inventive apple cider doughnuts as well as hot beverages. There is always something new and intriguing to select from among the roughly 400 varieties that rotate everyday.
Cider Belly’s Artisan Cider Doughnuts have been selected the best doughnuts in the Northeast for the past five years. There are vegan, gluten-free, and weekly specials available.
Where To Buy Cupcakes
We highly recommend these cupcake shops around town:
Bake For You is a local bakery that offers delectable cakes, cupcakes, scones, and brownies. There are a few vegan options available but none are gluten-free.
Sweet Elevation Bakery specializes in unique bakery items like cupcakes, cookies, custom event cakes, and French macarons among other things. They serve sandwiches, soups, and salads in addition to baked items and specialty cakes. Catering and parties for all occasions are available at Sweet Elevation Bakery as well as baking lessons.
Zachary’s Pastry Shoppe offers cookies, pies, tarts, morning pastry, coffee cake, tea bread, brownies and bars, individual desserts, gourmet cupcakes, and pies in addition to cakes for all occasions.
Candy Stores Near You
Kids will love all the options at these candy stores:
Ribbon candy, chocolate-covered strawberries, sweets, sweetened jellies, licorice cakes, fruit jelly beans, bubble gum balls, pastel mints, and more may be found at Candy Kraft. The Candy Cottage is a one-of-a-kind boutique that sells over 150 self-serve candy jars as well as chocolates, truffles, and nostalgic candy.
Chocolate & Fudge Shops
When you want to buy homemade chocolate or fudge visit one of these shops:
Uncle Sam’s Candy now offers a full range of truffles with 12 flavors on hand at all times and more depending on the holiday. Caramels, creams, clusters, marshmallows, nougats, dipped products, and more are all available. They also sell Jelly Belly Jelly Beans in all of the 49 different varieties.
Old fashioned peanut brittle, chocolate wrapped almond butter toffee, rich dark chocolate fudge, and hundreds of other handmade delights are among Krause’s Candy’s specialties.
Gluten Free Bakeries
Gluten free bakeries can provide some healthier options:
Bread, sandwich rolls, pizza crusts, sandwiches, hot pizza, breakfast dishes, cookies, and other delectable pastries are just a few of the gluten-free foods available at Birch Baked Gluten Free. Sweet Eats has a variety of gluten-free and dairy-free snacks and bars to choose from in addition to some that aren’t made with nuts.
Cider Belly Doughnuts also has some gluten-free donuts you won’t want to miss.
Smoothies
For a tasty yet healthy choice consider these smoothie shops:
Yono’s brings blend of contemporary American cuisine with an Indonesian touch which features seasonal, farm fresh ingredients from Upstate New York and beyond. Donna’s famous French vanilla cheesecake, summer pavlova, daily créme brûlée, kolak pisang which is an Indonesian bananas foster, chocolate rendezvous, and more are among the great desserts near you on offer.
Athos Restaurant serves traditional Greek cuisine in an elegant setting with a bustling bar, fixed-price specials, and live music on Friday nights. Some of their delicious local desserts include baklava, galaktobouriko, athos cheesecake, rice pudding, and chocolate chip mint mousse.
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 Albany.
