Where To Buy Ice Cream, Cakes, & Cookies In Jacksonville
All of you that want to learn about the best places to buy ice cream, cakes, and cookies in Jacksonville have found the right post. There are plenty of great dessert shops selling sweets around town and we will do our best to point you in the right direction.
We will start off with the best ice cream shops in your area. Anyone that is searching for vanilla, chocolate, gelato, frozen yogurt, malts, ice cream cakes, and other frozen delights has plenty of options to choose from.
Up next we will get into bakeries where you can buy cakes, cookies, pastries, and all kinds of sweet treats. Then we will niche down and get into donut shops, where to buy cupcakes, candy stores, and chocolate and fudge shops near you.
Following that we will discuss some healthy dessert options in Jacksonville like gluten free bakeries and smoothie shops. Our last section will be about restaurants known for must have desserts in town.
Towards the end you will find a local dessert map that has all the various venues we are mentioning throughout the post pinned on it. And all of you are welcome to look through our other posts on our favorite desserts around the Southeast at that link if you want.
Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt
When you want to eat the best ice cream in Jacksonville or some healthier frozen yogurt try:
Marble Slab Creamery creates handcrafted small batch ice creams in your area with over 65 mix ins including fruits, nuts, candies, and cookies while all their treats are produced in house using some of the freshest ingredients.
Over 40 rich and creamy soft ice cream flavors are available at Jeremiah’s Italian Ice.
Bruster’s offers a rotating selection of over 24 flavors every day and develops over 150 handmade recipes regularly providing made to order artisan sweets such as thick milkshakes, customized sundaes, candy filled blasts, and crunchy homemade waffle cones and bowls.
Dreamette serves renowned local soft serve ice cream, hand dipped cones, sundaes, and mouthwatering frozen treats including their well known banana split in a cup. They offer vegan, sugar free, and gluten free options too.
You may mix and match more than 80 toppings at SweetFrog to create your own custom flavor of delicious soft serve frozen yogurts.
Fat free frozen yogurts near you can be found at Yobe.
You can also head to places from our other lists including CamiCakes Cupcakes, Sweet By Holly, Smallcakes, and Fantastic Fudge to try some of the best ice cream Jacksonville.
Bakeries In Your Area
These bakeries near you should have great cakes, cookies, pastries, and more:
Sweet Theory Baking Co’s handmade goods are baked fresh every day using only natural and organic ingredients. Their gluten free products include coffee cakes, cupcakes, brownies, bites, cookies, loaf cakes, whoopie cakes, cinnamon rolls, doughnuts, biscuit sandwiches, and more.
Amaretti Desserts prepares cakes, pies, cookies, bars, and pastries from scratch.
The Bakery Jax is a family run local business offering pies, cakes, cookies, cupcakes, muffins, sweet breads, and other handcrafted sweets and snacks.
Some of the best baked sweet goods in your area are also available at places from our other lists including CamiCakes Cupcakes, Sweet By Holly, Smallcakes, and Heavenly Chocolate Creations.
Local Donut Shops
Start your morning off right at one of these donut shops:
CamiCakes Cupcakes has roughly 26 flavors available plus they make layer cakes, ice cream, coffee, milk, soda, and tea.
Over 16 flavors of gourmet cupcakes are available at Sivada’s Cupcakery.
Sweet By Holly has more than 50 award winning flavors with vegan and gluten free options which may be tailored to meet your specific requirements. They also produce high quality ice cream and special custom cakes near you for events like birthdays and weddings.
A variety of cakes, cupcakes, brownies, and handcrafted artisan ice creams made from premium ingredients are featured at Smallcakes.
Both Sweet Theory Baking Co and The Bakery Jax from our previous lists are also solid options for really good cupcakes.
Candy Stores Near You
Sweet Pete’s Candy at 400 North Hogan Street excels at creating thousands of unique local candies, handcrafted chocolates, sea salt caramels, cherry cordials, toffee, rocky road, and more. They also offer workshops, events, and field trips for candy enthusiasts from all over the world.
In addition to its famous chocolate covered popcorn Peterbrooke provides a wide selection of milk and dark chocolate truffles, chocolate covered fruits and cordials, jellies, barks, and homemade caramels. Chocolate covered cookies, pretzels, popcorn, milk chocolate hand dipped strawberries, and velvety sweet white chocolate are more of their specialty delicacies.
Fantastic Fudges sells some of the best marble slab fudge, hand dipped chocolates, and ice cream in your area.
Heavenly Chocolate Creations’ gourmet milk, white, and dark chocolate pies, pastries, and cakes are created in store.
Don’t forget about the chocolates and fudge sold at Sweet Pete’s candy shop from our previous list.
Gluten Free Bakeries
Fit Fab Foods at 1058 3rd Street North sells vegan cake pops, keto treats, whoopie pies, cake pops, and other gluten free, low sugar, and high protein baked goods.
Sweet Theory Baking Co and Sweet By Holly from our previous lists also feature fine displays of gluten free baked items.
Smoothies
Smoothies are a good combination of tasty and healthy:
Biscottis serves some of the best desserts in Jacksonville including Boston Cream Pie along with carrot, classic chocolate, and coconut German chocolate cakes as well as Oreo mousse.
BB’s is a great place to try homemade desserts near you including croissant bread pudding, Granny Smith apple pie, mango key lime pie, fudge walnut brownies, German chocolate cake, and toasted coconut cake.
For now that is all we have to share but check back in 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.
Please use the comments to let us know if any shops have closed down, or if we posted anything that is incorrect. Now have fun eating your ice cream, cookies, and cakes in Jacksonville.
