We are about to fill you in on the best places to buy ice cream, cakes, and cookies in Miami. There are plenty of great dessert shops selling sweets around town and this guide will try to focus on the best of the best.
There is no better way to get the ball rolling than with a list of the best ice cream shops near you. Frozen yogurt, gelato, malts, and ice cream cakes are found with ease here.
Once the frozen delights are out of the way it will be time to pivot to bakeries where you can buy cakes, cookies, pastries, and all kinds of sweet treats. Then we will get into some specific things like donut shops, where to buy cupcakes, candy stores, and chocolate and fudge shops too.
Healthy dessert options in Miami like gluten free bakeries and smoothie shops are easy to find as well. And our final topic will be all about restaurants that are known for must have desserts in your area.
Stick around for our local dessert map that has all these spots that we are mentioning throughout the post pinned on it. Our other posts on the Southeast are available at that link if you want to check them out.
Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt
When you are craving the best ice cream in Miami or want some healthier frozen yogurt try:
Lulu’s Ice Cream is a great place to get locally produced ice cream with a dash of delicious liquid nitrogen. They offer seven timeless flavors in addition to seven weekly changing seasonal flavors.
Dasher and Crank creates its ice cream in small batches and continually changes their menu with new varieties every week having produced over 425 flavors with vegan and gluten free options over time.
There are 16 varieties at the Morelia Ice Cream all of which are manufactured with natural ingredients including their very own paletas which are made from fresh natural fruits in Mexico.
Some of the most mouthwatering ice cream and handcrafted pastries in your area can be found at Cream Parlor including flavors like purple rain, unicorn poop, or up all night which can be topped with as many toppings as you like.
Yuzu has 13 flavors of frozen yogurt as well as a wide menu of sweet and savory crepes, smoothies, and shakes.
Soft serve ice cream, toppings, shakes, Sundae Dashers, take home sweets, and some of the best ice cream cakes near you are all available at Carvel.
Yogurt Ur Way in Ft Lauderdale specializes in 100% yogurts with over 60 rotating flavors and over 40 toppings plus they offer a variety of sorbets, ice creams, custards, gelatos, and other delectable treats as well.
Over 100 rotating frozen yogurt flavors with vegan, gluten free, non dairy, kosher, low carb, and low fat options as well as 70 rotating toppings are available at Menchie’s in Hialeah.
The Schakolad Chocolate Factory and Atelier Monnier from our other lists are also great places to buy ice cream in the Miami metro too.
Bakeries In Your Area
Expect to find great cakes, cookies, pastries, and more at the best bakeries near you:
True Loaf Bakery has a wide range of baked goods including pies, pastries, cookies, naturally leavened bread, baguettes, ciabattas, and more.
Delicious Cuban pastelitos which can be filled with guava, cream cheese, guava and cream cheese, beef, ham, tuna, or coconut are offered at El Brazo Fuerte Bakery along with a delicious array of freshly baked sweet pastries like eclairs, napoleons, and cappuccino cakes.
The French bakery Atelier Monnier is a good place to go for freshly baked pastries, coffee, sandwiches, salads, macarons, cakes, tarts, ice cream, sorbets, chocolates, and frozen desserts near you.
Fireman Derek’s Bake Shop is known for its unique pastries like pies, cakes, cheesecakes, and cookies.
A variety of pastries, cookies, cakes, and other tasty sweets in Ft Lauderdale are served at Sunshine Bakery.
Italian, European, and American favorites are available at Gran Forno including assorted cookies, holiday specialty breads, and all kinds of other baked goods.
Most of the places we are about to mention in the Miami cupcake shops should also be considered for all kinds of fresh baked sweet treats.
Local Donut Shops
These donut shops are a great way to start your morning:
dBakers specializes in creating mouthwatering cakes near you in a variety of flavors and uses whipped cream cheese frosting and Swiss meringue buttercream on their cupcakes.
Delicious baked goods like cakes and cookies as well as a range of mini indulgences, brownies, and pies are some of the products sold at Sweeter Days Bake Shop in Ft Lauderdale where they also offer 12 flavors and 24 rotating types of cupcakes every day.
Misha’s Cupcakes in Coral Gables has over 36 flavors on its menu with seasonal specialties being added all year round. Some other delectable goods they offer include cake in a jar, gourmet cakes, brownies, cookies, cookie dough, and cake bars.
T’antay Cupcakes uses scratch made vanilla bean Swiss merengue buttercream and provides numerous customizable cupcake options.
Candy Stores Near You
Local candy stores should have a wide variety of sugary treats to choose from:
Some of the best assortments of bulk candies, wrapped candies, cotton candy, chocolates, gummies, gumballs, jelly beans, marshmallows, lollipops, and wrapped candies are all available at Sugarman Candy.
There are over 13,000 different items featured at To The Moon Marketplace including popular rare candies, 70 kinds of chocolate covered goods, 100 kinds of rare black licorice, and more than 90 different kinds of dark chocolate bars with up to 100% cocoa content.
You can find a wide variety of local candies in all sizes and shapes including vintage, beloved, and colorful brands which are available at discounted rates at Miami Candies Sweets and Snacks.
There’s also a selection of candies in your area at The Schakolad Chocolate Factory from our next list.
Chocolate & Fudge Shops
Great homemade chocolate and fudge can be found at these shops:
High end custom lactose and gluten free chocolates that are acceptable for vegans and vegetarians are the specialties of Romanicos Chocolate whose Japanese Ginger Chocolate Bar was chosen as a Silver Finalist for the finest specialty food of the year in 2012.
Exquisito is a whole bean to bar product that uses cocoa beans from a single source from all over the world with numerous options many of which vegan, dairy free, and gluten free. Their products including gifts and bundles, bars, bon bons, truffles, corporate gifts, confections, hot chocolate, and vegan treats are certified soy free and single origin.
In addition to gourmet coffee drinks The Schakolad Chocolate Factory also offers over 70 different kinds of hand dipped truffles and sweets, high quality ice cream, sugar free candies, and chocolates which come in various boxes and platters.
Gluten Free Bakeries
For a healthier alternative try one of these gluten free bakeries:
Gluten free Southern Italian cookies, cakes, and breads that are low in calories, sugar, and digestible carbs are available at Almotti.
Bettersweet specializes in gluten free and vegan cakes in your area along with cupcakes, cookies, muffins, cakepops, and adorned cookies.
The Chocolate Chip Bakery and Café focuses on producing 100% organic and nutritious vegan cakes, cookies, brownies, banana bread, and sweet muffins in Miami that are free of gluten, dairy, and egg plus they serve one of the best organic coffees too.
A large selection of French vegan pastries, petit gateaux, viennoiserie, gourmet sandwiches, and salads can be found at L’Artisane Creative Bakery.
Kosher and vegan baked products from Bunnie Cakes include cupcakes, cakes, donuts, pie cakes, and others that are free of dairy, soy, peanut, gluten, and artificial sugar.
Steak 954 at 401 N Ft Lauderdale Beach Blvd, Ft Lauderdale
B Bistro + Bakery excels at providing freshly made morning pastries including Danish, brioche, and a variety of flaky croissants as well as signature local desserts like macaroons, petit gateaux, and tarts.
Michael’s makes great coconut ice cream and magnificent desserts near you like sticky toffee pudding and rum cakes that are loved by many people.
Mandolin Aegean Bistro’s flavors are inspired by the seasonal gastronomy and beach towns of the region between Greece and Turkey and their homemade baklava is one of the best desserts in your area that you will find anywhere.
Raspberry, guava, and blueberry sorbets are Zuma Miami’s highly recommended desserts.
Some of the best sweets that you can try at the Italian restaurant Tutto Pasta include their guava, banana, and Nutella cheesecakes.
Niu Kitchen is a Catalan style kitchen serving really good desserts like bread pudding, berries, and basil sorbet.
Steak 954 is a luxury boutique steakhouse that is known for its chocolate souffle and plum bread pudding, oat and almond crumble, and more great sweets in Ft Lauderdale.
We wish we had more to share but for now that is all we’ve got. 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 finding your next sweet indulgence shouldn’t be too hard.
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