Where To Buy Ice Cream, Cakes, & Cookies In San Diego
Everyone that is trying to find out about the best places to buy ice cream, cakes, and cookies in San Diego has 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 San Diego like gluten free bakeries and smoothie shops. Our last section will be about restaurants known for must have desserts in your area.
Towards the end you will find a 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 local Southwest dessert guides right there if you want.
Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt
When you want to eat the best ice cream in San Diego or some healthier frozen yogurt try:
Mariposa provides a variety of flavors such as hot fudge, dulce de leche, marshmallow, caramel, and butterscotch for ice cream and sundaes with vegan choices. Hammond’s Gourmet has over 300 types of premium ice cream in your area with flavors like Tahitian vanilla, chocolate coconut macadamia nut, lilikoi sorbet, peanut butter, guava jelly, and more.
Vegan and nondairy options are available at Cali Cream Homemade Ice Cream. Lighthouse offers malts, cones, sundaes, sorbets, and their signature hot waffle and pancake ice cream sandwiches. GelatoLove makes Italian ice cream with fruit flavors like kiwi, raisin, and fig.
Paradise offers local frozen yogurt with vegan, gluten free, nonfat, and nondairy options. Rockie’s sells over 15 different flavors of frozen yogurt, acai bowls, smoothies, coffee drinks, and shakes.
NuYo Frozen Yogurt provides almost 16 flavors with more than 50 toppings. Menchie’s prepares waffles, sorbets, and frozen yogurt with 24 dry toppings and 3 sundae sauces as well as a fresh fruit chill bar.
Bakeries In Your Area
These bakeries near you should have great cakes, cookies, pastries, and more:
La Concha specializes in traditional Mexican pastries and baked goods. Specialty cupcakes, cookies, freshly baked pastries, and breakfast are all available at Cute Cakes. Flour Power creates handcrafted cakes and custom desserts near you along with cupcakes, cake pops, cookies, and more.
Carlsbad has been in business for over four decades and provides custom cakes, croissants, and cookies. Prager Brothers offers artisanal breads, pastries, and sandwiches.
Local Donut Shops
Start your morning off right at one of these donut shops:
SusieCakes at La Costa Town Square 7610, Via Campanile St 144, Carlsbad
Pure provides a variety of flavors for cupcakes, bars, cakes, biscuits, and cake pops with vegan and gluten free options. Cupcakes Squared offers 9 to 12 flavors daily in small and standard sizes. A wide selection of sweets and pastries are available at Frost Me.
Personalized and customized cakes, cupcakes, and desserts are offered at The Crimson. SusieCakes creates delectable cookies, bars, pies, and many more items.
Candy Stores Near You
These local candy stores should have a wide variety of sugary treats to choose from:
The Candy Pushers offers over 1,000 different candies, fudges, chocolates, truffles, toffees, caramels, and ice cream floats. Cousin’s is a great place to buy traditional and sugar free candies in your area including taffies, fudges, licorices, Jelly Bellies, huckleberry jams, and chocolates.
Giant candies and gummies from popular brands are available at It’Sugar. My Mexican Candy provides selections of caramels, lollipops, gummies, chocolates, rim dips, hard candies, marshmallows, gums, wafers, and more.
Chocolate Haus specializes in local artisanal gourmet chocolates and ice cream. Fudge Factory sells sundaes, soft serves, ice cream bars, milkshakes, frappes, caramel apples, chocolates, and more.
Sweet Petite Confections offers handcrafted and personalized chocolates near you as well as ice cream, sorbets, bonbons, salted caramels, and other delectable treats.
Gluten Free Bakeries
Gluten free bakeries are a good healthier alternative:
Gluten Free Baking Co sells breads, bagels, cupcakes, cookies, donuts, muffins, dry mixes, and more with vegan and nondairy options. Keto bread, cassava tortillas, cakes, and other baked items are available at Paleo Treats. Deanna’s offers breads, pizzas, dinner rolls, baguettes, pies, cookies, and brownies in your area with gluten free, vegan, and nonallergenic selections.
Smoothies
Smoothies are a good combination of tasty and healthy:
Some of the best desserts in San Diego can be found at Chocolate Cremerie including their tasty gelato and pastries. Traditional short baked cookies and cheese pastries are available at The House of Cuban Flavor.
Bliss Cafe serves their popular bread pudding which is one of the best desserts near you. Cafe 88 provides a selection of smoothies, acai bowls, cookies, crackers, and other items.
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 San Diego.
