Dessert in Denver
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Jessica Scott is the woman behind the magic at this downtown Denver dessert spot, and she’s crafted a melange of indulgences that we’re happy to nibble at teatime and after dinner. Smaller cookies and tarts fill out Crave’s daytime selection, while nights finish with molten chocolate cake, sticky toffee cake and a swoon-worthy peanut butter-chocolate […]
Passing time at the airport isn’t so bad when you can sit back and relax at Cru Food and Wine Bar, located on the B concourse. Enjoy a selection of appetizers, gourmet pizza, panini and desserts at Cru, or choose from an extensive list of wines available by the bottle, by the glass, or in […]
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This little French bakery with the red awning on Speer Boulevard near downtown Denver is owned and operated by Kathleen Kenny Davia, who opened Gateaux Specialty Cakes and Pastries in 1999. Along with assorted cake pops, tea cookies, pastries, tortes and tarts, Gateaux bakes cakes of all kinds for all occasions — and while special […]
Heather Alcott’s Glaze in Congress Park is known for circular cakes called baumkuchen that bake one layer at a time on a horizontal rod. The place opens at 9 a.m. every morning as a bakery cafe featuring tarts, macarons, coffee drinks and of course, baumkuchen — a Japanese-German hybrid that requires a special oven (Alcott […]
At Denver’s Happy Bakeshop, the focus is on gourmet cupcakes, but the bake shop also throws down a few other goodies, like French macarons, whoopie pies, cake truffles, cookies and cakes. Owners Laura Reynolds and Sara Bencomo were partners with the dream of opening a bakery when they met Lisa Herman through a mutual hair […]
Willy Wonka take notice: Denver has its own magician of all things sweet. Chef and inventor Ian Kleinman opened the Inventing Room, his science-lab dessert bar in the Ballpark neighborhood in October 2015, offering liquid-nitrogen ice cream, grape-jelly cotton candy, exploding whipped cream and plenty of other delights. Kids and adults alike queued up to […]
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This sweet shop in Congress Park neighborhood is the sibling of Little Man Ice Cream. It offers scoops you won’t find at Little Man; housemade chocolate truffles; and ice cream sandwiches built on doughnuts, eclairs or Stewart’s shortbread (a Colorado original). Get a little sweeter yourself with floats, shakes, malts, banana splits and other old-fashioned […]
At Larimer Square, a set of stairs leads down to a tiny, brightly lit foyer with checkered floors. It’s just enough space to hold an old-fashioned pie counter, an antique register and a chalkboard menu that lists the daily pie specials: whole pies available for pick-up and slices that you can consume, possibly with a […]
This little storefront sports bar is the only local eatery serving fried Twinkies, a cardiologist’s nightmare. Sure, it makes other things — good chicken wings, for example, with an ungodly number of sauces (47, if you want to be specific) — but the fried Twinkies (and candy bars and bananas and funnel cake) are reason […]