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Sugar, Sugar: Where to Find the Best Dessert in Canberra
If you’re looking for the best dessert Canberra has to offer, look no further. Here’s our round-up of the city’s top sweet treats.
If you fancy yourself as a bit of a sweet tooth, you’ll be glad to know that the national capital is home to more than a few excellent dessert spots.
From decadent bakes and cakes to the most indulgent frozen treats, there’s no shortage of places to get your sugar fix in the ACT.
Need hand sorting your sugar cravings? Here’s where you’ll find the best dessert Canberra has to offer.
Goodberry’s
Goodberry’s does epic frozen custards made from scratch using only top-notch ingredients and served fresh, with both vanilla and chocolate custard flavours available. In the mood for something more decadent? Order a Frozen Custard Sundae or a Frozen Custard Concrete, which lets you choose add-ins like cookie dough, mini marshmallows, nuts, fruits, flavoured fudge sauce and more.
Locations across Canberra
Honey Toast
Asian-inspired cafe by day, dessert bar by night, Honey Toast is a dream post-dinner destination for when you’re out and about in Canberra.
Linger a while longer over a Vietnamese coffee and a rotating dessert menu that’s regularly decked out with croffles (a delightful croissant-waffle hybrid), muffins, cakes and, of course, honey toast! This signature offering involves golden, butter brioche toast topped with honeycomb, honey and vanilla ice cream—or try the matcha, chocolate nutella and strawberry varieties for something different.
And if you fancy a tipple with that? They’re fully licensed so you can grab a cocktail, too!
148 Bunda Street, Canberra
Sweet Bones
Everything at Sweet Bones is entirely plant-based, but you’d never be able to tell. The baked goods that come out of the kitchen have all the taste and indulgence of their non-plant-based counterparts.
We can’t get enough of their cinnamon buns and brownies, but their monthly cake specials and celebration cakes are also well worth ordering for a birthday, wedding or special occasion. And while you’re there, make sure to hang around for brunch or lunch—the cafe is one of the best eateries on Lonsdale Street, Braddon.
Shop 3, 3 Scullin Place, Scullin
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Future Swirl
Future Swirl is a newcomer to Canberra’s dessert scene, only launching its tasty creations at the end of 2022. But it’s already garnering rave reviews for its ingenious oat milk-based soft serve (the first in Australia, as a matter of fact).
The frozen treat comes in different flavours—vanilla, chocolate or a swirly mix of the two, with more coming soon—and can be served in a cup, cone, milkshake or spider, and levelled up with toppings. Our pick? The warm Biscoff.
Naturally, the soft serve is dairy-free, but it’s also clear of eggs, gelatin, nuts, coconut and soy—making it ideal for anyone keen to avoid these additives. For dessert on the go, they’ve also just launched oat milk ice cream tubs which are available at select Canberra stockists.
Check socials to stay abreast of where the Future Swirl truck will pop-up next
Formulab
Got a special event coming up that needs to be celebrated with cake? Your best bet is to order one from Formulab, which makes some of the best and most inventive French-inspired layer mousse cakes in Canberra. Think flavours like strawberry basil, carrot yuzu, chocolate blackberry and pistachio earl grey, among others. You can also order two, three and four-tier cakes if you really want to go all out.
Formulab is an online-only venture, so you’ll have to order virtually, but you can pick up your cake at The Boat House in Barton or in the Turner area.
The Boat House, 7 Menindee Drive, Barton
Spilt Milk Bar
There are plenty of places slinging gelato around Canberra, but one of our favourite spots is Spilt Milk Bar in Dickson.
The flavours are interesting and very, very tasty—think lemon cheesecake, jaffa, maple pecan pie, Christmas pud and Biscoff caramel—and the ingredients are high-quality and locally sourced. You can also turn up the indulgence factor by adding oozy chocolate hazelnut sauce, salty pretzel crunch or hazelnut crunch to your gelato.
And if you’re travelling outside Canberra and happen to be visiting Orange or Tamworth, you’ll be glad to know there are Spilt Milk Bar outlets there, too.
Unit 70/2 Cape Street, Dickson
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