Guess what next week is? SWEET WEEK! Seattle Magazine has the full scoop, and here are the highlights:
Now in its second year, Sweet Week, which runs Sept. 14 to 20, features 20 of the city’s best sweet shops offering special $5 desserts or samplers, some of which are not usually on their menus:
Hot Cakes: Ballard: Apple Cardamom Ginger Crisp with salty molasses caramel and vanilla ice cream; Capitol Hill: Cherry Fig Fennel Crisp with salted caramel and vanilla soft serve
Hello Robin: Ice Cream Sandwich with Chocolate Chai Brownie Chunk Cookies, Molly Moon’s Stumptown coffee ice cream, and pop rocks
Sweet Mickey’s: Fudge Sampler Box
Theo Chocolate: Flight of fall flavors: Pear Balsamic Ganache, Apple Cider Caramel, and Fig Fennel Ganache
Full Tilt Ice Cream: Blueberry Cheesecake Ice Cream Bars
Dahlia Bakery: S’mores Chocolate Tart
Dahlia Workshop: ‘City of Seattle’ Italian plum and ginger Basque cake
Le Panier: ‘La Vie en Rose’ sweet rose mousse and raspberry cream in choux pastry
Fresh Flours: Tea-infused macaron sampler: Chai, Rooibos, Hojicha, and Matcha
Violet Sweet Shop: ‘The Opera Bundt Cake’ all-vegan vanilla bundt cake brushed with espresso syrup, covered in dark chocolate ganache, and filled with espresso creme
A La Mode Pie: ‘Cookies & Cream Tuxedo Pie’ crumbly chocolate-graham cracker crust, with layers of rich ribbons of chocolate, crushed Oreos, delicate homemade custard, more crushed Oreos, and whipped cream topping
Macrina: Mini Banana Chocolate Cake, layers of banana and chocolate cake with sweetened whipped cream and rum roasted bananas, glazed with ganache
Chocolopolis: Flight of Brown Butter and Salted Caramel drinking chocolates with a salted caramel covered in dark chocolate.
Canal Market: Apple Rosette with pistachio ice cream
Pie: Trio Of Mini Mini Pies, pick three: Beechers Apple Pie with local Flagship cheddar, apples, and brown sugar cheddar crumble; Boozy Blackberry with local berries and Schilling Cider’s Mischief Maker, Crème Fraiche Pecan, Pumpkin Cream, and Raspberry Chiffon
Gelatiamo: ‘Gelato d’Autunno’ trio of gelatos using pears, figs and hazelnuts, served with a caramel cookie
Cupcake Royale: Buttered Popcorn and Caramel Crunch Babycake with buttered popcorn and peanut crunch ice cream, and KukuRuZa Hawaiian sea salted caramel corn
Flying Apron: Vegan & Gluten-Free Yeasted Cinnamon Roll with cream cheese frosting
Parfait: Chewy Chocolate Hazelnut Cookie Sandwich with butter toffee ice cream, rolled in hazelnut toffee
Bluebird Ice Cream: Smoked Chocolate Porter Ice Cream with Hot Cakes’ smoked chocolate
$5 desserts!? YES, please! I don’t even know where to start!!