Baked Goods
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Baked Goods
Absolute Bakery / Cabbagetown
Absolute Bakery and Cafe has been a quiet Cabbagetown favourite for French and Sri Lankan baked good for years. The bakery is one of those modest mom and pop operations...
Aida's Pine Valley Bakery / Woodbridge
Aida's Pine Valley Bakery offers espresso, baked goods such as zeppole and biscotti, and bread. They also serve delicious grilled panini sandwiches....
Alcoa Bakery / Other
Alcoa Bakery on Davenport bakes up lots of fresh cakes, tarts and other pastries as well as fresh bread. ...
Andrea's Gerrard Street Bakery / East Chinatown
Andrea's Gerrard Street Bakery is located in the heart of East Chinatown, of all places. "People said to me, 'Really, Chinatown?'" Andrea Mut says of her friends' and family's reaction...
Bakerbots / Bloorcourt
Bakerbots is just eight weeks old and only open on weekends and evenings, but it has already earned a reputation for some of the best ice cream sandwiches around. I head...
Beaches Bake Shop / Upper Beaches
The Beaches Bake Shop in the Upper Beaches in a neighbourhood favourite serving fresh baked treats daily. They make all their own baked goods and sell hard to find Swedish...
Better and Better Bakery / Koreatown
Better and Better bakery is just the thing I've been looking for - that is, a good place to work, close to my house with cheap coffee, free internet and...
BnC Bakery Cafe / Koreatown
BnC Patisserie Bakery Cafe is a brightly lit bakery-cafe in the heart of Koreatown. There are lots of freshly baked cakes, donuts and other treats, as well as a variety...
Bobbette & Belle / Leslieville
Bobbette & Belle, an artisan patisserie that began as a studio that catered to couples looking for wedding cakes and wedding reception favours, moved into a retail location in Leslieville...
Bonnie Gordon Cakes / Eglinton West
The Bonnie Gordon College of Confectionary Arts is where many budding Toronto bakers have turned a love of sweets into full fledged businesses. This private career college offers varying levels...
Bunner's Bake Shop / Junction
Bunner's Bake Shop became a dedicated storefront in late 2010 after its home-baked treats gained overwhelming response at local farmers markets. Owners and boyfriend/girlfriend duo Ashley Wittig and Kevin MacAllister...
Cake Opera Co / Eglinton West
Cake Opera Co. knows a thing or two about wedding cakes. Just one byzantine wedding cake from this Eglinton West shop is a dizzying sight, but a whole shelf will...
Canadian Pie Company / Riverside
The Canadian Pie Company is paying heed to, in my opinion, a quite under appreciated baked good. After all, who doesn't love pie? Especially when the crust is just so,...
Carole's Cheesecake / Yorkville
Carole's Cheesecake makes mouthwatering cheesecakes in every variety imaginable including Dulce de Leche, Taffy Apple, Rocky Road, and my personal favourite, New York Cherry. Not many options if you're a...
Chocolada / North York
Chocolada is well known in North York for making some of the best wedding and special occasion cakes in the area. ...
Circles and Squares / Markham
Circles and Squares Bakery has made countless appearances in my life (and the lives of my "colleagues") since it showed up in the Best Cookies in Toronto poll back in...
Coach House Shortbread Company / Leslieville
Coach House Shortbread Company is the retail showroom of Carl Stryg's famous shortbread company. The shop offers both sweet and savoury shortbread cookies in flavours such as cranberry, pecan, and...
Cookie Outlet / East York
The Cookie Outlet is the place to go in Toronto for bulk cookies at prices much lower than No Frills. Found near the Kraft bakery (and across from the bowling...
CreARTive Cakes / Danforth
CreARTive Cakes on the Danforth specializes in wedding cakes as well as custom cakes that look like barbies, buildings, cars and other random themes....
Creme / Little Italy
Creme cafe is new to Little Italy, offering up the sweetest of treats. Everything is made from scratch and in-house including the gelato. The interior is bright and welcoming with...
Danish Style Cake Shop and Delicatessen / Upper Beaches
The Danish Style Cake Shop & Delicatessen in the Upper Beaches bakes traditional Scandinavian wedding cakes and Finnish-style cookies. They also serve lunchy stuff like sandwiches and soups....
Dessert Lady / Yorkville
Dessert Lady is a tiny Yorkville bakery that offers ribbon-tied bags of cookies in unconventional flavours like "smoked chili chocolate" and "double chocolate banana." "The chili will burn your...
Dessert Trends / Annex
Dessert Trends is helmed by a gold medalist in the Culinary Olympics, and features an array of existing and custom design options for wedding cakes, custom cakes, and pastries. They...
Donlands Bakery / Pape Village
Donlands Bakery has a regular clientele in Pape Village that come here for their cakes, cookies and other pastries....
Dufflet / West Queen West
Dufflet, now with three locations in Toronto, makes premium all natural desserts like the chocolate cupcakes (above), tarts, pies and cakes. ...
Dufflet (Beaches) / Beaches
The Dufflet empire is now at three stores strong in Toronto including this popular spot in the Beaches where you can pick up all of the bakeries tastes cakes, pies...
Empire Bakery / North York
Empire Bakery is one of a number of area bakeries that specializes in wedding, bar mitzvah and other special-occasion cakes. ...
Eve's Temptations / St. Lawrence Market
Eve's Temptations, on the lower level of St. Lawrence Market, carries Chudleigh's pies, cakes from Dufflet and assortment of other baked treats....
Fabian's Cafe / Scarborough
Fabian's Café offers European-styles pastries and food, such as cakes, strudels, tarts, homemade truffles, sandwiches, salads, schnitzel, and quiche....
Fifth St. Cakes / Woodbridge
Fifth St. Cakes Fifth is the nut-free sister bakery to Sweet Boutique. This allergy-free zone is just a few steps from its predecessor and offers a similar array of baked...
Flaky Tart / Mount Pleasant
I dare you to look at a Flaky Tart cake for more than 5 seconds without smiling. Whether they're topped with a cheeky monkey or a little yellow chick,...
Flour / Eglinton West
Flour is a great little bakery on Eglinton West near Bathurst that bakes fresh and tasty cookies, cakes and other treats....
Frangipane / Annex
The stretch of Dupont that Frangipane Patisserie occupies is a motley collection of businesses, restaurants and chiropractic clinics. The crooked sign looks fresh and bright on the grey street so...
Gerhard's Cafe & Bakery / Scarborough
Gerhard's Cafe & Bakery makes cake in the German tradition. There are around 30 different kinds ranging from Apple Crumble Torte to White Chocolate Mousse Bombe. Prices start at...
Gurts / Roncesvalles Village
Gurts is Roncesvalles' answer to self-serve frozen yogurt. But unlike most fro-yo shops, Gurts has an extra element to help it through the slow winter months. That is, freshly baked...
Harbord Bakery / Annex
An Annex institution, the Harbord Bakery has been on many "Best of Toronto" lists. After all these years, they still make amazing bread (they are well known for their challah),...
I Do Wedding Cakes / Castlefield Design District
This trend-setting cake shop is known for their workmanship and originality. Using hand made decorations like sugar crystals to give cakes sequin-like glitter, these romantic and feminine cakes are...
Ice 'n Cake / Don Mills
Ice 'n Cake epitomizes all that is The Shops at Don Mills. The dessert and gelato shop--which will be celebrating its one-year anniversary this July--is ostentatiously spacious, bright and boldly...
J'Adore Cakes / Danforth
J'adore Cakes on the East Danforth makes pastries, sandwiches and other sweet treats but they're best known for their wedding and custom cakes, macarons and cupcakes....
Katie's Cakes / East York
Katie's Cakes claims to create all sorts of specialty cakes--wedding, corporate, birthday, erotic--though I saw no evidence of the latter when I stopped by. Instead, the petite shop had proudly...
Kensington Natural Bakery and Cafe / Annex
One of my favourite spots in the city to pick up wheat and gluten-free goods is the Kensington Natural Bakery and Cafe. Found on Bloor St. West across the street...
Korea Bakery / Koreatown
Korea Bakery is a basic, um, Korean bakery in Koreatown that sells fresh pastries, cookies and other traditional Korean baked goods. ...
L'Opera Patisserie et Cafe / North York
L'Opera is a quaint little bakery and cafe near Yonge and Finch. While they serve macarons and a variety of pastries, the best thing to get here is a slice...
La Boheme Cafe Patisserie / Yonge & Eglinton
La Boheme Cafe Patisserie is sandwiched between the many shops and cafes along the Yonge and Eglinton strip. Opened for just a month and a half, this French inspired pastry...
La Piccola Rosa Deli Bakery & Cafe / Woodbridge
La Piccola Rosa Deli Bakery & Cafe bakes just about every traditional Italian cookie and dessert delicacy you could imagine. Bonus: they make zeppole year round (a custard based mini-cake...
La Rose Bakery / Etobicoke
La Rose Bakery has everything Italian, including veal sandwiches, pizzas, fresh cheeses, cannoli and more....
La Strada Bakery / Woodbridge
La Strada Bakery has a small storefront. As you walk in, you'll see samples of bread, fresh pizza dough, some pastries, a few cakes, a few slices of their delicious...
Le Dolci / Dundas West
Le Dolci has settled into its new Dundas West digs, transforming the former Grateful Head home into its own "fun, foodie studio." Previously occupying a space down at King and Portland,...
Leah's / St. Clair West
Leah's bakery is black, white and sweet all over. Opened for just 9 weeks, it's a quaint space with lots of bright light and charm. With limited seating and no...
Leslieville Bakery / Leslieville
Leslieville Bakery occupies a famillar spot once home to the much-beloved Altitude Bakery. The latter bake shop had acquired a loyal following over its years serving shortbreads and sour cream...
Louis XIV / Richmond Hill
Louis XIV is a cake & wedding desserts shop located in the Times Square plaza. Despite its location in a Chinese strip mall, it does not sell Chinese buns, but...
Mad Batter Bakers / Liberty Village
Mad Batter Bakers specializes in gingerbread houses and cookies. Find them on Jefferson Avenue in Liberty Village....
Mary Macleod's Shortbread / Riverside
On the edges of Riverside, Mary MacLeod's Shortbread bakes, what else, some of the best shortbread in Toronto. ...
Moo Milk Bar / Beaches
Moo Milk Bar is a "milk n' cookies" type bake shop — quite literally. This new Beaches spot touts flavoured milks and homemade cookies as its main sell, with an...
More than Pies / Etobicoke
More than Pies is an Etobicoke bake shop offering pies, cakes, bars, and more....
Nino D'Aversa / North York
Nino D'Aversa in North York offers two cannoli varieties. Its signature Cannoli Siciliani and its Cannoli Sfoglia. The Cannoli Siciliani is made with fresh ricotta cheese, and the Cannoli Sfoglia...
Nino D'Aversa (Woodbridge) / Woodbridge
Nino D'Aversa has 4 locations in the GTA including the original one in Woodbridge. It kind of resembles a mini-mart with a large deli counter and hot table serving lasagna,...
OMG Baked Goodness / Dundas West
OMG Baked Goodness on Dundas West radiates an electric and eclectic energy that justifies its outcry of a name 100%. And the hot pink sign and huge antlers(!) in the...
Paris Bakery & Pastry / Junction Triangle
Paris Bakery & Pastry isn't exactly reminiscent of the type of place you'd encounter while wandering the narrow streets of France. That is, unless bakeries in France have Just for...
Paris Bakery (Geary Ave) / Bloorcourt
Paris Bakery, despite its French-inspired name, does Portuguese-style bread and treats the best. As much as I'm faithful to Nova Era, which is basically across the street, every time I...
Patisserie Marie / Woodbridge
Patisserie Marie is a Parisian style boutique bakery. Expect to indulge in French style cakes, cupcakes and macarons....
Petit Paris / Bloor West Village
Petit Paris is a little French inspired bakery in Bloor West Village. On offer are cakes, pastries and other tasty treats....
ps by Pretty Sweet / King West
ps by Pretty Sweet is a bit hard to find--those expecting a typical boxy storefront will be surprised by its location in a walk-up house, with the trio of simple...
Rahier / Bayview and Leaside
Rahier Patisserie is said to offer some of the best French baked goods and pastries in all of Leaside. Of course, many would say its croissants rival all others in...
Robyn's Cookies / Yonge & Lawrence
Robyn's Cookies is a cozy bakery just north of Lawrence on Yonge, hidden from the street and only accessible by way of a side street (Ranleigh), or for the adventurous,...
Scratch Bakery / Liberty Village
Scratch Bakery is small bakery on Jefferson Avenue in Liberty Village that specializes in gluten-free baked treats....
Serano Bakery / Pape Village
Serano Bakery is the quintessential Greek bakery; family-run, bred from authentic recipes, and filled with lots--and I mean lots--of food. No dainty little lone pastries here. The first thing...
Shasha Organic / Etobicoke
Shasha Organic sells their organic and spelt bread and cookies in health food and specialty stores throughout the Toronto area but for the best prices by far stock up at...
St. Phillips Bakery (Woodbridge) / Woodbridge
St. Phillips Bakery in Woodbridge offers a hot table, deli counter, decadent cheesecakes, and of course the big gelato bar (all ice cream is made just a few minutes down...
St. Pio Bakery / North York
St. Pio Bakery specializes in custom wedding cakes, and also offers pies, buns, cookies, and other pastries....
Sweet Boutique / Woodbridge
Sweet Boutique is a popular and elegant pasticceria specializing in delicious and beautiful creations for special occasions--from elegant wedding cakes to simple sfoglia-based birthday cakes....
Sweet Escape Patisserie / Distillery District
The Sweet Escape Patisserie is in the old Cafe Crepe location in the Distillery District. But while crepes may no longer be on the menu, there's still plenty of sweet...
Sweet Flour Bake Shop / Bloor West Village
Sweet Flour Bake Shop always smells like cookies because there are always cookies baking inside the Bloor West Village bakery, or at least whenever there are customers inside, and that's...
The Best Bakery / Weston-Mount Dennis
The Best Bakery is a boastful West Indian and "Canadian" bakery offering loaves, sweet treats, and Jamaican patties....
The Pie Shack / Beaches
"Listen, I'm a pie man," says Tim McConvey, owner of the new Pie Shack in the Beaches. "Me with no pie is like an Esso with no gas." He looks...
The Pie Shack (Annette) / Junction
The Pie Shack, the wildly popular Beaches source for flakey peaches and cream goodness, has opened a second location for west-enders. Its new shop, at the corner of Annette and...
The Red Bench / Yonge & Wellesley
The Red Bench is a new Yonge and Wellesley hybrid operation. It's a self-serve frozen yogurt shop, a loose leaf tea cafe, but front and centre is The Red Bench's...
Tori's Bakeshop / Beaches
Tori's Bakeshop has finally opened in the beaches, modestly offering its selection of vegan, natural baked goods. I say 'modestly' because unless you look closely, you wouldn't know that this shop...
Two Moms Baked Goods / Eglinton West
Two Moms Baked Goods leaves no question about its proprietors. Unsurprisingly, the business was created by two moms--Caroline David and Karen Freilich-Miller--who wanted to offer all-natural, "safe" baked treats that...
Wanda's Pie in the Sky / Kensington Market
Stepping foot in Wanda's Pie in The Sky is sort of like meeting a famous person. The name of the place has certainly made its rounds about the city. I...
Wedding Cake Shoppe / Little Italy
On our way to the Wedding Cake Shoppe, Melissa muses, "imagine one of us was going to pick out our wedding cake right now?" The thought is more jarring to...
World Class Bakers / St. Clair West
World Class Bakers was in my life for a while before I knew it. Because my shortbread- loving friend was going crazy for the gigantic shortbread cookies at Tan Coffee...
Yummy Stuff / Parkdale
For the past five years Yummy Stuff, specializing in custom cakes and decorated cookies, has been a popular online store and commercial bakery. Through word of mouth, business built...
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