Sweet Spots: Where to Find the Best Dessert in Adelaide

Whether you're a devoted sweet tooth or an occasional indulger, Adelaide's dessert scene promises to satisfy your sugar cravings. Try as you may, dessert is a delicacy that is near impossible to resist, and when gooey chocolate cakes or flakey pastries are served in front of your eyes, it is temptation at its finest.

Round up the chocoholics, adventurous orderers and lifelong sweets enthusiasts to embrace the sugar high and join us as we make our way through the best desserts in Adelaide.

Seoul Sweetie

No country does sweet treats quite like South Korea. Light, fluffy and fresh desserts are their specialty, ideal for when you want to enjoy something sugary post-dinner, but don't want to feel sick.

Seoul Sweetie is the late-night dessert bar in Adelaide that's taking locals by storm. Next door to its sister restaurant, Busan Baby, and run by the same team, it's the perfect dinner-then-dessert combo. Expect fluffy cakes and creamy, fruity delights that are perfect to share with friends.

270 Morphett Street, Adelaide

Zacary Patisserie

Zacary Patisserie - an extension of Zacary Desserts - has been a welcome addition to the Adelaide Arcade. Home to Greek-inspired treats including glazed cakes and customised desserts, created by talented Patisserie Chef Zak, a former contestant on ‘Zumbo’s Just Desserts’.

Pull on your stretchy pants and prepare to indulge in shortbread biscuits, decadent cakes, cheesecakes and pastries – but don’t forget to snap a pic of the sugary masterpiece first!

Shop 19, Adelaide Arcade, Adelaide

Mirra

Mirra is the dessert bar transforming weekends into delightful high tea experiences. This charming and cosy cafe boasts pastel and purple interiors, setting the stage for an afternoon of sweet indulgence with the girls.

The high tea features delectable treats like scones, caramel chocolate fondant, and raspberry crème brûlée. Complementing this sugary symphony is an array of loose-leaf teas and vibrant mocktails, adding a refreshing twist to your teatime. 

40 East Terrace, Adelaide

Just Bliss Chocolates

Find this chocolatier in Adelaide's Rundle Mall and browse their exquisite offerings of gourmet chocolate truffles, personalised chocolates, and chocolate gifts.

Using hand-painted cocoa butter and decorative chocolate transfers, Just Bliss Chocolates craft artisanal truffles that are a treat for the eyes and taste buds alike. They also serve specialty coffee and house-made crepes, yum!

5/38 Gawler Place, Adelaide

Shirni / Sweets by Parwana Dessert House

Bursting with bright colours and bold flavours, the traditional Afghan desserts from Shirni / Sweets by Parwana make the perfect sweet gift – for yourself or a loved one.

Find them at Plant 3 Bowden and marvel over the edible art. Think towering ornate cakes, Afghan cream rolls, and indulgent Gulab jamun – a traditional spiced milk dumpling in a rose, cardamom and cinnamon syrup. 

Plant 3 Bowden 6, 14 Fourth Street, Bowden

Bracegirdle’s House of Fine Chocolate

If chocolate is your thing, then you'll love Bracegirdle’s House of Fine Chocolate. The family-owned, South Australian business is also Australia’s most-awarded artisan chocolatier!

Visit one of their cafes across Adelaide and savour the flavours of their range of chocolates, or stick around for their deliciously decadent high tea of traditional scones, sandwiches and layers of sweet desserts to finish.

Blackwood, Clarence Gardens & McLaren Vale

St Louis House of Fine Ice Cream and Desserts

Head to St Louis House of Fine Ice Cream and Desserts for a scoop of heaven. Their reputation for creating the most decadent and indulgent European desserts and gelato is clear to see.

Expect new chocolates, a peanut butter and caramel gelato bar, and ‘super sundaes’, piled high with baked treats, fresh gelato and lashings of chocolatey sauce.

Several locations across Adelaide

Live A Little Gelato

Live A Little Gelato specialise in gelato and artisan bakery items, hand-made in the Adelaide Hills. Head to Plant 4 Bowden on Wednesday and Friday evenings or at the weekend and treat yourself to the delicious gelato, or choose from the range of baked delights.

There are Portuguese tarts, various sweet pies and thick cinnamon scrolls loaded with a cream cheese topping. There are treats for those with intolerances, with vegan gelato and gluten-free waffles available.

5 Third Street, Bowden

Muratti Cakes & Gateaux

Muratti is where the delectable assortment of cakes, tarts and croquembouches attract sugar addicts from all over Adelaide. Opulent creations glisten invitingly from shiny glass displays, with rows of vibrant-hued petit gateaux in delicate flavours like berry apple and chocolate cherry.

With cakes that are almost too pretty to eat, Muratti showcases the best of European confectionary via fine layers of dacquoise, praline, mousse, sable breton and compote, garnished with everything from chocolate shards to whole macarons.

114B Prospect Road, Prospect

Shibui Dessert Bar

Discover sweet-tooth heaven in the dessert bar famous for serving up some of the most innovative and intriguing desserts in Adelaide.

Shibui Dessert Bar has an ever-evolving menu featuring sweets such as white chocolate redskin mousse, fluffy meringue bombe Alaska and their famous macaron ice cream sandwiches. 

2/160 Grote Street, Adelaide

Love, Stephy Dessert Café

Step through Love, Stephy's front door and enter a dessert wonderland. This fairytale dessert bar is pink from head to toe, from paper roses swarming the roof, to pink wallpaper and pink marble flooring fitting the theme.

Their extensive macaron flavours will have you intrigued and their petit gateaux always hit the

62-68 Hindley Street, Adelaide

Eggless Dessert Cafe

Funnily enough, everything dished up at the Eggless Dessert Café is – you guessed it - eggless. This vegan-friendly, homemade cafe sources local ingredients from around South Australia to create some of the best desserts in Adelaide.

The menu includes cakes, sundaes, tarts, custards and doughnuts. Can't decide on what to order? Try the tasting plate and sample mini versions of all their delicious treats.

162 Goodwood Road, Goodwood

Steven ter Horst Chocolatier

For the fine dining sweet tooths, Steven ter Horst Chocolatier is one to fantasise about. The smell of beautifully handcrafted artisan chocolates and petit gateau fills the room, with many items on the menu hand-crafted by Mr Horst himself.

Try the chocolate cloud, featuring delicate chocolate mousse with vanilla cream centre and flourless sponge base, or lemon cheesecake with blood orange compote centre. Yum.

4/185 King William Road, Hyde Park

Lukoumades

These bite-sized, crispy on the outside, fluffy on the inside, sweet honey balls are the Greek treat you didn't know you needed. Thankfully, Lukoumades is here to show you what you've been missing!

Choose the original Lukoumades for donuts drizzled in honey and cinnamon, or treat yourself to a Kinder Surprise or Oreo crumble-topped Lukoumades for a sugar hit.

Shop 2/173 King William Road, Hyde Park

Red Cacao

Red Cacao is the boutique chocolatier in Stirling creating intricately crafted desserts. Choose from chocolate blocks to Grenache or truffle, all intertwined with intriguing ingredients such as mulberry, local shiraz and chilli.

If you don't have time to get your chocolate fix during the day, each Friday night this quaint venue is transformed into a moody, candle-lit locale, perfect for those sweet and intimate date nights.

3/41 Mount Barker Road, Stirling

Chocolatree

Chocolatree is a destination where chocoholics come together. For those who struggle with eyes bigger than their stomach, this is where we suggest you loosen your belt buckle and indulge.

The only question we pose: Would you prefer the crème brulee with caramelised sugar and fresh strawberries, or the sago pearls cooked in coconut cream, lychee, mango coulis & coconut sorbet?

25 O'Connell Street, Adelaide

48 Flavours

Nothing beats a good gelato at the end of a big day. When there are 48 Flavours of award-winning gelato to choose from, you can't go wrong.

Multiple locations across Adelaide means it's easy to get your 48 Flavours fix, where you can play it safe with classic chocolate or go bold with a unique flavour like Caramelised Fig and Honeycomb Pannacotta.

Multiple locations across Adelaide

Now that you have a taste for all of the best desserts in Adelaide, perhaps take a look at our favourite brunch and high tea spots around town, finishing up with Adelaide’s most Instagrammable spots for some picture-perfect fun!