Unique Sweets

Sweet brunch specialties; Hawaiian flavors with Italian techniques to make frozen sweets; out-of-the-box dessert creations.

Vegan delights with everything from berries and mint to donut sandwiches; Halva Tahini donut; Portuguese-style donuts fried and coated with sugar.

Shaved ice Hawaiian treat; edgy desserts for adult palates; ice cream sandwiches with fresh, hot, funnel cakes.

Featuring French pastry shops in Los Angeles: the kouign-amann, a cake with pistachios and raspberries of Breton origin.

At Dominique Ansel Kitchen, desserts are made to order; at Good Batch, customers go wild for treats like the deconstructed candy bar called the Macaroon Ice Cream Sandwich; Snow Days provides desserts that bring out the kid in everyone.

Callie's Hot Little Biscuit for a cinnamon biscuit; Brown's Court Bakery for a peanut butter and sriracha croissant; Sweet Lulu's Bakery on Wheels for cake in a jar.

Featuring blueberry donuts and sweet potato ginger glazed donuts from Holy Donut; a kolache pastry with three kinds of berries and orange rolls from Kolache; carrot cake pancakes and fried chicken and waffle sandwiches.

In Portland, Maine, the Tandem Coffee and Bakery serves coconut cake and almond cream, as well as cornmeal cake with strawberries and almonds; in Charleston, EVO Craft Bakery offers a selection of confections featuring peanut butter and chocolate.

Scratch Baking Co. in South Portland for the Toaster Jam Scone; Concord Grape and Peanut Butter Snack Cake; Movie Night Cake, made with cocoa chiffon cake, popcorn buttercream and pretzel peanut brittle.

Discovering unique sweets in the San Francisco Bay Area; why people are raving about the pies at Pietisserie in Oakland; a ruby red beet pie that brims with roasted beets, mashed and mixed into a creamy sweet filling.

Treats that take classic desserts and give them a modern twist; shakedown ice cream parlor in San Francisco presents all the flavors of a German chocolate cake to enjoy in a drinkable way.

Visiting Portland, Ore., to discover some of the city's delicious treats; Bushel and Peck Bakeshop serves a sweet and tart marionberry mint muffin, a double chocolate squash scone with espresso maple glaze and a pretzel almond caramel bar.

Unique foods of New York City; paletas at La Newyorkina; Thai street sweets and ice cream at the Juicy Spot Café; apple compote and custard cream Obanyaki at Mocu-Mocu.

Unique ways to add fruits and veggies to your morning meal with a tropical breakfast bruschetta; blue corn zucchini bread; strawberry mint hand pie.

Sampling cutting-edge sweet creations; coconut cremeaux at The Pig and The Lady in Honolulu; whole vanilla bean ice cream by the creator of the Cronut in New York City; raspberry ice box cake at Sweet Lulu's Bakery on Wheels in Charleston.