Coffee & Treats in Belmont

Barefoot Coffee Roasters specializes in mostly organic coffees harvested from the world over that display delicate coloratura notes and flavor profiles exemplifying the origin of each bean. Be it the La Montanita #27 from El Salvador ($24), the sweetly sinful Sweetness! Espresso blend (12 oz., $13), or even the Kopakama produced by women's co-op members in Rwanda ($12), an education in coffee flavors is yours for the taking. The complementary sweet nectar of bovine from Straus Family Creamery enriches the café's creations, and delectable confections from Satura Cakes and Snake & Butterfly Chocolates promise to please any post- or pre-coffee palate.

Culture Organic Frozen Yogurt is a healthier way to sate a sweet cheek. The freshly prepared concoctions are enhanced by active cultures and complemented by toppings such as seasonal organic fruit. Culture's menu features a bevy of sweet foundations, including original, vanilla accents, signature chocolate, and seasonal blends. Frozen yogurts start at $3.99 for a small before scintillating toppings (up to $1.29) are added. Top off any sweet structure with flavors such as coconut-crunch granola, plums, mangoes, dried raspberries, chocolate-chip cookies, brownie chunks, dried banana, seasonal specific offerings, and more. The spoon-averted can enjoy frozen Yo'Wiches, yogurt blanketed between freshly baked cookies ($4.49), or a mango Fro Yo Shake, which brings bursting flavor to a highly drinkable package ($5.99).

Every Sugar Butter Flour cake is hand-crafted using the most decadent flavors, with no artificial ingredients or intelligence added. Using the finest liquors and fruits, head pastry chef Irit Ishai combines unparalleled dedication with more than 10 years of cake-artistry experience when crafting her creative confections. The smorgasbord of decadence includes cake flavors ranging from classics like vanilla and chocolate to unique tastes such as banana and hummingbird (banana, pineapple, and pecan). Cakes can be further customized by adding a filling choice such as mocha butter cream or white-chocolate ganache, or punched up with a fruity preserve such as raspberry or apricot. Custom cake prices vary depending on size and complexity, but many are available for about $80. The skilled staff is happy to architect even the zaniest cake concept, whether sculpted in three dimensions or built into a more traditional tiered cake.

Tutti Frutti’s self-serve yogurt ($0.37 per ounce) represents a healthy and delectable alternative to Ben and Jerry's Ice-Cream Mafia (the intimidating new flavor of protection money, brass knuckles, and Tommy-gun shells beaten savagely, then buried in a swirl of cannoli ice cream). Get your fruit fix with tart flavors such as pomegranate, acai berry, and the aromatic lychee—or opt for something on the creamy side. Cappuccino diehards will scramble to sample its yogurt counterpart, and pistachio’s distinctive flavor will bring back memories of that magical summer spent toiling on a Turkmenistan pistachio farm. Finally, adorn your edible artwork with a sprinkling of 50 toppings. Health nuts can keep it ab-tastic with fresh mango and blueberries, and others can turn it into a breakfast fit for hours of Looney Tunes cartoons with Fruit Pebbles and Cookie Crisp. More experimental appetites, meanwhile, can transform their yogurt into a battlefield where gummi bears do battle with their natural enemy, gummi blue sharks. And if just the thought of combining Reese’s Pieces and jelly beans on top of strawberry-cheesecake frogurt sends you into a diabetic coma, sugar-free and dairy-free options are also available.

The skilled staff at Edible Arrangements artfully adjusts premium berries, melons, and citrus into dazzling fruit bouquets. Ideal for special occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, and NASA rover launches, nutritional bundles arrive in a variety of vases ranging from footballs to Hello Kitty containers. Each bouquet can be complemented with a box of chocolate-dipped fruit housing strawberries, banana slices, or Granny Smith apple wedges.

Coco-luxe Confections fields a skilled team of confectionary clairvoyants who are ready to share their gourmet candy-crafting skills with the cacao-hungry masses. The build-your-own-chocolate-bar class instills beginner chocolatiers with the mediation skills needed to tame the melancholy attitude of rich and pensive dark chocolate by schooling them in chocolate-tempering techniques. Students can then combine fresh and flavorful ingredients to create six customized edible ingots ready to be devoured on-site or in the privacy of your own dessert den. Artistically inclined academics looking to expand sugar-sculpting skills beyond the slab can opt for the three-hour truffle-making class, in which a morsel midwife will lead a demonstration on the birth of baby bite-size chocolates before setting students free to focus on rolling, dipping, and decorating their own litter of 25. Students create two styles of fresh cream truffles in the class.