Coffee & Treats in Brighton

Riley Greider is the mind, hands, and sweet teeth behind Sugar Mountain Bake Shoppe, a gourmet bakery specializing in cupcakes. More than 128 flavors rotate across the shop?s menu in groups of 13 to 20 each day, baked daily in small batches from fresh ingredients. With such an enormous repertoire of recipes, the cupcake case has room for classics such as carrot cake alongside fancier flavors such as cinnamon french toast and cherry cr?me br?l?e?not to mention the decidedly outlandish, such as loaded baked potato and Game Day Chili. While retaining a home-baked look, many of the cakelets wear elaborate toppers of sprinkles, frosting swirls, or fruit. All this creativity won the shop the title of Best Cupcakes in City Newspaper?s 2011 Readers? Choice poll.

Moonlight Creamery, an ice cream shop founded by an engineer and her entrepreneurial neighbor, stresses two things: confections and community. The former is abundant, as scoops of homemade ice cream highlight a menu of sweets that includes cakes and pies, hot fudge sundaes with roasted walnuts, and handmade truffles. As for its mission to give back, the shop looks far and near, focusing on everything from using Fair Trade coffee and chocolate to hosting an annual Scholarship Day that raises money for its employees and local high school seniors who are enrolling in college.

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An online shop for artisanal eats, Incredibly Edible Cookie Company concocts preservative- and additive-free treats teeming with domestic and European chocolate. The shop specializes in bulk orders for events, including occasions that require the construction of grandiose cookie cathedrals. A half-dozen giant chocolate-chip cookies cause lesser cookies to cower in fear ($15) and a dozen zebra cookies blend in at any black-tie affair ($8.50). Sate six guests' cravings for tropical fruit with a half-dozen coconut brownies ($16.50) or mollify sweet teeth with a half-dozen Turkish coffee-bean brownies ($16.50). The shop also outputs bake-at-home cookies, which remain soft and doughy, awaiting their metamorphosis into fully cooked, flightless foodstuffs.

Dolce Cupcakery subdues sweet teeth with an ever-evolving selection of cup-sized confections crafted from scratch. The petite-sweet shop offers a rotating cast of standard- and jumbo-sized cupcakes ($2.50–$3.50 per cupcake), with each sweetmeat donning a dapper frock of smooth frosting and stylish toppings such as white-chocolate curls, caramelized pecans, and peanut-butter cups. Relive childhood memories of tender lunchroom food fights with the peanut-butter-and-jelly cupcake, or traverse the graham-cracker crust of the s'mores cupcake, crowned with a toasty cap of marshmallow frosting. Dolce also offers gluten-free options for those who suffer from uncontrollable bouts of barley-induced hucklebucking.

Owners Fausto and Massimo Albano, who hail from the Basilicata region of Italy, win over American palates with a menu brimming with southern-Italian flavors. Culinary expeditions begin with appetizers such as the Sicilian-style fried calamari accompanied by kalamata olives and asiago cheese ($10.95). The Lemoncello pizza selection features 20 red and white personal pizzas ($10.95), uniting shaved parmigiano, fresh arugula, tomatoes, olive oil, and lemon juice to form a doughy creation more impressive than the Sphinx, which is made entirely of buttermilk biscuits. Dive fork-first into the egg-battered Lemoncella artichoke resting atop a bed of angel-hair pasta and drizzled with a lemon-and-white-wine reduction ($18.95). The lasagna topped with rich marinara sauce wedges layers of ricotta, mozzarella, beef, pork, and spinach between its pasta shelves ($13.95). Homemade gelato leads a pack of sweet-tooth-sating desserts as live music makes nightly appearances—like the boogieman and Jay Leno.