Coffee & Treats in North York

Artsy Baker's team of confectionery wizards crafts customized baked goods for all occasions, from chocolate-skull cakes for Halloween to Muppet cupcakes for kids’ birthday parties. Working with more than 25 cupcake and 10 cake varieties, bakers frost their housemade designs with icings including caramel buttercream and cream cheese.

While Artsy Baker can easily make enough lemon or red velvet cakes to feed as few as 5 and as many as 100 people, the company also supplies customers with ingredients to make their own cakes at home. These cake and cupcake mixes are nut-free, gluten-free, sugar-free, and vegan. Homemade treats can be topped with ready-to-use fondant, which helps aspiring cake artists to make cakes more legit than a CPA’s notarized tax return. In addition, Lil' Artsy Baker birthday parties impart decorating tips to kids, letting them haul their masterpieces away in take-home boxes.

The Marshmallow Factory, born after an inspiring marshmallow landed in a fateful latte, invites guests to create their own airy desserts from a bounty of flavoured marshmallow creams. Within the technicolor, sweet-smelling shop, guests can select a base for their dessert composition, filling a cup, tart, biscuit, or chocolate shell with flavoured fluff before layering on a choice of 20 toppings such as sprinkles, gummy bears, or powered sugar. The sweet cream can also coat fresh fruit or foam down in a coffee or hot chocolate.

YoYo's Yogurt Cafe believes that a good frozen yogurt is like a fine wine, as both treats require deft cultivation in order to reward taste buds with flavour and health-boosting benefits. Self-serve machines churn a rotating menu of six, fat-free flavours of frozen yogurt, each blended from a fresh, liquid base chock-full of probiotic cultures that fortify the digestive system and re-kindle its interest in modern art. This friendly flora can counteract mild to moderate lactose intolerance, making the frosty treats safe for sensitive tummies.

Champions of making treats from scratch using high-quality ingredients, The Cookie Messenger’s team of artistically inclined staffers bake and decorate cookies for all manner of special occasion, from weddings to housewarmings. Bakers eschew additives and preservatives as they forge their classic shortbread cookies in the company’s nut-free facility, opting instead for all-natural ingredients such as butter, eggs, vanilla, and sustainably harvested love. Once plucked from the oven, confectioners decorate the sweet noshes with edible embellishments such as glitter dust and sugar pearls, customizing the centre cookie with a heartfelt note or individualized barcode for the recipient. Each meticulously arranged bouquet arrives at doors with individually wrapped cookies to ensure freshness for up to a week.