At Pâtisserie Sadaharu Aoki, the treats are in ethereally lit cases and twinkle at you like precious gems in a jewelry store. The shops are known for modern flavors and classic pastries, such as a green matcha croissant or black sesame éclair. And there is a case of macaroons with more colors than a Crayola box.
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Bakerbots has gorgeous handcrafted cupcakes and pies so gooey and flaky, they don’t even need ice cream on top. That being said, the shop is known for gourmet ice cream sandwiches: you pick the cookie and creative flavors of ice cream like maple bacon or burnt marshmallow.
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There are several Bourke Street locations in Sydney, which means people love them! They’re known for imaginative sweet-and-savory combinations such as chicken, sweet potato, pea and lime pickle-pot pie, or pumpkin, tarragon and feta quiche. The bakeries also have more than two dozen types of fresh-made bread such as fennel, raisin and cherry sourdough.
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If you’ve never tried an egg tart before, don’t lose your egg tart virginity anywhere other than Tai Cheong. The tarts are flaky on the outside, with a silky, creamy custard on the inside. It’ll be hard to stop at one. Or 12. It’s almost all the shop makes, and all it has to.
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Every morning there is a line outside of Tartine before it opens. Locals need to pick up their loaves of country bread for the week, or the perfect tarts filled with things like coconut cream, frangipane (light almond cream) and passion fruit lime Bavarian cream.
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It’s hard to choose from the many doll-house-like cafes and pastry shops in Prague, so it says a lot this one made the list. The pristine Café Savoy with checkered marble floors feels like a setting from Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. The beloved Savoy breakfast consists of hot chocolate and a bread basket made up of coffee cake, nut cake, toast, butter and jam.
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Two words: cake buffet. That’s what this place is — tiers of platters of everything from fluffy profiteroles to slices of triple-layer cake with fresh fruit and pies that look like they came from a little rustic oven in a lodge in the Swedish mountains. Oh yeah, and the shop is attached to a castle.
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If this bread shop looks like it’s straight from the cobblestone streets of the 1800s, that’s because the owner started selling his bread on the streets of Lima, and he built a shop with a similar humble air. But there’s nothing simple about the artisan loaves like the seeded, whole wheat organic, or a hearty chunk of bread with homemade olive pate, artisan cheese and a house-made cappuccino.
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One of the first places to serve the famous cronut, Dominique Ansel Bakery runs out of that perfectly crunchy, flaky, chewy treat before noon daily. But that’s OK. They still have amazing creamy, flaky pastries like pink grapefruit honey and lavender tart, and salted pistachio religieuse (it’s like a little snowman made of profiteroles).
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At Demel in Vienna, you can watch the chefs delicately put the finishing touches on beautiful cakes you can order by the slice. The pastry shop is so well known that it has its own Wikipedia page! And it’s own museum — a cake museum — in the back where you can learn about the history of cake making and the bakery itself.
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