Chocolate, Desserts and Patisserie

This Japanese brand sells custard stuffed dough sticks and soft serve ice cream. They pride themselves on using high quality free-range milk from a farm on Japan's rustic Hokkaido island.

Zhaowu Xishi is a cutesy teahouse and dessert shop in Dashilan that specializes in beautifully crafted cakes, fitted to the mold of rabbits, gems, and various natural objects. For a set price of RMB 113, you get a choice of tea and dessert.

A refreshingly focused menu of simple but flavorful gilatos is on offer at this Topwin mall dessert stand.

First opened in Beverly Hills, California in 1978, The Cheesecake Factory has gone on to become an American mall mainstay restaurant for families, high school lovebirds, and anyone looking to pig-out on family-style dining options that boast some of the highest calorific content this side of, well, America.

Heartistry bakery (formerly Two Tablespoons) in Dongzhimen sells a range of cupcakes and bread that span Western as well as Asian-inspired flavors.

The Italy-based chocolate shop was built in 1878, it locates at basement of the new zone of China World Mall. There are various chocolate to choose and charge by gram, as well as a bunch of gelatos, prices are not inexpensive, one scope of gelato is RMB 38, two flavors to four flavors are RMB 55-68, toppings are RMB 5 for each kind, if you’d like to buy a kilogram, it’s RMB 358, crepes are RMB 48-70. As for the drinks, coffee are around RMB 45, different teas are RMB 30-60, and hot chocolate (RMB 28-65).

Located in the basement of Shangdu Soho, Koka is a Japanese cake shop that provides no fewer than 10 different delicate Japanese-style cakes (RMB 28-58), such as double cheesecake, sora (chocolate), mori (raspberry), as well as a variety of flavored tofu (RMB 25) and Swiss rolls (RMB 25-28).

To My Dearest’s European-style desserts are deliberately crafted to entice as many senses as possible, making for a good option for refined, elegantly creative sweets in Dongsi Shitiao.

An egg tarts shop at Sanlitun Nanjie, RMB 12 per one. The crust was not puff pastry style but the shortcrust pastry, and it was so thick and tasted like cookies which gave a kick of milk and butter. About the custard, it smelled like goat’s chewable tablets and it was sugary sweet.

After winning The Hutong’s Cookie Monster Bake Off last year, Jon Ellis decided to take his passion for baking a step further with Big bear Baked Goods. Don’t miss his signature Mud & Snow cookie – a dark chocolate chunk base sprinkled with sea salt. Cookies can be purchased from The Corner Melt or at bigbearbakedgoods.com.