Hero Doughnuts
Located in Homewood, Hero Doughnuts started as a shared commercial kitchen where founder Will Drake started his 2-day process of making brioche style, yeast doughnuts. What started as a"pop-up" has now become a joy filled shop with fresh fruit cooked down and mixed into glazes and fillings, topped with crunchy nuts, streusel, chocolate and sprinkles.
Dreamcakes Bakery
Dreamcakes is a locally owned bakery and cupcake truck that offers Birmingham high quality baked goods six days a week with over 100 flavors of cupcakes, brownies, pound cakes, French macaroons, oatmeal creme pies, cannoli, cookies, and more. Along with their cupcake truck they also create custom cakes for any occasion.
Pastry Art Bake Shoppe
Home of the Original Baby Bite, this couple owned sweets shop was awarded for their "scratch" cake creations. Carol and Dennis Gregg have carried their passion for art and baking through fifteen years into their profession. Everything in their shop is baked fresh to order with a quality and friendliness like no other. They bake anything from cakes to cupcakes to even fresh pastries for any wedding.
Birmingham Candy Company
CEO Wayne and CCO Cassie are sweet loving fanatics! They not only love to eat them but make them and see the pure enjoyment on their customers faces! Their sweets company is first and foremost a family business with a goal to "create a hometown candy store that you and your family will be proud of." Southern, handcrafted, and local are their three cornerstones to success with only the freshest locally grown products. Plus, their website features downloadable coloring pages! :)
Steel City Pops
Local Owner Jim Watkins discovered a new kind of tasty treat called pops while on vacation with his family in Nashville, Tennessee. He decided everyone should know about these so he started his own restaurant and developed his recipes with his mother. Soon the shop was born in 2012 in Homewood, Alabama and now there are 13 locations all across the southeast. From the first moment of the idea to now, the entire family and business are filled with passion to keep their customers and provide sweet and savory treats.
Doodle's
Birmingham's only hand-crafted delicious shaved Italian ice and sorbets for 35+ years with catering trucks available for your next event. No processed ingredients and each flavor is removed quickly to keep all the flavors fresh. The flavors range from season to season but of course keeping the popular ones year round! Plus, their trucks love coming to you all year round for your favorite shaved ice treat!
Savage's Bakery
Mr. and Mrs. Savage opened in 1939 and have been a Birmingham landmark for over 70 years in Downtown Homewood. They have always been known for their Meltaways, Iced Smiley Face Cookies, Butterflake Rolls, and...CAKES! All treats are original recipes even when Mr. Scott purchased the bakery in 1978 helping it flourish into what is known today. They always impress during the holidays with their pies! Some include apple, cherry, pumpkin, sweet potato, and of course Pecan.
Big Spoon Creamery
This wife and husband team both have extensive background as chefs in some of the best restaurants in the country and worked together at Bottega! They both had a dream to combine their loves of people and ice cream and in 2017 their dreams became a reality and Big Spoon was born in Avondale with their second location in Homewood in 2019. Their primary goal is to create a menu of seasonal flavors using local ingredients but also bringing new approach to classics while creating an atmosphere for their team, customers, and ultimately the community.
Chocolatá
Kathy D'Agostino created Chocolatá "grown from mother earth, but divinely inspired" using "single origin chocolate that is ethically sourced from 100% Latin American farms". Kathy learned the art of chocolate at her first job at a chocolatier. She opened in 2017 and says she "enjoyed watching the once quiet streets of Birmingham, Alabama slowly come back to life with people from all walks of life enjoying the sweet aroma, beautiful presentation and cozy atmosphere of her dream-like shop.
Insomnia Cookies
Insomnia Cookies was founded in a college dorm room in 2003 at the University of Pennsylvania by Seth Berkowitz now specializing in delivering warm, delicious cookies right to the doors of individuals and companies alike. They opened their first brick and mortar store in Syracuse, NY in 2006 and two years later started using food trucks. Today there are more than 100 locations and they are still growing (sadly without anymore food trucks)!
Cookie Fix
Founder and Chief Cookie Officer Amy Jackson was inspired by a Pillsbury Bake-Off Cookbook while at the grocery store with her mother. Years later with a family she was always baking cookies for everyone and every event where they became very popular. So, she started keeping frozen cookie dough in the freezer so she always had cookies ready to be made. From here she created her own bakery from it as a local Alabama baker. She stands out from others by loading her cookies with the finest ingredients and making her cookies tall with crispy outsides and gooey insides. Absolute perfection!
Cookie Dough Magic
This local cookie dough shop set out in 2018 to be a cool, laid back, and cozy place to hang out with your friends, and family of ALL ages. Their mission is to create an unforgettable experience of enjoying safe-to-eat cookie dough desserts while being a positive impact on everyone who comes in contact with them. They use only the best ingredients including heat treated flour which kills off all the bacteria. They also use pasterized eggs, meaning there are no egg substitutes only the real deal.
Smoosh Cookies
Founder Jay Reyes' started SMOOSH in the spring of 2005 out of a big teal truck in Houston, Texas thanks to his grandmother's extraordinary baking skills. He found comfort in cookies and no matter how hard he tried to stay away from the kitchen to bake he just couldn't. He decided to reinvent an American classic dessert of an ice cream cookie sandwich but make it more personal. From Houston he opened two more stores in Texas in College Station and Katy but finally moved out of Texas to Hoover, Alabama.
Bendy's Cookies & Cream
Here we have a husband and wife team who got married and drove 500 miles away from home to buy a 1990 Chevy P30 step van to convert into a food truck. Ben and Wendy, or Bendy as they are called, fell in love and pursued Wendy's and her friend Jessica's dream to own an ice cream sandwich shop called Cookies & Cream. In January of 2015, the food truck joined their family and their business took off a year later in 2016 until finally three years later they opened their storefront in Cahaba Heights. What a sweet story!
Nothing Bundt Cakes
The perfect ingredients make the perfect recipe which happened when co-founders Dena Tripp and Debbie Shwetz joined their kitchens in 1997 to make cakes for their friends and family. They realized that their side project could become something bigger and today has grown nationwide. Their delicious cakes, readily available and perfect ingredients have filled the gap we never knew we were missing!
Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams
This new pop-up sweet shop recently opened in Pepper Place and will definitely help cure your cravings! Jeni, the founder, has been making ice creams professionally for two decades! Before opening her shop in 2002, she studied art, worked in a bakery, and blended perfumes and essential oils. Jeni was ahead of her time using whole ingredients and dairy from grass-pastured cows rather then synthetic flavorings and commodity ice cream mix before it became a food trend. Go check it out!
Who Doesn't Like Cake
Who Doesn't Like Cake is the question that brought founder, Bianca, back to her passion of baking. After graduation, she was hired as a Pastry Chef at a local restaurant while baking her goods on the side. After seven years of this, her dream became a reality and she opened her bakery. Go visit Bianca and remember to eat dessert first and alwys ask yourself, Who Doesn't Like Cake?
Bluff Park Ice Cream Shoppe
David Hare, after 47 years in construction and close to retirement, wanted to create a buisness with his daughter, Alex, and include his grandchildren that would be both fun and educational. He wanted something retro and new and comfortable for all ages. Even the dipping cabinets were designed to allow the young children to see all the flavors and which their ice cream be dipped. Gather up your family and/or friends and visit this family owned ice cream shoppe!
Snow Shavery
Change the way you view ice cream when you step into Snow Shavery. Their decadent shaved snow will have you on the train to flavortown in a matter of minutes. This unique type of ice cream is healthier than traditional ice cream and has even been said to have the consistency of cotton candy! Go check it out for yourself!
YoYo Donuts
Ever seen a square donut? Well today's your lucky day because YoYo Donuts has them all! Their donuts are square because they don't cut corners! Check out this locally owned business and see how square donuts compare to circles!
