Dessert anyone?

I’ve been think­ing about the fab­ulous desserts I’ve had in recent times around Wel­ling­ton (promp­ted by anoth­er couple of really good inhal­ings over the week­end).

I think we’re pretty spoilt with the num­ber and vari­ety of options frankly.

Some that stick in my mind (and I do con­fess to eat­ing a few, so these truly are the ones that have stood out for vari­ous reas­ons):

• Mat­ter­horn’s house-made ricotta hazel­nut and rais­in donuts with cin­na­mon, lem­on and vanilla curd.
• An amaz­ing warm coconut rice pud­ding with sul­tanas and can­died orange at WBC.
• The deli­cious array of Medi­ter­ranean sweet pastries and cakes in the Laz­eeza cab­in­et.
• A deli­ciously sticky (yep and large) Straw­berry Fare apple pie with car­a­mel,  tof­fee and vanilla bean ice cream.
• The Char­ley Noble ice creams inspired by apple pie, and the chocol­ate can­died bar with car­a­mel pop­corn (I did­n’t eat both, truly!).
• Any­thing with dulce de leche at El Mata­dor.
• The cam­ote enmie­lado, horchata, yoghurt, queso de ran­cho and pea­nut palaqueta (braised orange kumara, palm sug­ar, organe, yoghurt and scat­ter­ings of pea­nut palaqueta) at Cali­ente (pic­tured).
• And believe it or not, the but­ter­scotch brownie at Moven­pick with a scoop of maple wal­nut ice cream.

Some oth­er places that are always on my list if I’m think­ing about dessert (but I haven’t been for a while for any spe­cif­ic offer­ing to be fresh in mind):

• The Lib­rary – both cock­tails and desserts.
• Sweet Moth­ers Kit­chen – delight­fully hand-made pie (pecan, key lime.…).
• Zib­ibbo – espe­cially the dessert tast­ing plat­ter.

And that’s just all the stuff straight off the top of the head (errr, stom­ach).

So where are your favs?