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?