If you're looking for an Israeli consensus, it's probably the love for sweets. Whether it's the sweet flavor of chocolate, fruit, or pastry, almost all of us love the delightful mouthfeel that comes with a successful dessert.
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Desserts are an integral part of our being. Some of them are indulgent, colorful, and photogenic, many of them adorn our Instagram feeds, and some are plain and classic in appearance, but all have an addictive and unforgettable taste.
From north to south, in almost every restaurant and bakery you will find indulgent desserts. We have collected the best for you.
Throughout Israel
The Showroom Bakehouse - Cronut
The cronut is a rather indulgent American invention - a crossbreeding between a croissant and a donut. Its shape is round, it is filled with peanut butter cream and halva, and coated with white chocolate and milk chocolate.
Price: 18 NIS
Can be found in the chain's branches
Bakery – Cream puff / Profiterole
Inside the display case of the Delicatessen, one can find the bakery's addictive and mythological dessert (which is also served as a dessert in the "Hotel Montefiore" restaurant). This is a small cream puff that apparently looks like all the puffs, only here it is caramelized with a layer of crunchy sugar and filled with delicious cream.
Price: NIS 6
Can be found in the branches of Bakery and Delicatessen
Tel Aviv
Amita Pastry house TLV – Palmiers (Elephant ears)
A cookie with an interesting twist. Pastry chefs Michal Bouton and Anna Shapiro decided to bake it from crispy croissant dough instead of puff pastry (pâte feuilletée). The result: crispness. The croissant dough together with the sugar gives the cookie its exceptional texture, and it replaces the crumbly texture that characterizes puff pastry. Pierre Hermé, the famous pastry chef and author of renowned cookbooks who visited the place recently, was also enthusiastic about this dessert.
Price: 10 NIS.
Address: 10 Shalma Road, Tel Aviv
Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday 7:00-19:00, Friday 7:00-16:00
The Pastry box - Mousse balls
The Pastry Box by Nurit Chitayat is unusual: it is a Japanese patisserie with French touches. Therefore, you will find combinations of matcha, black sesame and Sake in cakes and pastries. The dessert we liked is colorful rice mousse balls, which come in six flavors (chocolate mousse, vanilla mousse, mango mousse, black sesame mousse, passion fruit mousse and raspberry mousse) and are sold in packs of 6 pieces.
Price: NIS 72
Address: 7 Rival St., Tel Aviv
Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday 8:00-18:00, Friday 8:00-13:00
Yaffa Knafeh - Crunch Pistachio Knafeh
A new dessert made at Yaffa Knafeh, a long-standing patisserie originating in Jaffa. Here they serve knafeh baked over coals, crispy and sweet, with a handmade pistachio and white chocolate popsicle placed on top of it. The dessert gets a creamy and crunchy texture thanks to the roasted pistachio pieces that decorate the coating.
Price: NIS 30
Address: 175 Dizengoff St., Tel Aviv
Opening hours: Sunday-Wednesday, Saturday 11:00-00:30, Thursday 11:00-1:00, Friday 10:00-12:30, 13:30-1:00
Alon Shabo - Tiramisu
The display cabinet of this talented pastry chef is full of goodies - from pistachio and raspberry tart to lime and Louisa tart. We particularly liked an inexpensive dessert - a small tiramisu that comes in an individual glass at the perfect height, where you can push the spoon all the way in and lift it back into your mouth loaded with all the goodies.
Price: NIS 25
Address: Chlenov 22, Tel Aviv
Opening hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00-18:00, Friday 8:00-15:00
Shroitman Bakery - Samneh yeast dessert
Chef Eran Shroitman has probably found the perfect combination between a Yemenite Kubaneh and a classic yeast pastry. The pastry is made from Samneh (clarified butter originating from Yemeni cuisine), fenugreek seeds, cinnamon and a dough reminding a yeast dough pastry.
Price: NIS 16 for one pastry or NIS 64 for a whole strip.
Address: Nachalat Yitzhak 30, Tel Aviv
Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday 7:00-17:00, Friday 7:00-15:00
Cakery – Cinnabon (cinnamon roll)
Here, too, we chose something a little different: the sweet shop of pastry chef Moran Gil is full of divided and colorful cakes, but we were attracted by a completely different pastry - the Cinnabon (cinnamon roll). Moran Gil's Cinnabons are sold in a pack or a unit, and the bite is full of cinnamon flavor, just like the original.
Price per unit: NIS 21
Address: 31 Allenby St., Tel Aviv
Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday 8:00-19:00, Friday 8:00-15:00
HaOfim HaKtanim (The little bakers) - the Swedish cake
The pastry chef of the neighborhood bakery returned a few years ago from a trip to Sweden. There he fell in love with the Swedish cakes and decided to make a similar cake, loaded with layers but with a local interpretation. These are circles of yeast dough with chocolate and a filling of crème pâtissier mousse and brownies.
Price: NIS 55 per strip.
Address: 25 Emek Bracha St., Tel Aviv
Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday 7:00-20:00, Friday 7:00-15:00
Reviva & Celia - Panna Cotta Dulce
Adi Barzilai, the chief pastry chef of "Reviva & Celia", took the loved panna cotta dessert, took it apart and reassembled it - both in appearance and in taste. The Panna Cotta Dulce consists of caramelized white chocolate with butter crumble and caramel with zests of citrus mix - lime, orange, finger lime and lemon.
Price: NIS 54
Address: Tzameret G, Nissim Aloni 10, Tel Aviv
Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday 8:00-23:00, Friday 8:00-16:00, 17:30-23:00
Pop & Pope pastry house - Corn dessert
In the restaurant of Chef Shahaf Shabtai, a special dessert was invented that consists of one raw material - corn: in the center of the plate is a crème brûlée made of corn and on top cornflakes milk ganache, caramelized popcorn, polenta crumble and salted roasted corn kernels.
Price: NIS 66
Address: 28 Ha'Arba'a St. 14th floor, Tel Aviv
Opening hours: Sunday 18:00–00:00, Monday–Thursday, Saturday 12:00–15:30, 18:00–00:00, Friday 18:00–00:00
Eran Shvartzbard - Spanish Mille-feuilles
Cremeschnitte is made of several layers of baked puff pastry (mille-feuilles) with filling. The idea for this pastry was born when Shvartzbard spent time at the famous "Hofmann" patisserie in Barcelona, where he tasted the pastry and fell in love. After that, he decided that he had to sell this delight here in Israel as well. The ingredients of the mille-feuille are caramelized puff pastry sheets, refined vanilla cream, roasted pecan praline, apricot jam perfumed with thyme and lemon.
Price: NIS 41
Address: 3 Aluf Kalman Magen St., Tel Aviv
Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday 7:00-20:00, Friday 7:00-14:00
Jerusalem
Café Kadosh - the Bride from Istanbul
A dessert based on crispy dough with almond sablé (a kind of French biscuit) filled with crème pâtissier, and in the center caramel and chestnuts mousse with a caramel coated puff. The dessert was born while the couple, pastry chefs Keren and Itzik Kadosh, were watching the Turkish telenovela "The Bride from Istanbul". That evening Keren prepared the chestnut dessert, and the next day, when the waitress at the Café asked for its name, Keren answered: "Meet the 'Bride from Istanbul'." Since then, the name of this dessert has been fixed, and it became the signature dessert of Café Kadosh.
Price: NIS 45
Address: 6 Shlomtsiyon Hamalka St, Jerusalem
Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday 7:00-23:00, Friday 7:00-14:00
Kaboom - Rocher Caramel Chocolate teacake (Crembo)
The winner of the reality TV show "Bake Off", pastry chef Shay Golan, created a unique Chocolate teacake (Crembo) menu for Israel's first Crembo house in the Mahane Yehuda market. 12 types of Crembos in different flavors are sold there. We liked especially the 'Rocher Caramel' Crembo, which is made of a tartlet filled with chocolate ganache with a crispy Ferrero Rocher chocolate ball in the center.
Price: NIS 25
Address: 3 Ha'Eshkol St., Mahane Yehuda Market, Jerusalem
Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday 11:00-23:00, Friday 10:00 until one hour before Sabbath starts; on Saturday one hour after the Sabbath ends until midnight.
Racheli Ver-Nir - Honey Za'atar Labaneh (strained yogurt)
Pastry chef Racheli Ver-Nir, who won the reality TV show "The Perfect Dessert", opened a new pastry shop bearing her name in Jerusalem. The most special dessert there is a personal dessert containing fresh honey za'atar panna cotta, Labaneh (strained yogurt) cream, praline made of pine nut and fleur de sel (salt flower), butter almond crust, caramel crust and pearl and almond glaze.
Price: NIS 48
Address: 103 Jaffa St., Jerusalem
Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday 9:00-16:00, Friday 9:00-13:30
Central Israel
Café Ziona - Bread Pudding
At Café Ziona, they came up with a rare recipe for bread pudding (a baked version of French toast). The dessert is made of brioche cooked together with vanilla pudding and Amarena cherries. Served with brulé ice cream and berry sauce.
Price: NIS 44
Address: Weizman 18, Ness Ziona
Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday 8:00-0:00, Friday 8:00-16:00, Saturday 12:00-00:00
Munier Patisserie - Strawberry Croissant
After specializing for several years in Michelin-starred restaurants in Europe, chef Maurice Munier brought his twist to the French pastry. His croissant is made of thin flattened yeast dough filled with Chantilly cream - whipped cream with vanilla, topped with fresh and reddish strawberries.
Price: NIS 32
Address: Yosef Sapir 7, Rishon LeZion
Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday 8:00-16:00, Friday 8:00-14:00
Rotch - Oreo Cheesecake
Here you will find a cake that is hard to resist: a baked and rich cheesecake with Oreo cookie pieces on a crispy dough, vanilla cream, and caramel toffee. The combination of textures is a "celebration" for the mouth.
Price: NIS 52
Address: 64 Rothschild St., Rishon LeZion
Opening hours: Sunday-Wednesday, Saturday 10:00-2:00, Thursday 10:00-3:00, Friday 9:00-3:00
HaSharon region
Haupt - God's puff
This cream puff is considered the signature dessert of the place. It is made of Choux pastry baked together with vanilla butter crumble dough and inside it is caramel cream, crème pâtissier and mascarpone cream. On top, there are strawberries and berries with touches of powdered sugar.
Price: NIS 29
Address: 9 HaLohamim St., Even Yehuda
Opening hours: Sunday-Monday 7:00-19:00, Tuesday-Thursday 7:00-20:00, Friday 7:00-15:00
Vicky's Bake Shop - Cocoa Cruffin
Pastry chef and chocolatier Vicky Borstein opened up a pastry and coffee trail in Moshav Nordia, where she sells pastries that she invented. One of her tastiest pastries is a cocoa cruffin - a pastry wrapped in cocoa with cocoa crumble, filled with dark chocolate fudge full of dark and milk chocolate ganache.
Price: NIS 30
Address: Noga parking lot, Nordia
Opening hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00-12:00, Friday 9:00-12:00
North
Liberman Foodtruck – You Look Familiar
"You Look Familiar" is the name of a yeast pastry filled with soft and sweet cheeses, served with crème pâtissier and seasonal berries. The name of the dessert is taken from the song of the songstress Din Din Aviv, and it pays homage to the cheese pastry that was sold in Nahariya's old bakeries back when it was founded. It is certainly "a taste of the past".
Price: NIS 28
Address: 2 Ha'Irit St., Nahariya
Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday 7:30-16:00, Friday-Saturday 9:00-16:00
Mattrello - Dulce Triangle
In the café at Kibbutz Ein Zivan in the Golan Heights, hides a pastry called "Dulce Triangle" - a crispy croissant dough filled with crème pâtissier dulce (blond with caramelized white chocolate). The owner of the café, Adi Peretz, was looking to produce a pastry in a new shape that has never been seen yet, and this is how the triangle pastry with the unique cream was born.
Price: NIS 20
Address: Ein Zivan
Opening hours: Monday-Saturday, 8:00-13:00
Truffles - Lizette cake
This cake is called Lizette because the phrase that the chef said as soon as he finished making it for the first time was – in Hebrew "Li Zeh Ta'eem" (It's delicious to me). The base of the cake is made of a soft hazelnut biscuit, coated with milk chocolate and almonds crust, with praline cream and fine Belgian chocolate mousse, which is sprayed with a technique that creates a golden suede look. Bonus: the cake is gluten-free. Price: NIS 38
Address: Moshav Manot
Opening hours: Sunday-Wednesday 8:00-22:00, Thursday 7:00-23:00, Friday 7:00-17:00, Saturday 19:00-23:00
Maklot Vanille (Vanilla sticks) - Arabica tartlet
Arabica is a cake made of coffee and sesame, which consists of several elements that make it amazing: crispy dough, coffee bean praline, coffee bean caramel, baked coffee bean base, coffee bean pâtissier, coffee bean Chantilly and caramelized mousse. The coffee mixture is roasted in a roasting machine on site, from which the different and special ingredients of the cake are prepared.
Price: NIS 42
Address: 9 Yehoshua Hankin, Afula
Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday 6:00-23:00, Friday 6:00-14:00
Bikta - Muhallebi rhombus
Bikta is a new café, located inside a historic building where the bakery of Kibbutz Dan used to be. With the opening of the café, the owners chose to give the familiar Muhallebi a different and new look and to serve it in a rhombus shape. The ingredients of the dessert: butter croissant, handmade Muhallebi, strawberries, blueberries, and berry sauce.
Price: NIS 27
Address: Kibbutz Dan, Upper Galilee (at the first square of the kibbutz turn right and drive straight until you see the wooden building).
Lehem Shahar - Apple strudel
At the Lehem Shahar boutique bakery, they prepare a classic Viennese apple strudel, which is sold only on Thursdays and Fridays. The strudel is made of crispy puff pastry with a rich filling of apple cream with maple, raisins and cinnamon.
Price: NIS 42
Address: 18 Derech Ha'Sadeh, Pardes Hanna-Karkur
Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday 6:30-20:00, Friday 7:00-14:00
Leaven patisserie boulangerie - cornflakes and milk croissant
Leaven's chef is addicted to cornflakes with milk from a young age. He makes his childhood love accessible to adults with a pastry - a cruffin (a combination of a croissant and a muffin) made of puff pastry and filled with milk cream soaked with caramelized cornflakes with vanilla honey inside a crispy dough.
Price: NIS 25
Address: 33 HaMoshav, Pardes Hanna-Karkur
Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday 7:30-20:00, Friday 7:30-14:00
South
Oryosss pastry house - the mushroom
In the display cabinet of pastry chef Or Yosef, there is a colorful and tempting offer, but our eyes were especially caught by an unusual dessert in the shape of a mushroom. It is made of vanilla mousse with nougat and salted caramel, red glaze, crispy dough, and a disc of milk chocolate. The pastry chef learned how to make the mushroom from the famous chef Amaury Guichon (star of the series "School of Chocolate" broadcasted on Netflix).
Price: NIS 45
Address: Erez 1, Kibbutz Erez
Opening hours: Monday-Saturday 9:00-14:00
Maluach Matok Crêperie - pistachio crêpe brûlée
The pistachio craze has not subsided: this crêpe comes in the shape of a cone, inspired by the crepes served in Japan. The crepe is made of almond crumble, and inside is pistachio paste with pistachios roasted on site, it also has caramel, crème brûlée, and real vanilla sticks. All this is accompanied by a scoop of pistachio ice cream, and it is served on a plate with roasted almonds.
Price: NIS 52
Address: 14 Kakal St., Beer Sheva, Old City
Opening hours: Sunday-Wednesday 15:00–23:00, Thursday 15:00–23:30, Saturday 20:30–23:30
Alimi patisserie - Ferrero Rocher Croissant
Alimi is a chef patisserie located in Eilat run by pastry chef Avi Alimi, director of the pastry course at Ben Gurion University in Eilat. Alimi developed a recipe for a huge Ferrero Rocher flavored croissant (300 grams), which is filled with creamy pâtissier cream and Ferrero Rocher spread, coated with gold powder, which gives it a royal appearance.
Price: NIS 30
Address: 5 HaOrgim, Eilat
Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday 8:00-18:00, Friday 8:00-16:00
Yotvata Inn - Chocombo
Chocombo, exactly as it sounds – it is a hot and indulging drink that consists of Crembo (chocolate teacake), and on which is poured a shot of espresso or hot chocolate with foamed milk. On top, there is whipped cream and inside a chocolate-flavored baked dough stick.
Price: NIS 24
Address: Yotvata Park
Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday 7:00-20:00, Friday 7:00-16:00, Saturday 8:00-20:00
