Sweet Treat: Where to Find the Most Decadent Desserts on Tybee
Defined by copious amounts of candy and leading into the holiday season, October just so happens to be National Dessert Month. It’s a special time to indulge that sweet tooth and enjoy all of your favorite little treats. From candies and cakes to pies and puddings, National Dessert Month provides a wondrous opportunity to add some extra sweetness into your life. Here on Tybee, you’ll discover a bevy of delicious desserts to sink your teeth into. This is our guide to the most satisfying sweets on the island.
The Sugar Shack
For more than 50 years, The Sugar Shack has been satisfying sweet tooths with their wide range of ice cream flavors and colorful candy shop. Locals and tourists alike flock to The Sugar Shack for delightful desserts that uplift the spirit. Children and children-at-heart adore the shack’s candy shop, which features an incredible assortment of more than 350 flavors of candies, treats and chocolates. They even offer a range of baked goods including favorites like their chocolate chunk muffin, iced lemon cake and chocolate chip cookies.
Seaside Sweets
As the name suggests, Seaside Sweets is an absolute goldmine when it comes to dessert. Boasting irresistible ice cream and gelato — which is made from scratch using fresh, authentic ingredients — as well as a range of sweet treats including fudge, pralines, caramel apples, salt water taffy and more, Seaside Sweets is a premier dessert destination. If you’ve yet to try their sweet selection, National Dessert Month provides the perfect reason to do so.
Seaweed’s Sno-Balls & Ice Cream
Seaweed’s is one of the island’s most inventive ice cream shops offering a number of unique creations, like their Ice Cream Nachos and Phone Home Sundae. Seaweed’s is always doing something different, so on any given day, you’ll find something sweet and special. Currently, they have several spine-chilling sweets that are perfect for spooky season in the South. Stop by soon to try their Halloween-themed ice creams and snow-cones.
Pier 16
Known primarily for their seafood, Pier 16 also boasts a robust dessert menu with decadent dishes that will delight the palate and satisfy sweet cravings. Here you’ll find satiating sweets that are as affordable as they are appetizing. Offerings include their Peanut Butter Explosion Cake, a Chocolate Toffee Mousse Cake with Kahlua, Extraordinary Key Lime Pie and Strawberry Cheesecake. Yum!
Beau & Arrow’s Frozen Yogurt
Beau & Arrow’s is the only frozen yogurt shop on Tybee. So if you prefer the lighter froyo to traditional ice cream, this is the place for you. Choose from their wide range of flavors and tantalizing toppings for a custom custard creation all your own.
Savannah Praline Co.
Pralines are a Southern staple, lauded for their harmonious combination of sugar and pecans. And at Savannah Praline Co., you’ll find grade-A pralines made with locally-sourced ingredients — like real sugar milled right in Savannah and pecans that are grown, harvested and processed in South Georgia. All of their treats are handmade, packaged and shipped one batch at a time from their Tybee shop, resulting in perfect pralines that are made with love.
