While Sweet Rose Creamery has had a wide variety of summertime flavors, their end of summer specialties include the innovative fig jam swirl with goat cheese and toasted walnut, roasted apricot, and melon sorbet. Be sure to try them while they last as Sweet Rose’s seasonal offerings change monthly!

This elegant dessert was recently introduced to Wolfgang Puck’s modern Chinese restaurant. The end of summer Cherry Blossom with Brooks cherries, pistachio cake, and lychee semifreddo is a true stunner that is fitting of the gorgeous panoramic views of LA that surround it.

Adapted from a classic Italian dessert, Crossroads takes their almond flour cake and bakes it with sliced brown Turkey figs. Served with a quenelle of golden balsamic almond whipped cream, a crispy almond tuile, and fresh figs, this taste of the Mediterranean summer is a perfect way to celebrate the end of the season.

While this rapidly expanding Mexican bakery offers a variety of cakes far beyond chocolate and vanilla, the summertime specialty is the tequila lime. Nothing will have you celebrating summer like tequila-infused layers of moist sponge cake filled with vanilla and lime zest chantilly cream and topped with meringue and roasted coconut.

Acabar’s modern twist on childhood classics is a playful homage to summer. A whimsical plating of macerated strawberry, crunchy milk, chamomile granite, and a house-made strawberry gusher takes cues from iconic lunchtime treats, but adds a healthy dose of grown up sophistication.

Crown Cake, Joan’s on Third’s take on strawberry shortcake, is ethereally light and is perfect for a hot summer day. Packed with fresh strawberries, this summertime staple is likely to revive idyllic childhood memories.

Roy Choi’s seasonally driven concept in Koreatown celebrates fruits and vegetables, an approach that is realized in its summer rhubarb dessert. The often underutilized vegetable is poached in an elderflower-anise hyssop syrup and is served as a unique version of a floating island. [Photo: Audrey Ma]

This gorgeous dish is reflective of the fabric of LA, with seasonal produce and both Mexican and Asian flair. Heirloom melons are paired with milk semifreddo, cucumber-shiso ice cream, and pieces of tres leches cake for a light dessert that is the perfect way to send off summer.