Yogyakarta has a large number of cafes, bakeries and sweet shops. We only got a chance to visit a few of them, but we’ve got the run down on the ones we did. In this article, Kyle wrote about Jasmine Cakery and Briana wrote about Almond Bakery and Il Tempo Gelato (we figured we might as well combine the sweets here too). Get your Yogyakarta sweets!
Jasmine Cakery
The Jasmine Cakery is a nice little bakery and cake shop in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The store front is rather unimposing and I (Kyle) came across it while coming back from grabbing a few items from a nearby convenience store.
Although the store itself is small, they carry a decent assortment of cakes, muffins, rolls, and breads. Most are priced at between 4000 and 10000 IDR (~$0.30 – $0.80) with a few of the cakes running up towards the 50,000 IDR range (~$3.70). As well, you can even order a custom cake, though it will cost a little bit more and you’ll have to wait of course.
I grabbed us three different items: a strawberry beetle; a orange marmalade pastry; and a chocolate roast pastry. All were pretty good, but I think we both agreed that the strawberry beetle was the best. The chocolate roast pastry had the ability to fill the entire room with its aroma when we brought it home.
There were a few other specialty pastries in the shapes of fish and turtles.
Find it:
Jl. Kyai Mojo No.89, Tegalrejo, Kota Yogyakarta, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta.
They’re open every day from 8am – 9pm.
You can also order delivery online or view all their products at Jasmine Cakery.
Almond Bakery Cake and Ice Cream
I initially located this bakery when I was examining the areas surrounding our Airbnb on GoogleMaps. We ended up passing it a few times before we ever made it inside- either because we were busy trying to get somewhere, had our hands full with groceries, etc.
One day Kyle declared he was in the mood for ice cream and we determined this was the closest place we might be able to find it. We made our way over (it was just over 1km away) and were delighted with what we found. There were all kinds of little cakes, pastries, rolls, sweet breads (and regular breads), and cakes.
Quite the Selection
Because the items were so cheap, we could go wild! There were many small cakes and rolls for about $0.20 each. Some were displayed in a refrigerated area and others were under little glass domes.
Fortunately, they did end up having pre-packaged ice cream in a freezer in the back as well. I chose vanilla chocolate chip while Kyle chose coconut (of course).
Oh So Cheap
We pretty much went around choosing little things which caught our fancy and ended up paying $2.31. You will also find some nicely decorated and quite reasonably priced cakes. I often like to pretend which cake I would get at these types of places if it were my birthday.
I saw a group of young girls oohing some of them as well. After purchasing all of our baked goods and ice cream, we made our way to leave and I decided I wanted a bag of rolls for bread (for our peanut butter back home). This cost us 3000 Indonesian Rupiah ($0.22).
We enjoyed our ice cream on our walk back. Kyle also decided to break into the baked goods before we even made it back. Of course our walk was extended by various people saying hello. People are very friendly in Yogyakarta. They smiled and waved at us, asked us where we got our treats, where we were from etc.
Worth Multiple Visits
We made a stop to Almond Bakery on one other occasion. It was near the end of our stay and we did not have too much food left (and no sweets), so we though a trip to the bakery would do us some good. This time Kyle had his eyes set on a brownie package.
To me, this did not seem to make the most sense as it cost a little more than many of the other items (I thought we might be able to get more value taking another route) but it did look quite good and would make it easier so we purchased the brownies for 43,380 ($3.21). The brownies had nuts inside and were quite good. It ended up working out perfect for us.
Find it:
If you google this place (along with the name of the city), you will also find an Almond Bakery Cake and Restaurant. I don’t think this is where we went because there was not a restaurant area there, but the other is likely owned by the same people.
The address for Almond Bakery Cake and Ice Cream is Jl. Mayjen Sutoyo No.91, Mantrijeron, Kota Yogyakarta, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Open everyday from 5:30am-10pm (barring holidays). (If you type this into Googlemaps you will find the place we visited).
Il Tempo del Gelato
One night after I was nearly keeling over from being so full from dinner, Kyle decided he wanted some ice cream to finish off the meal. I thought maybe not, but it doesn’t usually take too much to convince me with ice cream, especially since we hadn’t gotten too much of it in the previous couple months. We knew there was a place easily within walking distance of the restaurant so decided to head there.
Il Tempo del Gelato was a little busy that evening. I suspect it is busy often.
There were many different flavors such as nutella, pistachio, hazelnut, good time chocolate, matcha tea, crocounte, cinnamon, and spicy chocolate. Most of them looked appealing (and if not, interesting and probably appealing to someone).
It was a difficult choice, but I ended up with pralines, while Kyle chose chocolate chip coconut.
This was another treat we enjoyed on our sort-of-long walk back to our place. While we occasionally got a little harassed because we were tourists, we generally felt pretty safe walking around in Yogya, even at night.
The cost was 25,000 IDR per cone so it cost us 50,000 Indoneian Rupiah ($3.66) for two cones. IT was a little bit more than we would have preferred to pay, but was not too bad for a gelato outing.
Find it:
Jl. Prawirotaman No. 43, Brontokusuman, Mergangsan, Kota Yogyakarta, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Hours: 11am-9pm. Here is their Facebook page.
This is just a small selection of the treat places which are available in Yogyakarta but it was all we ended up trying/had time to try during our time in the city proper.
~B&K~