• Courtesy of Mirabelles
• Honeybee cake at Mirabelles

Mirabelles Café — Homemade pastries, cookies, cakes and pies, as well as daily breakfast and lunch specials, distinguish this bakery and café. The croissants are truly French style; the flourless chocolate cakes, to die for.

Other Finalists (Inside Chittenden County)

• Matryoshka's Bakery
• Monarch & the Milkweed
• Sweet Babu
• Sweet Simone's

• Courtesy of Eastman's Bakery
• Chocolate pudding parfait cupcakes at Eastman's Bakery

Eastman's Bakery — Customers follow the bakery on social media for news of its cupcake flavor of the week — will it be vanilla chai or strawberry tiramisu?! Other sweet treats here include cinnamon rolls, cake pops and candy-colored macarons.

Other Finalists (Outside Chittenden County)

• Birchgrove Baking
• Bohemian Bakery
• Evelyne's on Center
• Red House Sweets