The Doughnut Project in New York City offers a chocolate cream doughnut flavoured with bone marrow; Sweetness Bake Shop in Miami offers a cinnamon-spice doughnut filled with dulce de leche and topped in chocolate frosting and a crispy churro.

Snow Monster in Long Beach offers ice cream creations such as macaron ice cream sandwiches and drinks topped with clouds of cotton candy; Santa Ana's Cauldron Ice Cream specializes in small batches made with liquid nitrogen served in waffle cones.

The Salty Donut offers a buttery 24-hour brioche doughnut dough and serve topping combinations like key lime pie and peach bourbon; L.A. Sweetz offers a coconut cake dipped in dark rum and topped with dulce de leche buttercream.

Brain Freeze Nitrogen Ice Cream Lab in Miami offers a mad scientist challenge to eat 30 scoops of ice cream in 30 minutes; Spot Dessert Bar in New York City serves Asian-inspired plated desserts, including a twist on the classic chocolate lava cake.

An underground doughnut spot called Donut Diva in Astoria, Queens, is frying up outrageous cake doughnut creations and baking unique coffee cake; Eggloo in Manhattan builds an edible work of ice cream art, nestled into a warm, puffy, egg waffle cone.

Hypnotic Donuts in Dallas serves deep-fried treats in the form of huge fritters with developed flavors; Kate Weiser Chocolate offers crazy candy bars and smoky toffee with bacon.