This might seem a bit silly.......but was just wondering because I have a sweet tooth.

My husband and I went to a tapas restaurant here in Dallas named Cafe Madrid. I got to thinking on the way home that wouldn't it be wonderful if there were tapas-type restaurants in Spain that served only desserts!!

Does anyone know if there are any such places in Spain - specifically Andalucia area?

chanke
I think that you'll find dessert tapas in Andalucia do not exist.

Certainly there are small deserts but most of the desserts in that area quite often are packaged sweets. Most of this is in a cold machine for ice cream treats. The flans are bought versions and they'll let you take home the dish.

So, look forward great tapas but forget your sweet tooth.

Blackduff

chanke,
If you ever find yourself in Barcelona, there's the "desserts" only very avant guard restaurant, the Espai Sucre (means "Sugar Space" in catalán), which has gotten oodles of press in intl gourmet /travel magazines. It offers a 5 course tasting menu and also gives cooking classes.
www.espaisucre.com

In Andalucía, as blackduff says, there is no such beast, that I know of, anyway. The Andalusian tapas bars don't usually offer anything in the line of desserts, at least in my personal experience. I can't remember ever ordering dessert in a tapas bar, even in the more "gourmet" ones in Seville like Taberna La Coloniales, Yerba, Bar La Estrella, Modesto.
These are all great places, but take dessert, pastries or ice cream at Campana, a local institution, on pedestiran Calle Sierpes in Seville.
www.confiterialacampana.com

I am sure there are places dedicated only to desserts, at least in Malaga there is one that I know, in calle Cerezuela, at the back of El Corte Ingles (sorry, I cannot recall the name); as well as many cafeteria (not restaurants) with pastry/cake departments with many varieties of small chocolate and/or fruit desserts. You can ask for a coffee and choose several on a plate (not like starbucks with big pieces of cake). It is nothing unusual. I recommend in Malaga Lepanto or Anglada, in the very center.

Many bakeries have one or two sit-down tables where you can order pastries or cake with and coffee (or chocolate).

In Andalucia there are Heladerias (ice cream parlors like in the USA of old). In el Puerto de Santa Maria there's one on c/Bajamar not too far from the Renfe station; and there's a retro Cafeteria named 'All Night Diner' in the center of town that sells some delicious cakes (by the slice). It's a 'Biker' hangout, by the way (Motorcycles).

You can find the same type establishments in Malaga, in Cadiz, and in Mazagon (Huelva)

Chanke- I am from Dallas and have not been to Café Madrid in years, though I hear that the menu has gotten more creative over time.

Josele is referring to Artepostre which is quite the little wunda-nook in my opinion. I have eaten my fair share of chocolate there and loved every mouthful.

Perhaps you are looking for desserts like what Maribel said (Espai Sucre is amazing), but in Spain you can go to a bakery and get chocolate croissants, cookies, litttle cakes, cream filled deliciousness. . . I am a huge fan of chocolate Napoletanas, and with coffee I like to eat Palmeras. In Málaga you should also not miss Casa Aranda for chocolate con churros. It is right next to the Ataranzanas marketplace and is always jumping.

chanke,
Sorry, I realize now you weren't looking for tapas bars that feature desserts but instead dessert bars, or places where you can have a dessert feast.
As NED, laclaire and josele say, look for signs saying "confitería" and "pastelería" (sweets and pastry shops which often sell ice cream and sorbets) and "heladería" (ice cream shops). These aren't tapas bars but as everyone says, they will often have a few tables where you can enjoy their pastries with coffee.

In Sevilla, also look for the venerable Ochoa on pedestrian Sierpes, They were closed for a while but have reopened their famous Sierpes branch. And the chain of pastry/coffee shops called Hornos San Buenaventura, all over the city. It's a cafetería, coffee shop, with deli section and tables where you can have pastries and coffee.
I too love palmeras (elephant ears) and ensaimadas (the famed Mallorcan pastry), plus "mil hojas ", my very favorite. These you can find at pastelerías, confiterías.
And on Sundays, nothing like late morning churros con chocolate, I agree, laclaire.

If you're a chocoholic,
in Madrid (Bcn and Valencia too) there's the Cacao Sampaka, which is a very trendy, hip shop (started by the pastry chef brother of super star chef Ferran Adria), with adjoining bar/restaurant serving chocolate dishes.
www.cacaosampaka.com

Not new and trendy, but historic as can be and well loved are two of Madrid's best old time pastry shops, El Riojano on Calle Mayor on the right hand side on the way from the Puerta del Sol to the Teatro Real ( great place to pick up a King Cake at Xmas time) and Niza on Argensola (near Cacao Sampaka) for their famous "rusos".

And for artisanal ice cream fans, in Madrid (Bcn and coming to Valencia too), there's the ultra chic, high concept, trendy design ice cream "bars", which also sell pastries, crepes, even sandwiches, the "Heladerías Giangrossi". It's a chain started in Argentina that has become very popular lately in Madrid.
www.giangrossi.es
They'll probably open a branch in Sevilla in the not too distant future.

OK, I'll post my favourite stuff: the Borrachuelos de miel at Anglada, right in front of Casa Aranda (I have been there for churros since I was a child, they are the best).

Doesn't Stephen Pyles have a dessert tapas concept on the menu at his new restaurant?

Thanks everyone. I will check out the bakeries and pastry shops while there. We will be in Andalucia area.

Missypie: I will check out Stephen Pyles' restaurant. I was disappointed when Star Canyon closed.