Velvet Treats is a dessert shop at 84D Riccarton Rd in Riccarton, Christchurch, and it holds a five-star Google rating. Its website, velvettreats.co.nz, carries further details.
A good dessert shop lives or dies on freshness and texture: custards and creams set properly, waffles and pancakes cooked to order, anything with fruit used the day it arrives. On a strip like Riccarton Road, where Asian-style sweets such as bingsu, mille-crepe cake and soufflé pancakes sit alongside classic slices and gelato, it is worth asking what the house actually makes on site rather than picking the widest thing on the menu. Regulars also know dessert spots fill up after the dinner rush, so an afternoon visit often means a free table and dishes straight from the kitchen.
For anyone with a sweet tooth in Riccarton, Velvet Treats sits handily on the main road.