Sweet Release Cakes and Treats

They have such delicious vegan and also vegan/gf treats and we would recommend in a heartbeat. The woman/owners there were super friendly and knowledgeable. Yummy!

All the baked goods are vegan, you can get cupcakes, muffins, and tiramisu. Lots of vegan ice cream and milkshake flavours. The Mount Cookie is truly a dessert to be reckoned with - a volcano-shaped cookie filled with four scoops of ice cream, topped with whipped cream and caramel sauce.

Crazy cakes and milkshakes! Can't believe it was vegan, super nice. Thank you :))

What an amazing little spot! They have such an awesome range of vegan sweet (and savoury but I didn't try these) treats. I recommend the brownie and the doughnut muffins wholeheartedly. They even make a variety of vegan milkshakes! Lovely staff also.

These guys are working hard and doing it with a smile.
Perfect selection, I'd say based on popularity, and not too many options which I personally like as you know there's more chance it's fresh (and it's easier to choose!)
As far as I'm aware everything has been adjusted to be totally plant based.
Only criticism is the savoury pies are very 'bite size', since going vegan I eat much more so would rather pay an extra $1-2 to fill the gap (please make them bigger and just charge more!) ha
I want to see this place grow, so we'll be back :)

We had amazing vegan pies with delicious potato salad and yummy vegan blueberry cake for the dessert. Place is cute and staff nice and friendly. Must go if in Wellington.

What a lovely little find in Willis Street. Focused mainly on cakes and treats this cafe does have a selection of toasties and dishes for lunch too, using plant based foods.

What is good is that there is no other cafe in this area offering vegan cakes and drinks, so really good to have somewhere handy to go. Do you have to be vegan to eat here? Well I doubt you’d know it by the quality of the cakes - they are DELICIOUS and very decadent. The owner also does a selection of custom made birthday and celebration cakes.

What was lovely was having a vegan chocolate ice ’cream’ and almond milkshake. I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed this type of food. Their donut snickers cake with peanut fondant icing was dreamy and certainly didn’t break the bank.

The owner is trying to convert her menu to totally plant based and to make her 'meat eating' customers feel like they are still eating 'normal' food. She has moved herself onto a plant based diet recently so good on her. Tendency to focus a bit much on soya, I personally like a chance to eat vegan non-soya foods. But that said don't let that stop you eating here it is well worth it.

The cafe itself is small, with a Dr Who theme! It only has one table outside in the courtyard for eating so not really a place to hang out and socialise which is a real shame because it is in a nice quiet area off the main street which would be perfect for meeting up with friends. Vincent’s Art Gallery is next door too if you fancy getting creative.

Sweet Release is a nice little cafe in the Willis St courtyard, across the street from the Capital Markets. Lots of vegan options - pies, nachos, cake, brownies, doughnuts, milkshakes, and more.

It's a small bakery but they have close connections with the Wellington vegan community, so lots of vegan happy stuff =) including brownies, banoffi pie, chilli pies, nachoes, thickshakes.