From fruit teas and ice cream to smoothies and Asian-inspired desserts, check out nine recent sweet treat business updates in the Cedar Park-Far Northwest Austin area.
Now open
Dumont Creamery & Cafe
The India-based ice cream and coffee franchise serves a range of ice cream flavors, including milkshakes and falooda—an ice cream-based dessert made with vermicelli.
The business also serves specialty coffee beverages, bubble tea, slushies, smoothies and lemonade. Pastries including cheese danishes and muffins are also available.
Smoothie King
The smoothie chain offers a wide variety of blended beverages, with the option to add nutritional enhancers like protein and collagen.
SereniTea Cup
The tea shop serves 57 types of whole leaf premium teas as well as tea flights. Teas are available for purchase in bulk alongside tea accessories, including teapots, kettles and infusers. Popular teas include the Blue Harmony oolong tea with butterfly pea flowers, a green tea with dried raspberry leaves called Raspberry Radiance, the Lavender Mint Garden tea, and Hibiscus Harvest tea.
The business also offers afternoon classes focused on the foundation and health benefits of tea, tea brewing essentials and more.
Whipped Bakery & Cafe
The bakery opened a second location in far Northwest Austin, offering custom cakes, cupcakes, stuffed macarons, cake rolls and other pastry items such as scones, creme brulee pudding and cookies.
Coming soon
Wicked Snow
The South Korean-style dessert shop will specialize in bingsu—a South Korean milk-based dessert made of shaved ice topped with fruit, red beans, syrup and condensed milk—and serve coffee drinks and other desserts.
Cold Stone Creamery
The ice cream chain is known for its variety of ice cream flavors and toppings prepared on a frozen granite countertop. The shop will also serve sorbet, shakes, smoothies and custom ice cream cakes.
HTeaO
The franchised beverage chain will offer a variety of fruit flavored ice teas and refreshers; hot and iced coffee; lemonade; and a "secret menu" of flavored drinks.
What's next
16 Handles
The frozen yogurt chain is set to open a location in Four Points, per a Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filing.
Each shop features a menu with 16 rotating frozen yogurt flavors—including gluten-free, vegan and sugar-free options—and a variety of toppings and sauces.
Cups can also be upgraded to a waffle bowl, and other menu offerings include milkshakes and edible cookie dough.
Relocations
The Fancy Marshmallow Co.
The business announced May 5 it will be moving out of its current space at 115 S. Lakeline Blvd., Ste. 300, Cedar Park due to rent increases, and is actively looking for a new location to move its operations.
The shop serves a variety of marshmallow squares and marshmallow creme, marshmallow-stuffed cookies, iced coffee, and offers event catering.
Owner Tina Ciotti said the last day the business will be open to the public is May 31, however summer camps will continue to run in June and online orders and special orders will continue to be fulfilled throughout the transition.
Dacia is a features reporter for northern markets in the Austin metro. She joined Community Impact in June 2024 shortly after graduating from The University of Texas with a degree in journalism. Dacia previously interned for Austin PBS and Voces Oral History Center. In her free time, she enjoys antique shopping, practicing yoga and trying new restaurants in the city.
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