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Check out the latest dessert and coffee shop business updates for the far Northwest Austin area, including a new boba tea shop, Austin’s first Canadian coffee chain and a cookie shop franchise closure.
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Frosty Fox
The chain bubble tea shop sells a variety of milk teas, boba teas, mocktails, slushies, gelatos and egg puffles, or street-style waffles.
The bakery offers a variety of pastries such as custom cakes, cupcakes, homemade cookies and cookie kits, cinnamon rolls, scones, banana bread and more. Owner Pamela Wooten operated the business out of her home for over a decade as a "cottage bakery" prior to opening the storefront.
The Canadian franchise opened its first Austin-area location on the Austin-Round Rock border and serves coffee drinks, tea, donuts, breakfast sandwiches, wraps and other pastry items.
The drive-thru and walk-up coffee shop opened a new location on the Austin-Round Rock border, and serves classic and protein coffee, lemonade, tea, energy drinks, shakes, smoothies and pastry items.
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.
Enchanted Forest Ice Cream
The locally-owned treat shop is closed for the winter season and will reopen in the spring, per a notice on the business's door. A representative for the business did not respond to inquiries about when the shop plans to reopen. The shop serves a variety of Hershey's ice cream flavors, bakery items and coffee drinks.
Dirty Dough Cookies
The chain cookie shop sold a variety of “super-stuffed cookie bombs” featuring various flavors and mix-ins baked into the dough. A representative for the business did not respond to inquiries about the business's closure. There are still several Dirty Dough locations around the Austin metroplex, including south central Austin, Bee Cave and Kyle.
