North Texas temperatures soaring into the 90s are driving many to seek relief with a cool treat, even before summer's official arrival June 20. To help, here's a roundup of 10 spots in the greater Keller area where locals can find the perfect frozen indulgence to combat the heat.
1. Andy’s Frozen Custard
The shop offers handcrafted frozen custard treats. The company has grown into the nation’s largest frozen custard-only business, with more than 2,000 employees and 155 company-owned and franchised stores across 15 states.
2. Braum’s
Beyond breakfast, lunch and dinner items that include breakfast burritos, cheeseburgers and salads, Braum's has ice cream options such as sundaes, banana splits, soft frozen yogurt and shakes.
3. Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers
The fast-casual restaurant serves cooked-to-order steakburgers, all-beef hot dogs and shoestring fries. Frozen custard is freshly churned throughout the day in each restaurant.
4. Jeremiah’s Italian Ice
The franchise offers dozens of flavors for its housemade Italian ice, ice cream and the brand’s “jelati”—a combination of the two.
5. Main Street Snowballs
The shaved ice business has been a Keller mainstay for 40 years and includes a variety of flavors.
6. Micholandia
The store offers several cold treats including 75 flavors of popsicles, 40 flavors of ice cream and fruit water flavors made with fresh fruit.
7. Smallcakes Cupcakery & Creamery
Mainly known for its cupcakes—which were featured on the TV show "Cupcake Wars"—the sweet shop also features unique ice cream flavors such as birthday cake, chocoholic and blue monster cookie.
8. Sugar Llamas
The snack bar is a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based treat shop chain featuring custom-blended coffee, ice cream and a wide variety of mini doughnuts made fresh to order and served hot.
9. sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt
sweetFrog offers a variety of premium frozen yogurts, with flavors such as salted caramel popcorn, my little cupcake, blue cotton candy and mountain blackberry. Other options include diet-sensitive choices like no sugar added, low fat, nonfat and dairy free. Once customers select their yogurt flavor, they can finish it off with toppings that include fresh fruit, nuts and candy pieces.
10. Tiki Hut of Keller
In business for more than 20 years, the Keller staple features Hawaiian shaved ice that is thinly shaved to create a more powdery and snow-like texture.
