Dessert Article Archive

Cold Stone Sweetens the Season

It's beginning to look a lot like the holidays at Cold Stone Creamery. Our seasonal flavors are back and will be in stores November 27 through January 5. Dark Chocolate Peppermint Ice Cream and Gingerbread Ice Cream, Made Fresh in Every Store, will kick off customers’ holiday season with good cheer and delicious treats. "We […]

CREAM Celebrates the Season with Holiday Flavors

CREAM, a San Francisco-based dessert franchise that specializes in high-quality ice cream sandwiches and other confections, will ring in the holiday season with the release of its Eggnog ice cream and peppermint sprinkles topping on November 24. Joining the previous releases of Pumpkin and Rum Raisin ice cream flavors, CREAM customers can mix and choose […]

Fresh Brothers Adds Sweet Knots to Menu

Fresh Brothers, a pioneer in creative fast-casual dining has just announced a decadent addition to their forward thinking menu: Sweet Knots. The bite-sized dessert is rolled in cinnamon sugar, served warm, and drizzled in icing. They are now available in all 13 locations throughout Southern California. Sweet Knots’ permanent addition to the menu comes after […]

Baskin-Robbins Gets Spooky with Piñata Pumpkin Patch Cake

Baskin-Robbins, the world’s largest chain of ice cream specialty shops, announced a lineup of wickedly good frozen treats, including its new Piñata Pumpkin Patch Cake, to celebrate Halloween all month long. Perfect for candy lovers, this new ice cream cake is dressed up like a jack-o-lantern and features a candy-filled center. When guests cut into […]

CREAM Serves LTO Pumpkin and Rum Raisin for Fall

As weather cools across the country, consumers often crave alternative and seasonal flavors. Answering the call to the desire is CREAM, a San Francisco–based dessert franchise that specializes in high-quality ice cream sandwiches and other confections. For a limited time starting on October 2, CREAM will be featuring Pumpkin and Rum Raisin ice cream flavors […]

Bruster’s Celebrates Autumn with Three LTO Sweets

Spurred by record sales growth, Bruster’s Real Ice Cream has introduced two limited-time flavors and a seasonal menu item to complement year-round favorites, a strategy that has helped drive the chain’s best performance since it was founded more than 25 years ago. Just in time for fall, September’s premium, hand-made offerings include: ·      Caramel Apple […]

Pumpkin Pie Concrete Rolls Back into Freddy’s This Fall

Fast-casual restaurant franchise, Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, rolled out its all-new limited-time offer, the A.1. Chop House Burger. Additionally, the Pumpkin Pie Concrete makes its seasonal return to the menu. Both items are available at participating locations. The A.1. Chop House Burger is available through November 4 and the Pumpkin Pie Concrete is available […]

Domino’s Sweetens the Menu with Marbled Cookie Brownie

Domino's Pizza, the recognized world leader in pizza delivery, loves to gather everyone together over a meal. Now, Domino’s is bringing chocolate-chunk cookie lovers and fudge brownie fans together. The new Marbled Cookie Brownie is an irresistibly warm and gooey dessert they can both enjoy and is available at Domino’s locations around the country. Marbled […]

DQ Launches Biggest TV Marketing Push Yet For New Menu

In June, the Dairy Queen system launched its biggest menu rollout in brand history with the new DQ Bakes! line of Hot Desserts à la Mode, Artisan-style Sandwiches, and Snack Melts. To match the occasion, the 75-year-old brand is now debuting its most extensive television advertising campaign yet to introduce customers to the nine new […]

Menchie’s Offers PAN-Inspired Flavors Through September

Menchie’s, North America’s fastest growing self-serve frozen yogurt franchise, is spreading magic and pixie dust in their partnership with Warner Bros. Pictures’ and RatPac-Dune Entertainment’s new live-action movie PAN, which opens in theatres October 9. Throughout the month of September, Menchie’s will offer guests PAN-inspired flavors. PAN’s Pixie Dusted Sugar Cookie will be a month-long offering of a white sugar cookie […]

Orange Leaf Partners With No Kid Hungry For Third Year

For the third consecutive year, Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt is partnering with the national nonprofit No Kid Hungry to help raise awareness and money to end childhood hunger in America. Orange Leaf’s goal is to provide one million meals to hungry kids in America during September, which is National Hunger Awareness month. Every $1 donation equals 10 meals […]

Nestle Toll House Café Launches Cookies For Kids’ Cancer Fundraiser

Nestlé Toll House Café by Chip dedicates a month every year to give back to its favorite, and bravest, customers in collaboration with the Cookies for Kids’ Cancer organization. The partnership, which helps fund essential research grants for five of the nation’s leading pediatric cancer centers, kicks off its annual campaign on Tuesday, September 1 – […]

SBUX Offers New Frappuccinos For Summer’s End

Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer, is one week later this year. To celebrate the bonus week of summer, Starbucks is offering two new Frappuccino flavors—Blackberries & Crème and Strawberry Shortcake. The new Frappuccino blended beverages will be available in participating Starbucks stores beginning today August 27 through Septemebr 7 in the U.S. and Canada.   The […]

Marco’s Sweetens the Menu Through New Test Kitchen

Marco’s Pizza may have christened its new test kitchen this summer with the conception and market introduction of two well-received brownie flavors, but executives of the 640-unit franchise are also using the culinary lab to develop and perfect assets of a much grander nature—its people. So far, the test kitchen—part of a new 3,500-square-foot corporate […]

Sloan’s Brightens Los Angeles with First Area Store

The Valley is in for a major cool-down when Sloan’s Ice Cream opens this fall in Topanga. Residents and visitors can take in the irresistible sights, smells, tastes, and sounds of Sloan’s Ice Cream, a Willy Wonka-esque paradise. An iconic sweet retreat widely known for its colorful presence throughout South Florida, Sloan’s is making its […]

Burger 21 Adds New Shake and Burger on August 21

Burger 21, an award-winning, “beyond the better burger” fast-casual franchise, is continuing to raise the bar for the better burger industry with the rollout of its Loaded Spud Burger and White Chocolate Raspberry Shake, now available for a limited time. As part of its unique culture, Burger 21 offers a different chef-inspired burger and handcrafted shake on the […]

Taco John’s Hits Gold With New Oreo Churro

Prepared fresh when ordered in the restaurant then covered in cinnamon and sugar, the original Churro has long been a popular dessert at Taco John’s. Now the Mexican quick-service restaurant is ramping up sales by offering the Oreo Churro—a snacking mash-up with J&J Snack Food Corp. and Mondelez International. “The Oreo is one of the […]

Culver’s Supports Farmers With “Scoop of Thanks” Day

Culver's restaurants across the country raised more than $40,000 in the first ever Scoop of Thanks Day on August 11. For a $1 donation to FFA or other agricultural groups, guests received a scoop of fresh frozen custard. "Our guests really stepped up to give thanks for the abundant food American farm families provide," says […]

Johnny Rockets Launches LTO International Menu

Johnny Rockets restaurant chain announced today a new limited-time menu. In the last six months, the brand has interacted with consumers asking them to help build its limited-time offerings. Johnny Rockets’ culinary team gave the public multiple sandwich options, asking them to evaluate each from a number of perspectives including overall concept, ingredients, suggested price […]

Baskin-Robbins Serves up Oreo Malt Madness

Baskin-Robbins, the world’s largest chain of ice cream specialty shops, is keeping guests cool this summer with its August Flavor of the Month, Oreo Malt Madness. This new flavor is a delicious combination of traditional chocolate malt-flavored ice cream, loaded with Oreo cookie pieces and a chocolate sea salt cookie–flavored ribbon. Oreo Malt Madness can […]

Hungry Howie’s Debuts Chocolate Fudge Brownie

Hungry Howie’s Pizza, the originator of the flavored crust pizza, reveals its newest and sweetest menu item, the Chocolate Fudge Brownie. This delectable dessert item will come with a choice of two toppings: salted caramel or chocolate drizzle. This dessert creation comes after nine months of testing and research to find out what sweet treat […]

DQ Celebrates End of Summer with Rolo Minis Blizzard

The month of August typically triggers thoughts of back to school and thus the end of summer, but this year, the Dairy Queen system, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is trying to change that. The brand is encouraging fans to hold on to the golden days and nights of summer as long as possible with the […]

Summer Gets Fruity in Two New Menchie’s Flavors

Menchie’s introduced two new flavors for the month of August: Wild Cherry Sorbet with a Splash of Lime and Bold Cranberry Raspberry Blast. Menchie’s is adding a refreshing twist to classic fruit flavors for an even brighter experience this summer. Filled with the taste of sweet cherries, infused with a zesty kick of lime, and […]

Baskin-Robbins Seeks Southern California Franchisees

Baskin-Robbins, the world’s largest chain of ice cream specialty shops, announced that it is seeking Los Angeles entrepreneurs to develop new and existing ice cream shops in Southern California. Specifically, Baskin-Robbins is seeking candidates who are looking for a sweet opportunity in Glendora, Long Beach, Oceanside, and Pico Rivera, as well as San Diego. “We’re […]

Rita’s Italian Ice Enters C-Store Channel

Today, Rita’s Italian Ice, the world’s largest Italian Ice concept with more than 600 stores, officially announced it will enter the convenience and gas channel nationwide with two area development agreements. The agreements were awarded to M&M ARC Inc. for the development of the West and to Ice & Go LLC for the development of the […]

Orange Leaf Debuts New Toasted Marshmallow Flavor

Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt inspires thoughts of sharing stories around campfires while building s’mores with the introduction of Toasted Marshmallow frozen yogurt to its wide assortment of flavors. This new flavor will be featured in the more than 300 Orange Leaf locations from July 27 to August 30. By swirling the new Toasted Marshmallow froyo with Chocolate […]