Frozen Desserts

9 frozen dessert shops in Fort Worth that blow up plain old ice cream

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There's no such thing as bad ice cream but sometimes you want more than a regular scoop. Fort Worth has you covered like noplace else in DFW, with a whole host of places putting fun and creative twists on frozen desserts. From over-the-top shakes to crazy ice cream toppings to shaved snow, Fort Worth is the place to be in summer 2025 for offbeat frozen treats.

Here are nine spots to find unique frozen treats around Fort Worth:

Creamistry
Ice cream shop from California with a location in Fort Worth uses liquid nitrogen to freeze ice cream at a higher level. They flash-freeze ice cream at -32 C instead churning. There's no shame in ordering a simple scoop when you have flavors like coffee and matcha green tea, but check out the Party Animal, a stacked shake with frosted animal cookies, animal cookie ice cream, and mini marshmallows. They also have a vegan dairy-free ice cream made with oat milk that's extra creamy.

Curly’s Frozen Custard
Forget the chains: This hometown custard shop in the Cultural District has an old-school dessert vibe with customizable custards, shake-like concretes, and decadent sundaes like the Cowtown Classic with butterscotch, vanilla cake, butter pecan custard, and candied pecans; or the Pulido's Praline Sundae featuring vanilla Custard on top of shortcake, with locally-made Pulido's praline and caramel.

Duck Duck Scoop
Quirky shop serving ice cream and milkshakes puts an adorable rubber duck on every item. They just introduced a slate of new flavors including raspberry chocolate chunk, chocolate peanut butter cup, Superman Swirl (a Midwestern favorite that tastes like bubblegum), and blueberry mascarpone, plus new Italian ices in flavors such as strawberry banana and cucumber watermelon.

Ice Box Creamery
Family-owned creamery in west Fort Worth has ice cream, shaved ice, and sundaes, with lots of toppings including fresh fruit and wafer cookies. One refreshing treat is the limoncello featuring lemon ice cream, lemon bread, lemon sauce, limoncello cake bites, whipped cream, and white chocolate chips. Starting at $7 for a small sundae.

Original Rainbow Cone ice cream cone with stacked slices.Photo courtesy of Original Rainbow Cone

JOY Macarons
Dallas macaron chain with a location at the Shops at Clearfork does a macaron twist on the ice cream sandwich macaron. The cereal milk is fun: a blue-green- macaron with Fruity Pebbles ice cream and a white chocolate shell on one side topped with Fruity Pebbles cereal, for $7.50.

Melt
Local ice cream chain with three Fort Worth locations (plus one in Dallas) does an extra rich ice cream you can order by the scoop or pint, as well as frozen confections such as Peach Cobbler Cheesecake featuring ice cream sandwiched between two brown sugar graham cracker cookies.

The Original Rainbow Cone
Ice cream chain from Chicago known for its distinctive ice cream “slices” made its Texas debut in Hurst in November and has been a hit ever since. Their signature Rainbow Cone comes stacked with five flavors: orange sherbet, pistachio, Palmer House (vanilla with cherries & walnuts), strawberry, and chocolate for $7. They also serve regular scoops, shakes, and sundaes layered with cake and ice cream.

Pop Pop Feducchi’s
Weekend-only Italian ice stand does a gourmet version of Italian ice, which is churned like ice cream, rather than shaved like shaved ice. Their flavors are potent, using real fruit. In addition to Italian ice, they also do a Philadelphia-style ice cream that's lighter than typical ice cream. They constantly rotate in creative new flavors such as Key lime pie, sprinkled with shortbread cookie crumbles, so there's always something new to try.

Vampire Penguin
Dessert chain from California specializes in shaved snow, which is melt-in-your-mouth lighter and fluffier than traditional shaved ice. The chain is Filipino-inspired, which means they offer shaved snow in exotic authentic flavors and options such as the Halo Halo, a taro-flavored snow with sweet beans, jack fruit, ube paste, flan, and condensed milk. The chain just opened a location in Hurst — its second, following a location in Granbury.

Vampire Penguin shaved snow Halo Halo at Vampire PenguinVampire Penguin

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Great Biscuit & Spice brings homey breakfast and lunch to Saginaw

Great Biscuit Co.

Saginaw has a sweet mom-and-pop cafe and market serving breakfast, lunch, and meals to go: Called Great Biscuit & Spice Co., it's located at 100 S. Hampshire St. #100, in a former florist shop near the library west of Saginaw Boulevard.

Great Biscuit is from husband-and-wife Jon Julien and Malinda Julien, who dedicated a year to renovating the tiny 1,100-square-foot space, including installing a commercial kitchen.

Malinda, a former private investigator, is the chef. She learned to cook at an early age from her grandparents and housekeeper. Menu mainstays at the cafe include biscuits & gravy, biscuit sandwiches, blueberry biscuits, and a $10 breakfast plate with eggs and sausage or bacon.

Lunch options include chicken salad sandwich, a BLT, a burger, and a rice bowl with choice of chicken or beef tips.

They also offer packaged meals to go with stick-to-your-ribs items like pot roast, meatloaf, pork ribs, chicken alfredo, and rosemary chicken with garlic mashed potatoes and broccoli, priced from $10-$20.

"I guess you would just call it home cooking," Malinda says. "It's not Texan. I'll throw some Mexican in there. We'll throw in some South Carolina."

She's also an accomplished baker who makes bread, cinnamon rolls, cookies, and occasional desserts like bread pudding.

“We really felt like there was a need for just some solid food that didn't have a lot of preservatives and stuff that was ready and affordable for people to take home,” she says.

The space boasts a warm, homey vibe, with pine wood cabinets, a wooden community table and chairs, a black-and-white checkered tile floor, and a metal baker's rack painted a cheerful yellow.

“Diners come in and say, 'This is like my grandmother's house,'" Malinda says.

There’s about 500 square feet of dining space, initially set up as a waiting area but now ready to accommodate dine-in patrons. Next door to the cafe is a photography studio that the Juliens own, called Julien & Lambert. Malinda hopes to use that space to host tastings, cooking classes, and other events.

“We just really want you to feel emotionally and physically nourished when you eat here,” she says.

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