Coffee & Treats in Decatur

This time of year, unhealthy temptations abound: chocolate-covered reindeer, log-jam rolls, and gingerbread cars. Curb your treat-sneaking guilt without neglecting your sweet tooth with today's Groupon to Yogurberry. Located in the sleek, secretly-from-the-future Terminus building, this Buckhead shop serves up low-cal, non-fat frozen yogurt and smoothies that make celebrities and pastry chefs abandon their highly publicized affairs with ice cream in favor of a nurturing treat that reforms their image in the media. Stay on track with your New Year's resolution to eat better/learn invisibility/graduate college with this energy-giving snack.A brain freeze usually occurs when a food item of subzero temperature (ice-cream cone, frozen hot dog, et al.) is consumed rapidly, due to extreme deliciousness or an equally extreme desire to enter the movie theater quickly so as not to miss the trailer for Iron Man Too: 2 Iron Men.

The rich aroma of roasted nuts and the sugary smell of freshly made candy waft around bright green striped walls and collect in the lofty ceiling of Greene's Fine Foods. The shop's specialty, Georgia mammoth pecans, comes in a flavor rainbow of chocolate amaretto, mesquite barbecue, praline, and more ($7.50 for a half pound). New crop pecans are available after the fall harvest. A more bounceable gift, the "Please do not feed the gummi bears!" 1-pound gift bag ($8), can be customized to tote gummi critters such as butterflies, jet fighters, army men, and rattlesnakes rather than the standard bears. Business gifts and frozen yogurt are also available.

The Chocolate Bar's menu contains a veritable cornucopia of house-made chocolates, dessert plates, small bites, specialty cocktails, and expertly chosen wines. If you opt for the prix-fixe wine flight, you'll get three wines ($12) and your choice of three truffles ($5), three assorted popcorns ($12), or three cheeses ($13) to sample this chocolate cabin's wares. Otherwise, you can branch outward like a curious and hungry poltergeist tree with $25 worth of treats. Turn your palate to a culinary cocktail such as a summery beer float ($6), Leinenkugel's sunset wheat poured over a scoop of orange sherbet. Offset a liquid treat with some solid comestibles, such as smoked sockeye salmon ($10) in truffle and shallot vinaigrette. If you stopped by with a gaggle of friends, sweet-feast on a large dessert plate of peach melba ($8), a treasure trove of almond-vanilla sponge cake, peach sorbet, and raspberry mousse.

Every day at Bruster's Ice Cream, passionate ice-cream professionals craft fresh frozen treats while drawing from an arsenal of more than 200 recipes. At any given time, up to 24 different ice-cream flavors situate themselves on the shop’s menu, providing creamy canvases for a mélange of toppings including M&Ms, Oreos, peanut butter cups, chocolate chips, fudge, and gummy worms. A lineup of yogurt, sorbet, and fat-free selections provide lighter yet equally satisfying alternatives to traditional cones, and chilled beverages such as shakes, freezes, and fresh-fruit smoothies challenge slurpers to sip until lips become permanently frozen in the shape of an ear-to-ear grin. Bruster's also makes ice-cream pies, 8-inch cakes, and sheet cakes. In addition to dishing out treats from behind the counter, Bruster’s totes its refreshing repertoire to various events, where the company typically donates a portion of its sales to the event’s cause. For fundraising information, please contact the Bruster's during business hours.

After a career teaching children in the local school system, the ladies behind Endulge Cupcake Boutique traded their No. 2 pencils and answer keys for mixing bowls and muffin tins. Refining their methods together, the pair uses natural and organic ingredients to create ornate cupcakes that mirror the change in the seasons. White-chocolate-peppermint cupcakes welcome the winter chill of January, and strawberry-lemonade, piña-colada, and Carribean-pound-cake flavors herald the arrival of spring and summer. Caramel-apple and pumpkin-pie treats signal the ascent of autumn, and gingerbread cupcakes dance through your dreams in December, only to fall down and get icing on the back of your eyelids.

Surprise your sweetie with doughy breakfast in bed, reward your coworkers for making you look good, or treat yourself to doughnuts because they bring you doughnutjoy. Today's Groupon to Sublime Doughnuts gets you six gourmet doughnuts for $6 (up to a $12 value). Give morning the sweet start that will make your grumpy grandpa and snotty sister melt into rivulets of dark-chocolate glaze and cream.Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.