Coffee & Treats in Morrisville

Each flavor-packed category of smoothies fulfills different wants and needs. To improve overall health, look under the Stay Healthy header. A pomegranate punch is chock full of antioxidants and pomegranates. The less-than-400-calorie (for a 20 oz. size) Trim Down smoothies such as the raspberry sunrise pack flavor without packing pounds. Pick yourself up for a demanding day at work or home fumigation with a Get Energy smoothie. The coffee smoothie mocha contains coffee, non-fat milk, protein blend, and turbinated sugar. Snack Right smoothies are low-fat, satisfying treats that perk up your tongue and increase spacial skills.

For more than 30 years, the name of the elusive baked goods baroness has been a shopping-mall mainstay. Utilizing a secret blend of high-quality ingredients, her underground bakery bunker doles out oven-fresh favorites with the grace of a nimble gazelle wafting delicately across the African outback.

Conveniently located in the 140-store Cary Towne Center mall, the DQ Treat Center offers a cool respite for shoppers tired of fitting-room lines and surly sales clerks. Celebrating its 25th year, the signature Blizzard's chunky charms are as inescapable as ever, with classic candies such as Butterfinger, Oreos, and Snickers and newer flavor options like Strawberry CheeseQuake blended to unmatched thickness with creamy soft serve ($3.19–$3.89). The Peanut Buster Parfait ($4.19) slathers vanilla ice cream in fudge and peanuts for an appealingly layered delight. This location harnesses the relentless power of the DQ Blizzard alongside the brightly colored grace and dignity of Orange Julius smoothies ($4.49) and fruit drinks ($3.19–$3.79) to create a sweet treat superpower.

Rex’s Bite Size Chicken is known for its bite-sized, always-crispy, and ever-boneless fried-chicken chunks. A basket of the hand-cut, hand-breaded bitable bits ($6.99) comes in original or spicy jalapeno varieties and is accompanied by a homestyle side—such as green beans, fried okra, or baked beans—and signature frybread, a flat, deep-fried pillow-like dough accompanied by honey stolen from lackadaisical bears. Alternately, let your chicken nap on a bed of lettuce, tomatoes, and onions ($6.99), slip between a bun ($7.29), or jump into a hoagie drizzled with Rex's own sauce ($7.69). The menu offers ample poulet possibilities, including the SUV package ($37.99), a 2.5-pound bucket of chicken chunks with three one-pint sides and two baskets of frybread, shareable among up to six eaters or with a two-mouthed buddy. Guests can further sweeten their palates with confections from Freshberry Frozen Yogurt or Smallcakes, located in the same space.

Miel's gourmet chocolates and baked goods are handcrafted from fresh, upscale ingredients to please taste buds and sight buds alike. Designer cookies, cupcakes, and desserts are stuffed to the sugary gills with unusual, imaginative flavors, such as lavender almond shortbread, as well as American classics like vegan peanut butter and Henry David Thoreau's Walden. With their palate-pleasing complexities, Miel's decadent chocolates could make for a dentist-taunting meal of savory sweets. Drop a few triple espresso chocolates in a steaming cup of morning brew for a luxurious eye-opener, or suck a sea salt caramel for a taste of swashbuckling adventure, minus the wooden limbs and scurvy. Lemon-basil white chocolates and raspberry-rose dark chocolates lend botanical notes to the roster, while the truffle de whiskey promises to become the favorite of besotted uncles across the incorporated township. Mix and match a crock o' chocs at Miel's candy counter, or purchase a pre-arranged pantheon with six-piece ($15), nine-piece ($20.50), or 12-piece ($25) chocolate boxes. Any exiled member of Russian royalty is sure to be the toast of the office party with a bundle full of Miel's sumptuous sweets.

Founded by ice-cream enthusiasts Donald and Susan Sutherland in 1988, Cold Stone Creamery has grown to more than 1,400 locations across North America. Each day, the shop's scoopers mix up fresh batches of ice cream and sorbet, which are served by the scoop, piled high in sundaes, and blended into shakes. After customers choose their desired flavor, the staffers toss the chilly sustenance upon a slab of frozen granite and fold in a smorgasbord of candy and nuts to achieve the ideal ice-cream-to-add-in ratio. Customers can dream up their own creations or opt for a signature masterpiece, sampling one of more than 11.5 million possible flavor combinations. To accommodate sweets cravings at celebrations, staff members also dish out premade treats, such as ice-cream cakes and baked goods.