Coffee & Treats in Security-Widefield
Recommended Coffee & Treats by Groupon Customers
A modern-day soda fountain. AKA: The castle of cool. The fortress of fun. The Stadium of sweet. The fountain of youth. We offer: 70+ flavors of custom, hand-crafted soda, Homemade ice cream, Candy, Sandwiches, Shaved Ice, Cotton Candy, Popcorn, & Squeak gear.
The favorite ice cream of Colorado Springers Colorado Springs wide, Josh & John's luscious blends are made without hormoney, artificially beefed-up dairy products, and each scoop is fresh, often churned just hours before. Like the seasons, special flavors come and go by the day or week, but popular stalwarts such as yellow cake, chocolate-chip-cookie dough, oatmeal cookie, Dutch chocolate, and Rocky Mountain Roads Take My Tongue Home hold down the creamy fort. Dive face-first into a regular-sized cone ($4) or homemade waffle-bowl ice-cream salad ($5.45). Top them with garnishes such as fresh whipped cream, nuts, fruit, the house-crafted caramel, and more ($0.15–$0.90 each). Go sundae any day ($5.10 for a regular) or celebrate soccer-league victory with a round of root-beer floats ($4.25). You can also take home a pint of your own ($4.75) or prepare in advance for a chilly special occasion by ordering an ice-cream cake (starting a $19).
Those who live, breathe, and snort coffee will find a fine selection of both classic blends and little-known beans at Pikes Perk. Percolate perkiness with the medium-bodied Tanzanian Peaberry, or the bitter-less Jamaican Blue Mountain. Black-coffee purists can grab a 20-ounce cup of joe ($1.99), whereas those who spruce up beloved brews can order a white mocha ($4.19 for 16 ounces), or enliven their aromatic medley with a shot from one of the 50 syrups available. Hoard a pot of hot Pikes' peach tea, with chunks of fruit from Austria ($3.59), or soothe your stomach with something from Pikes' food menu of pastries, sandwiches, and breakfast items.
Cupcake connoisseurs flock to Sweet Daphne Confections, grabbers grasping for the bakery's handheld indulgences. Today's Groupon gets you four of these gourmet cup-based treats, letting you choose from a wide variety of classic and creative cake flavors that cradle creamy centers. In addition to being smothered in butter-cream frosting, each expertly baked edible is infused with a sweet filling, such as peanut butter, chocolate mousse, cream cheese, pastry cream, and caramel, making them fun to eat, easy to talk to, and respectable models for cross-section drawing class. Due to their fresh-baked nature, selections change daily, but a statistically sound segment of the population is always represented.
The super-premium ice cream at Glacier Homemade Ice Cream & Gelato—which represented Colorado on Serious Eats’ list of America’s Best Ice Cream—is proof that less is more. Their chief concern is “overrun,” a term that refers to how much air is mixed into each batch of ice cream. Some less delicious ice creams can contain up to 50% air; however, Glacier’s flavors contain only 5%–7% air, yielding richer flavors and a creamier texture.
Also lauded by outlets such as the Denver Post and Colorado Daily, Glacier has a catalogue of more than 800 flavors, up to 60 of which are on hand and ready to scoop at all times. Their ice cream wizards create a new flavor every two weeks, resulting custom tastes such as chocolate raspberry truffle, caramel Oreo, and espresso chocolate buzz with a double-strength coffee base. They also craft premium Italian gelatos with skim milk, producing rich frozen treats with half the fat of ice cream in flavors such as chocolate hazelnut, peanut butter fudge, and pistachio.
No matter the flavor, Glacier uses fresh ingredients such as hand-squeezed limes, ripe strawberries, and homemade chocolate. They’ve also committed to staying Colorado-local whenever possible, receiving produce from local food producers in Penrose, Rocky Ford, Palisade, and even stocking local Umpire State Coffee, local Jerry's Nut House, imported Italian candy and using local produce like apples, melons, and peaches.
Like clockwork, Stephen's Bakery’s bakers arrive at 5 a.m. six days a week to begin mixing dough for fresh bread, pastries, and their signature rounded kolacky pastries. They fill the kolacky, an Eastern European specialty dating to the 1700s, with a traditional fruit filling as well as more modern flavors, such as barbecue chicken, bacon-wrapped jalapeños, and sautéed microchips. Customers can smother morning hunger with other sweet treats including donuts, cinnamon rolls, danishes, and muffins, whereas at lunchtime, the bakery serves up Nathan’s all-beef hot dogs inside of pillowy housemade buns.
