Coffee & Treats in Wake Forest

Yelpers give A La Mode Ice Cream Café a five-star average rating, and more than five hundred Facebookers are fans.

Goodberry's Frozen Custard blankets tongues in sub-zero sumptuousness by assembling all-natural ingredients into fresh, creamy treats. Batches of the spoon-wooing bounty are created every hour, made with eggs, natural cane sugar and imported vanilla and cocoa flown in on the backs of sweet-tooth fairies. Spoons plunge into chocolate, vanilla, and the flavor of the day, which include the likes of hazelnut, pumpkin, and sweet cream. Build your own Carolina concrete ($3.79–$5.29), a classic Goodberry staple, by choosing fresh fruits, nuts, and syrups to accent a cup's toothsome cargo. Cones and cups fight bottom-to-bottom battles over holding a solo scoop of orange cream ($2.99 for one scoop), a duo of chocolate and vanilla ($3.59), or a triple-decker stack of coconut ($4.19). Customers can also add an avalanche of toppings to scoops for a scalable sundae ($3.79–$5.29).

Made fresh daily, Daylight Donuts bakes and shakes a bevy of baked goodies to satisfy hungry stomachs and coat throats with a spread of liquid energizers. Sate dough desires with a delicious assortment of bountiful sweets, including the light-textured, made-from-scratch donuts ($0.89+), taste-bud-tantalizing cupcakes ($2.50), or tongue-smothering cakes ($30+).

Palsie's Popcorn and Sweets has over 70 gourmet flavors of Popcorn, as well as home made fudge, brittles, retro candies, New Orleans style sno-balls, and hand dipped ice cream. We create special gift baskets, themed gift boxes and popcorn tins all with unique gourmet flavors where popcorn is the centerpeice.

In life, there are people who follow the rules, and then there are those who decide to blaze their own path. Tyler Adkins, owner and baker-in-chief at Cups Cookies, is one of the latter, having quit his career in law to pursue something more fulfilling: baking. But he knew he didn’t want to offer humdrum cookies you could get anywhere. Instead, he broke away from the traditional flat-cookie shape and molded his dough into cupcake pans, creating a new line of hybrid treats with delicious fillings.

Not only does Adkins do the baking, he can often be found delivering cookies to happy customers around New York City. Each dozen contains six flavors, ensuring sweet teeth are satisfied enough to take an early retirement.

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.