{"id":205999,"date":"2026-03-15T20:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T20:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/205999\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T20:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T20:58:17","slug":"crave-to-bring-cookies-and-customizable-sodas-to-leander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/205999\/","title":{"rendered":"Crave to bring cookies and customizable sodas to Leander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUtah-based brand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cravecookies.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crave<\/a>, is setting up shop in Leander this May, said owner Arun Serikar. The new location will mark the company\u2019s first Austin-area venture, and will be locally owned and operated by franchisees Serikar and Purna Durshanpalli.<\/p>\n<p>On the menu<\/p>\n<p>The business will offer loaded sodas with syrups, creams and fruit add-ons, as well as a range of rotating cookie flavors.<\/p>\n<p>Drinks include the Coconut Crave, which is a Diet Coke Mix with fresh lime and coconut syrup. Signature cookie offerings include Nutella sea salt, snickerdoodle and chocolate chip.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s special about it?<\/p>\n<p>The deep-dish cookie flavors are rotated regularly, with six new combinations launched weekly.<\/p>\n<p>Quote of note:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the rapid growth in Leander and North Austin, we\u2019re excited to bring something fun and unique to the area,\u201d Serikar said in an email to Community Impact. \u201cCrave is about great desserts, but also about building connections within the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Utah-based brand, Crave, is setting up shop in Leander this May, said owner Arun Serikar. The new location&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,750,11291,80995,80993,11283,5414,40211,80992,80994],"class_list":["post-205999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-coming-soon","tag-cookies","tag-crave","tag-customizable-drinks","tag-leander","tag-local-business","tag-locally-owned","tag-sodas","tag-specialty-cookies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}