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Ice cream shop Cow Tipping Creamery serves its last scoops at The Star in\u00a0Frisco in July 2026. After that, the parent company plans to open a cocktail bar that shares a kitchen with Cane Rosso.<\/p>\n
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Cow Tipping Creamery, a North Texas dessert shop known for its \u201cstackers\u201d<\/a> piled high with ice cream, baked goods and fudge, is closing at The Star in Frisco on July 14, 2026.<\/p>\n Next up: The company owners plan to open a cocktail bar called The Imperial Room. The move toward cocktails is a left turn for this Dallas-based restaurant group, which owns pizza shops Cane Rosso, Zoli\u2019s and Thunderbird Pies in addition to Cow Tipping Creamery.<\/p>\n Why is a pizza company pivoting to cocktails? The ice cream business was \u201cextremely seasonal,\u201d said Chief Marketing Officer Jeff Amador, and he hopes the cocktail lounge provides more consistent traffic.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Part of the allure was that the company owns a Cane Rosso next door to Cow Tipping. Side-by-side businesses mean the pizza shop and coming-soon cocktail bar can share a kitchen.\u00a0Amador\u2019s team took some inspiration from unaffiliated East Dallas eatery Goodwins and its attached Goose Bar<\/a>, which provides two places to eat and drink under the same roof.<\/p>\n Barman Gabe Sanchez, of downtown cocktail lounge Midnight Rambler<\/a> and East Dallas\u2019 Saint Valentine<\/a>, will create the cocktails at The Imperial Room.\u00a0<\/p>\n It will have a menu of small bites like Caesar salad and \u2018nduja toast as well as larger entrees like cacio e pepe, vodka agnolotti and a roast beef sandwich.<\/p>\n The Imperial Room is a small place, at 600 square feet, that will seat about 25 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n \u201cFor casual evenings, guests can hit up their favorite neighborhood pizzeria Cane Rosso,\u201d Amador said, \u201cand for the special occasion nights out, we’ll have The Imperial Room available right next door.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Cow Tipping Creamery’s ‘stackers’ are as tall as they sound.<\/p>\n Jeff Amador<\/p>\n Remembering Cow Tipping Creamery<\/p>\n Cow Tipping in Frisco was the final location of the Dallas-Fort Worth dessert business. Shops closed previously in East Dallas, Fort Worth and Carrollton<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The company has been selling sweet treats since 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n While Dallas-Fort Worth is flush with ice cream shops, Cow Tipping stood out. Its serving sizes were outrageously large, like an ice cream fever dream made for Instagram. Chefs regularly added new \u201cstackers\u201d to the menu, with inventive flavors like the Cinnacrumb, made with horchata soft serve, brown sugar hot fudge, toasted almonds, a drizzle of salted caramel sauce and hunks of sour cream coffee cake stuck to the top.<\/p>\n Other stackers were topped with funnel cake, caramel corn, cereal and gummy bears.\u00a0<\/p>\n Cow Tipping Creamery has a variety of interesting soft serve flavors. This dessert was served with lemon curd, crushed tea biscuits and honey ‘dust.’<\/p>\n Andy Jacobsohn\/Staff Photographer<\/p>\n For World Cup season, Cow Tipping debuted the Swirled Cup, a swirl of vanilla and chocolate soft serve, chocolate chip cookie dough,\u00a0Oreo crumbs and a sugar cookie stamped like a soccer ball.<\/p>\n The Frisco location was a hub for kids\u2019 sports teams and movie nights at The Star, the operators wrote in a goodbye post on Instagram<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n \u201cIt just became clear to us that after 10 years of Cow Tipping Creamery, we were ready to try something new,\u201d Amador said.<\/p>\n Cow Tipping Creamery is at 3685 The Star Blvd., Frisco. Get desserts there until July 14, 2026, after which it will be remodeled as a cocktail bar.<\/p>\n In this 2016 DMN file photo, 6-year-old Henry\u00a0McKibben snacks on ice cream at Cow Tipping Creamery, then located in East Dallas near Peavy Road. Henry is a teenager now.<\/p>\n Andy Jacobsohn\/Staff Photographer<\/p>\n
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