{"id":474748,"date":"2026-10-23T19:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/474748\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T19:56:07","slug":"coles-custom-cheesecakes-debuts-in-north-richland-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/474748\/","title":{"rendered":"Cole&#8217;s Custom Cheesecakes debuts in North Richland Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new destination for Fort Worth dessert fans that&#8217;s all about the cheesecake: Called <a href=\"https:\/\/colescustomcheesecakes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cole&#8217;s Custom Cheesecakes<\/a>, it&#8217;s a sweet shop that just opened at 8700 N. Tarrant Pkwy. #103 in North Richland Hills, where it&#8217;s serving cheesecake by the slice, whole cheesecakes, and mini bite-sized cheesecakes, as well.<\/p>\n<p>The shop is from Cole Jones, a hospitality veteran whose recipes combine his cheesecake passion with the preservation of his family heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Jones first launched the company in 2020, while he was caring for his grandmother, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Determined to preserve her tradition of baking, he learned her recipes and began selling cheesecakes \u2014 initially out of the back of his car, then at pop-ups and farmers markets, and then at partnering businesses such as JR&#8217;s BBQ-N-More. His hard work earned the company a &#8220;Best New Business Award&#8221; from the Keller Chamber of Commerce in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The unique twist is the way he incorporates the flavors of his grandmother&#8217;s recipes into his cheesecake varieties. For example, there&#8217;s a Grandma&#8217;s Sweet Potato Pie cheesecake, which features the flavors of what was his grandmother&#8217;s signature pie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sweet potato pie is our best-seller,&#8221; says manager Airos Gilchrist. &#8220;Cole&#8217;s grandmother is the heart of the business. While growing up, he&#8217;d spend summers with his grandma and her specialty was pies. He&#8217;s using all of her recipes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other <a href=\"https:\/\/colescustomcheesecakes.com\/shop-cheesecakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">flavors<\/a> include Bourbon Apple Pie, Caramel Pumpkin, Lemon Blueberry, NY Style Plain, NY Style with Strawberries, Reese&#8217;s Chocolate Peanut Butter, and Caramel Pumpkin.<\/p>\n<p>And if there&#8217;s any doubt about the inspiration, the restaurant pays tribute with a big photo of Cole&#8217;s grandmother on the wall, along with her recipe books, displayed on shelves.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant is located in a former cookie and doughnut shop in a small center that&#8217;s also home to Rita\u2019s Italian Ice &amp; Frozen Custard and Kindred Coffee. It&#8217;s all takeout, as there are no seats for dining in.<\/p>\n<p>For now, pre-order is available for whole 9-inch cheesecakes, priced from $50 to $60; mini bite-size cheesecakes, priced from $30 to $47 for a dozen, depending on variety; and cheesecake filled chocolate covered strawberries, $40 to $45 per dozen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re still in opening mode and figuring out what we&#8217;ll offer, but eventually, we&#8217;ll have a set menu with a variety of flavors available on site,&#8221; Gilchrist says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a new destination for Fort Worth dessert fans that&#8217;s all about the cheesecake: Called Cole&#8217;s Custom Cheesecakes,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1070,116,118,117,10144,423],"class_list":["post-474748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-desserts","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-north-richland-hills","tag-openings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474748","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=474748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}