Flavors include Cat’s MeowMexican Vanilla, Milk Chocolate Stout and Strawberries & Cream.
The brown butter brown sugar cones are made in-house.
BUSINESS FEATURE
Sarah Johnston started selling her ice cream in 2011. (Photos by Sierra Rozen/Community Impact Newspaper)
Fat Cat Creamery First ice cream shop in the Heights serves fresh, local scoops A s a resident of the Heights for over 15 years, Sarah Johnston said she has a deep love for Houston and its diverse BY SIERRA ROZEN
The business is named after Johnston’s late cat, nicknamed Fat Cat.
SEASONAL OFFERINGS Fat Cat Creamery o ers a seasonal menu that changes daily. Some avors on that menu include: Hot chocolate: chocolate ice cream made with 68% dark chocolate
at the forefront of Johnston’s mind as it has always been her personal philosophy. “If I was going to start an ice cream shop, it de nitely was going to be using the ideals that I subscribe to in life—so trying to support local, getting milk and cream from local farmers and eggs from local farmers,” Johnston said. The traditional avors are all available as well as seasonal avors that rotate through the year. “Making the base and everything completely from scratch and also our commitment to sustain- ability and using local ingredients really sets us apart,” Johnston said. “We [also] do milkshakes, malts sundaes [and] our own baked goods.” With the recent opening of the newest shop, Johnston said she is content with making sure both of her stores continue to thrive in the Houston com- munity. Supporting local does not stop at where she gets her ingredients; it also carries over into the people she hires, she said. “My favorite thing about being a business owner in general is being able to give people a job and being able to support the community. I really like Houston. This is my home,” Johnston said.
Whiskey butter pecan: brown butter and brown sugar ice cream with rotating whiskeys and toasted pecans Buttered rum raisin: house-spiced Railean Rum-soaked raisins in a butter and spiced rum ice cream Pumpkin cheese cake: fall-spiced pumpkin and cream cheese ice cream with graham cookie crumbs
communities. The owner of Fat Cat Creamery, an ice cream shop that specializes in using locally sourced ingredients, Johnston was the rst to open an ice cream store in the Heights. She started selling her ice cream in 2011 and opened the storefront in 2013. During Halloween weekend in 2020, she opened her second store, which also hosts the production of the ice cream. Johnston said having the second location allows her to focus on the business side of things as her head ice cream chef takes care of things such as coming up with new avors and overseeing the production of the product. Everything on the menu is made in house— except the rainbow sprinkles, Johnston said. If there is a cookie inserted into the avor, it is baked in house. Even the brown butter brown sugar wa e cones are made fresh every day. Using fresh and local ingredients has always been
Fat Cat Creamery A 1901 N. Shepherd Drive, Houston 713-869-1080 B 1225 W. 34th St., Houston 832-409-6568 www.fatcatcreamery.com Hours: Mon.-Thu. noon-10 p.m., Fri. noon-11 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m.- 11 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.
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