Plano South | August 2024

Dining

BY KAREN CHANEY

Various avors of tea and boba are available at Churn & Bake including taro milk tea with crystal boba.

Flights oer customers the opportunity to try four avors without the dierent avors melting together.

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Churn & Bake oers-Asian inspired avors in Plano Charlie Lin said he and his wife Stella Sheng opened Churn & Bake in 2022 with the intention of guring out the baking side of the business, but they’ve leaned into the ice cream shop.

Charlie Lin opened Churn & Bake Artisan Bakery in 2022 with his wife Stella Sheng.

available. Some of the popular Asian-inuenced ice cream avors are Vietnamese Coee Rocky Road, Ube Coconut Crunch and Thai Tea. Lin added that Thai Tea is his favorite avor. Other options include salted caramel, chocolate brownie batter and strawberry cheesecake. Non-dairy vegan options, such as lychee sorbet, are also available. Going forward Over the next ve years, Lin plans on increasing his wholesale business and hopes to open a second store. “Everything we do is quality over quantity,” Lin said. “Our second store will be very well thought out. I’m in no rush.”

“We bake all the toppings we put in our ice cream, like the brownie bites, cookies, all that stu, but we’re 95% ice cream,” Lin said. On the menu Lin draws from his Chinese American ancestry when developing the creamery’s avors. “I felt like the Chinese dessert scene was always underserved,” Lin said. “My favorite dessert growing up was ice cream. I felt like marrying the two together would make sense.” There are always 32 avors of frozen treats

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