At Alamo City Moms Blog, we love local businesses, so when our advertising sponsor Arctic Ape Wild Desserts invited our North East Neighborhood Group in for a fun afternoon, we jumped at the opportunity! Arctic Ape isn’t just your run-of-the-mill yogurt shop. It’s a place where community is encouraged. It’s an atmosphere that invites you to stay. And it’s a family-run staff who understands the importance of providing a place where children can have fun!
Located in Windcrest, just down Walzem Road from Rackspace headquarters, Arctic Ape carries its theme throughout its entire experience. With blue lighting, icy decor, and the Arctic Ape himself at home in his abode, you know fun awaits you on this visit for treats.
Arctic Ape Wild Desserts offers 18 rotating flavors of frozen yogurt, plus gelato, Italian ice, sorbet, custard, smoothies, and milkshakes. But unlike other frozen yogurt places, which feature frozen yogurt made from powdered material, Arctic Ape makes its frozen yogurt fresh with live cultures so that it’s better for you and your kids and guaranteed high quality. Flavors like Orange Cremecicle, Yellow Cake Batter Gelato, Mango Pucker Punch, and Chocolate-Covered Pretzel will tempt your taste buds. But the true fun comes from the more than 100 toppings to make your dessert the perfect mix! Plus, no-sugar-added frozen yogurt and toppings and non-dairy frozen yogurt make their treats enjoyable for everyone.
A bookshelf of games invites you and your family or friends to stay and spend the afternoon or evening in fellowship. Games vary for the young and the young at heart.
The Witcher Family are Windcrest residents who love seeing their community at home in their shop. And on our visit, we saw them welcome the local firefighters team with free dessert in thanks of their service. How’s that for community right in our own backyard?
At our playgroup, moms and kids alike enjoyed treats, games, and fun, and my kids ask almost daily, “Mom, when can we go back to Arctic Ape?!”
Make sure you take the time to visit Arctic Ape Wild Desserts. Plan to spend some time, soak in the atmosphere, and have some good old-fashioned family fun!
So just how did they get the name Arctic Ape?
The Arctic Ape (Simia glacialus habitatus)
Discovered and rescued by an Inuit hunting party, the Arctic Ape was found in a small glacial cave just inside the Arctic Circle. The cave was discovered as a result of warming temperatures around the world. The scientific community, intrigued by the discovery of a new species of Great Apes, conducted DNA analysis and found that he is related to the mountain gorilla. He may also be related to Sasquatch and yetis, based on descriptions given by eyewitnesses.
Extended hibernation seems to have caused traumatic amnesia, and the Arctic Ape does not know how old he is, how or when he arrived in the Arctic Circle, or how long he was in hibernation.
Several artifacts, equipment, and supplies were found with the Arctic Ape. These items were collected and saved for when he found a permanent home. Not all of them will fit in his new house at once, so he exchanges items between storage and his research facility from time to time.
During considerable thawing and reconditioning, he developed an insatiable sweet tooth and desire to eat everything cold that he encountered.
He traveled the world, sampling all manner of frozen treats and drinks. This appetite led to research and study around the science of churning and freezing liquids and mixing in other substances to create yummy compounds. Through a series of experiments, he discovered that real milk, cream, soy, and yogurt form better tasting, nutritious desserts than re-hydrating powder-based mixes. He believes that infusing real fruit, chocolate, nuts, and grains makes icy treats even more flavorful.
While doing all of this work, he found that there were way too many choices for him to decide which one was best and started looking for the perfect place to continue his experiments. Besides, hogging all this yumminess was not fair to the world.
The Arctic Ape reflected on his travels and searched for a vibrant, multi-cultural, friendly city with (of most importance) a warm year-round climate. He found the perfect location for his first one-ape dessert heaven, development center, and research laboratory in a “City of Lights”—Windcrest, Texas, a wonderful small city in the northeast corner of the San Antonio area.
The Arctic Ape is a master of frozen dessert technology, but he quickly admits that others have different ideas and can create things that enhance his creamy desserts. He provides his lab assistants with icy treats and goodies for underneath, on-top, and mixed inside, to form their vision of a perfect dessert.
Arctic Ape Wild Desserts
5221 Walzem Rd.
Windcrest, TX 78218
(210) 257-5949
