This is the best place to get you guilty pleasures at���
Awesome customer service and soft, delicious cookies with great ice cream. Loved the Kona Coffee ice cream!
Snicker doodle and pumpkin ice cream sandwich woweewow I'm in food heaven.
Wonderful soft cookies and really flavorful ice cream.
Definitely worth treating yourself. They also have Gluten Free options!
Just went with girls. Chocolate chip cookie with rocky road ice cream. A hit! Snickerdoodle with Taro (5 yr old liked the purple color- flavor not so much) I think i might just buy their awesome in house fresh baked cookies.
Just OD'ed on a variety of items here today. STAX is a great addition to UTC- UC Irvine. Espresso is a perfect blend of only the best, ice cream is from Fosselman's (enough said), and their cookies are made IN-HOUSE by a great pastry chef who sprinkles them with lots of love. Must try: Red velvet white chocolate chip cookies, Maple Bacon cookies, and their affogato. What are you waiting for? Stop by next week!! :D
Omg this is going down right now , my office just had this delivered and it's Nirvana �
Danielle Christine Yee
+5
Snickerdoodle and chocolate chip cookies with mint chip ice cream
Nestled in the middle of a buzzing University Town Center, is one of Orange County’s most popular little dessert spots called “Stax Cookie Bar”. This refreshing cookie and ice cream sandwich shop offers a variety of sweet treats that can cure even the most aggressive sweet tooth. All of their cookies are made in house, and baked fresh all day, every day. They use NON-GMO certified organic flour and other premium natural ingredients to make them as wholesome as possible. I also love the fact that they have gluten-free vegan cookies that my son can enjoy. But perhaps their best quality is the fact that all of their ice creams are natural and growth hormone-free (rBGH).
I knew that a fun-filled week of free food, beaches, and vegan favorites would eventually come to an end, but at least it ended on a sweet note. Our trip to Tustin eventually became a trip to Irvine. The day was still gorgeous, bright, and sunny when we pulled up to the parking lot at University Town Center, right across from the UC Irvine campus.
What should I get: a cookie or ice cream? Why not have both? Stax Cookie Bar reinvents the way you think of ice cream sandwiches. All cookies are made in house and baked fresh all day, every day. Stax uses certified organic flour and other premium ingredients to make wholesome cookies. Stax Cookie Bar is in a great location in University Center in Irvine, CA. It is right across the street from the UCI campus and a great snack or dessert choice after your meal at great places like Blaze Pizza, Eureka!, or Mendocino Farms.
Donuts, Cookies, And Cream
+4.5
It’s never too cold to eat ice cream. Stax Cookie Bar in Irvine, CA had their grand opening day/ribbon cutting ceremony on Saturday, October 18, 2014. They are located in the University Center across from UCI campus. #GOGOGO
Get to Know Stax:
Stax Cookie Bar offers an assortment of cookies and ice cream flavors. They have one talented pastry chef who bakes these delighted treats. Each batch of cookies are made fresh daily, and are all made with 100% organic or gluten-free flour! They offer the traditional flavors such as Chocolate Chip and Oatmeal, and also offer unique tasting flavors such as Root Beer Float, Coconut Pineapple, Maple Bacon, Red Velvet, and many more.
Because they specialize in hand-made ice cream sandwiches (hence, the name “Stax”), they also offer a variety of artisan ice cream selections. They currently have a partnership with Fosselman’s ice cream that uses high quality ingredients to create each flavor. Believe it or not, but there are over 4,000 possible combinations! #THEMORETHEMERRIER
Asides from cookies and ice cream, they also offer sundaes, milkshakes, and malts, and two signature desserts – the Affogato and the Smookie. The owner, Rick (such an amazingly sweet and nice man!) wanted additional dessert options, and ta da, these two specialty desserts were added.
The Affogato at Stax Cookie Bar puts a twist on the traditional dessert by allowing customers to choose their own ice cream flavor, and then adding hot chocolate and salted caramel flavors with the usual espresso atop.
The Smookie is a warm, gooey cookie dough topped with vanilla ice cream and hot fudge. #TODIEFOR We got to sample this along with other cookies and Stax combinations, and this treat pretty much made us roll our eyes back and think “OMG…” #TOOGOODTOBETRUE
How to Stax:
Pick any two cookies of your choice
Choose your ice cream flavor
Devour your Stax
Do the happy dance because your belly is happy (optional)
What should I get: a cookie or ice cream? Why not have both? Stax Cookie Bar reinvents the way you think of ice cream sandwiches. All cookies are made in house and baked fresh all day, every day. Stax uses certified organic flour and other premium ingredients to make wholesome cookies. Stax Cookie Bar is in a great location in University Center in Irvine, CA. It is right across the street from the UCI campus and a great snack or dessert choice after your meal at great places like Blaze Pizza, Eureka!, or Mendocino Farms.
Ice cream rolls are worth trying. I ordered mango and ube flavors with cheesecake bites and chocolate drizzle. They are tasty, but I think half of the portion is already enough for me.
It's a small place, only 2 seating areas. Service is good. They now also offer panini and salads.
Aaaaamazing "smookie" desserts. Get the s'mores cookies with salted caramel ice cream and prepare for one of the best desserts you've probably ever had. Seriously, it's that good. I haven't even tried anything else on the menu. They do have other creative desserts like a "puffle" and ice cream rolls if you're looking for more variety, but trust me and try this smookie.
STAX Cookie Bar .!!!
I have tried Thai Tea ice cream it’s yummy.!!
The place is good.!!
They serve best my favorite Illy Coffee .!!
Great staff.!!
Best place to try rolled ice with cookie it’s amazing.!!
Watching them while making rolled ice cream is really fun !!!
Tried the mango flavor frozen yogurt. Watching them making the frozen yogurt was really fun. The taste is amazing for a ice-cream lover ! However it is probably too much for myself. Eat them all and fell frozen.
My family got the creamrito (sp)? It was extremely good and definitely one to share with others! Customer service was spot on and was able to answer any questions about what they had to offer. Will be coming back again!
Everyone here is super friendly! I got the chocolate ice cream rolls with strawberry and whipped cream. I asked for extra extra extra whipped cream because I LOVE whipped cream. They gave me the whole can! Unfortunately, the ice cream rolls weren't chocolatey enough for me. I did take a samples of their ice cream and they were good! I really liked the Ube flavor! It brought back so many memories :). I would give the ice cream a 3.75/5. But the service was so amazing I'm gave it a 5 star rating! I will definitely come back here!!! (And yes, me and my friend finished the whole can of whipped cream)
This was a great dessert! The ice cream sandwich was not soggy, the cookie was still hard and not moist. It held its own. Also, the kona coffee ice cream was just sweet enough and had enough coffee to it that nothing was overpowering in taste. I had this Friday night and am still thinking about it this Monday afternoon!
I got a scoop of ube ice cream between a macadamia and a white and black cookie. The cookies were firm yet chewy, so that alone made it great, but combined with the ice cream made it a delicacy. The staff had great energy which made it all that better. Definitely going back throughout summer.
Why wasn't this place around when I was going to UCI?! Although you can certainly make your own ice cream cookie sandwiches, it's fun (and delicious) to get one "professionally" made once in awhile.
At $3.75 per cookie sandwich, I'd say that's about par. The Coolhaus ones are $5 from their truck and at Whole Foods!
I didn't realize they served Fosselman's ice cream until afterwards, so it was a bonus surprise. They do have quite a few different ice cream options but I opted for Pistachio!
My combination was Green Tea Cookie, Pistachio ice cream, and Oatmeal Raisin. The oatmeal raisin overpowered the green tea a bit but I still enjoyed it.
From my visit, the cookies were not hard, just slightly firm, so enough to push the ice cream out but it wasn't TOO messy.
If I'm in the area again, I would go for another dessert sandwich!
Also with Yelp Check-in you get a 20% discount off their Affogato.
Chelsea Madren (OC Food Diva)
+5
"Sweet Stax" are custom ice cream sandwiches. First, choose any two cookies (you can mix and match). Second, choose your ice cream. Third, choose your topping (for an additional $.50). Fourth, enjoy! One combination to try is the Mocha cookies with Kona Coffee ice cream. The cookies are baked so that they are still soft-baked and have some give when you bite into the sandwich. The Mocha cookie had good balance of chocolate and coffee flavors. The Kona Coffee ice cream tasted like an iced Kona Coffee with creamy, velvety texture. Rating: 4.5/5
Smookie is warm gooey cookie dough topped with ice cream, and your choice of hot fudge or caramel. If you like the Pizookie from BJ's or the Cowboy Cookie at Black Angus, you'll absolutely love this dessert. The Brownie cookie dough is warm and almost brownie-like in texture. The Blueberry Cheesecake ice cream is to die for! It reminds me of my first (and most memorable) blueberry cheesecake ice cream I had as a child from an ice cream shop on the Big Island of Hawaii. It has beautiful swirls of blueberry preserve with a creamy cheesecake ice cream base. I would be just happy with another scoop of that ice cream! The caramel sauce was perfect with the brownie cookie making it more like a turtle brownie. Rating: 5/5
If you just feel like a cookie, they have many to choose from. M&M cookie has the M&Ms broken up and it looks like confetti. It perfectly disperses the chocolate and candy coating in the cookie so each bite has the chocolate and a little bit of crunch from the candy coating. Rating: 4.5/5
Snickerdoodle cookie has that great cream of tartar and sugar cookie flavor with a nice dose of cinnamon and sugar on top. They are so soft and I could easily eat more than one! Rating: 5/5
Chocolate Chip cookie tastes just like homemade. The cookie base tastes like butter and brown sugar. It has a lot of chocolate chips in it so every bite is as good as the last. Rating: 5/5
This is like every trendy dessert place combined into one. They have shaved snow, ice cream cookie sandwiches, tea, and more. It's decent quality, and the prices are good. Unfortunately, they've been out of product before, and it can take them a long time to make certain items. I'll still come here because it's so convenient, but they could do with a bit of process improvement.
Fun hormone free desserts. Great ice cream, creamy, light and not too rich. Assortment of cookies, pastries and other sweets. Creative and fun.. Ice cream burritos, sundaes and more. Award Winning.
Cookies and ice cream my two favorites put together what else can I ask for :P I love this place! There's a variety of different cookies to choose from as well as ice cream flavors. Check it out people!
Yummy.... I liked their coconut cookies. Their iceream doesn't taste great though. They hace good brownie sundaes too....
Try their ube rolled ice cream with cookie dough inside!
Really creamy rolled ice cream and regular ice cream, good sized drinks for the price, friendly workers, and nice cookie to ice cream ratio for the ice cream sandwich.
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