Sweet
Southern
4460 Marietta St, Powder Springs
Owner: Kenneth Brewer
Must Try: Ice cream cookie sandwich
Sweet Southern owner Kenneth Brewer won’t
settle for any cookie. He needs them fresh and,
when they are in stock, the ice cream cookie
sandwiches go quickly.
Brewer had a similar shop in Douglasville for
a year that closed in 2019. But he restarted his
business in Powder Springs and has been
amazed at the community support for his dessert
shop. Sweet Southern serves everything from ice
cream to sundaes, milkshakes, coee and bubble
tea.
“It’s been amazing,” Brewer said about the
community support he has received. “It’s a great
community. I’m happy I’m here.”
The shop is located right in front of the
amphitheater at Thurman Springs Park in Powder
Springs and events there bring in the crowds.
“Once school and college gets out, it will be
crazier,” Brewer said.
The shop has been open for a year and
Brewer, who grew up in Franklin, said that people
love to stop by for the Superman ice cream or to
try out the cookies and cream or butter pecan
flavors or even order a loaded sundae or a
shake.
BELOW TOP: Sweet Southern barista Emani
Young puts sprinkles on an order at the
Powder Springs dessert shop.
BELOW MIDDLE LEFT: Sweet Southernin
downtown Powder Springs, oers coee,
desserts, ice cream and boba tea. Sitting in
front of the shop’s dessert-winged mural are a
strawberry and a matcha boba tea.
BELOW BOTTOM LEFT: Sweet Southern barista
Jaazy Benzant serves an ice cream sample to
a customer at the Powder Springs ice cream
and dessert shop.
BELOW BOTTOM RIGHT: Sweet Southern
baristas Emani Young, left, and Jaazy Benzant
hold a chocolate milkshake and chocolate
scoop in a wae cone in front of a Powder
Springs mural on the shop’s side wall. Sweet
Southern oers hand-scooped ice cream, as
well as other desserts, coee and boba tea.
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