Cold Stone's Cat in the Hat Menu Runs Through December 1 — Four Items, and Cold Stone Has Published No Price for Any of Them

Cold Stone named four promotional items plus one promotional flavour in its October 7 announcement.

The headline item is The Cat in the Hat's Cotton Candy Catastrophe, a Creation. Cold Stone's own product page for it lists Blue Cotton Candy Ice Cream mixed with The Cat's Confetti Sprinkles, OREO Cookies and Whipped Topping. The announcement describes the same Creation as Cotton Candy Ice Cream with OREO Cookies, The Cat's Confetti Sprinkles and Whipped Topping — the product page is the only place the flavour is written as "Blue" Cotton Candy Ice Cream.

The Cake Full of Things is an ice cream cake. Cold Stone describes it as layers of moist Red Velvet Cake and Cotton Candy Ice Cream with The Cat's Confetti Sprinkles, wrapped in fluffy white frosting featuring The Cat in the Hat.

The remaining two items are serving pieces rather than separate desserts: The Cat's Confetti Waffle Bowl and The Cat's Confetti Waffle Cone, which Cold Stone offers as ways to order the Cotton Candy Catastrophe.

Both product pages were listed on Cold Stone's limited-time menu when they were checked on November 1, 2026.

Cold Stone stated the end date in its own announcement, which is less common than it sounds: a chain will usually announce a limited-time item and never name its last day.

The announcement is dated October 7, 2026 and says the treats are available "now through December 1, 2026". It repeats the date at the end, telling guests not to miss the treats "before The Cat in the Hat packs up his Things on December 1".

That makes December 1, 2026 an officially sourced last day rather than an inference from the film's release schedule. The film itself opens earlier, on November 6, 2026, so the promotion is set to run for roughly three and a half weeks after the opening.

One further date sits inside the promotion and comes sooner. Cold Stone's Cat in the Hat Sweepstakes runs through November 7, 2026, with one winner receiving a private screening of the film in their hometown and a $100 Cold Stone Creamery gift card. That window closes almost four weeks before the treats do.

Cold Stone has not published a price for any item in the lineup.

The announcement names the Creation, the cake, the waffle bowl and the waffle cone, and gives a prize value for the sweepstakes, but attaches no price to anything on the menu. Both official product pages — the one for the Cotton Candy Catastrophe and the one for the Cake Full of Things — carry the ingredients and an "Order Online" link, and no price.

There is a structural reason to expect that. Cold Stone Creamery is a franchise system of roughly 1,500 locations, and pricing at franchised chains is commonly set by the operator rather than nationally, so a single national figure may not exist to publish.

What that means for a reader is simply that any specific figure circulating for these items did not come from Cold Stone. This page will carry a price if and when the company states one.

The sources do not use the same words for where the treats are sold, and the difference is the kind that matters when a reader drives to a store.

Cold Stone's announcement says the treats are "available now at Cold Stone Creamery locations nationwide", with no participation qualifier.

Two outlets that covered the launch added one. Attractions Magazine wrote that the treats are available at Cold Stone Creamery participating locations nationwide through December 1, 2026. Sporked described the full lineup as available at participating Cold Stone locations nationwide through December 1.

Neither qualifier came from Cold Stone, and Cold Stone has not published a store list or an exclusions note. The honest position is the one the company stated — nationwide — with the caveat that two outlets reporting on the launch both independently described it as participating locations, which is the normal pattern for a franchised chain.

Cold Stone's announcement calls Cotton Candy Ice Cream the promotion's "Promotional Flavor", which reads as though the flavour arrived with the film.

Sporked reports otherwise, writing that Cold Stone's Cotton Candy Ice Cream is not new for the collaboration and that what the tie-in added was the sprinkles, the cookies and the themed serving pieces built around it.

That distinction is worth keeping straight, because it changes what is actually new here: a Creation, a cake and two waffle pieces assembled from an existing flavour, rather than a new ice cream.