09/18/2026
The End of a Beautiful Chapter 🤎
With a full heart, I’m sharing that Cinful Sweets will be closing.
After five unforgettable years, my lease has come to an end, and I have made the incredibly difficult decision not to renew it. Saying goodbye to my creative chocolate shop—and to the dream, love and hard work poured into it—is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do.
Five years ago, I opened Cinful Sweets because I believed chocolate could be more than something delicious. I believed it could be art.
But this dream began before I ever opened the doors, before my first sale.
My younger brother, Jorge, believed deeply in me. When he passed away, he left me as a beneficiary of his life insurance—a final gift that opened what I have always called my road to “YES.”
Yes, create it.
Yes, take the risk.
Yes, believe in yourself.
And I did.
For five years, I worked with heart, discipline and boy was I tenacious. I created chef-driven flavors inspired by my Hispanic heritage and Texas home. I treated chocolate as my canvas. I built and trained a team, taught my Austin community, created things I never thought possible, and worked with incredible customers and companies who trusted my creativity again and again.
Together, we started a conversation about The Art of Chocolate.
This is not how I imagined this chapter ending, but I refuse to look back with anything other than gratitude and pride.
We did it.
I took my road to “YES,” and I ran with it.
I created boldly. I took risks. I made mistakes. I made beautiful things. I made people happy.
To my customers, my corporate clients, my team, my friends and everyone who believed in Cinful Sweets—thank you. You allowed me to live a dream and create something that was truly mine.
Jorge believed in me before Cinful Sweets ever existed.
I hope I made him proud.
I know I made myself proud.
I hope someday another chocolatier, pastry chef, artist or dreamer sees what we created and thinks, “If she was brave enough to try it, maybe I can be brave enough too.”
Thank you, Austin, for allowing me to show you The Art of Chocolate. 🤎
— Chef Cinthya.