With apologies to that other coffee-and-pastries chain, it’s time to start selling Frosty’s doughnuts in Freeport.

On Thursday at 7 a.m., a little less than three months after signing a lease, the new satellite Frosty’s Donuts store at 45 Main St., next to the Freeport Historical Society, will open for business.

“Our regular hours will be 5 a.m. until 3 p.m. for now, but that may change,” said owner Nels Omdal. “We’ve been here doing a ton of work on the storefront, and we’ve had people come in at four or five in the afternoon wanting to buy doughnuts, so we’ll see how it goes.”

Omdal and his wife and Frosty’s co-owner, Shelby St. Andre, acquired and resurrected the longtime Brunswick doughnut shop in February. Then, when the Freeport space became available, they jumped into expansion plans and have been juggling renovation and construction ever since.

“We had hoped to be open in early July,” Omdal said, but that ended up being too optimistic.

Made in Brunswick

All doughnuts will be fried at the Maine Street store in Brunswick and ferried to Freeport five or six times each day. The confections are made using the same recipe as when former owners Bob and June Frost started the Frosty’s brand in Bath in 1965.

There are new developments, though.

“One cool, new thing we’re doing here is kind of a ‘design your own doughnut’ thing,” Omdal said. “Customers can choose the kind of doughnut they want and then decide what kinds of toppings they want to put on it.”