ICE ‘N EZ: Transplanted New Jerseyans opened this little spot across from the Mason Public Library. It’s popular on the East Coast, in particular. Italian ice, or water ice, is a simple frozen mixture of water and sugar and fruit or flavorings. A recent list of their flavors included cherry pomegranate habanero, coconut chip, huckleberry, Nutella swirl, yellow cake and Unbridled rum raisin. The Colonel’s Creamery: They do cones, shakes, ice cream cakes, floats, malts and sundaes. I find the ice cream is sometimes a little grainy, but I love the flavors it comes in, from spicy chocolate to salty caramel and brown butter chip. And the marshmallows that she will put on top and then torch with a creme brulee torch. Nicely are the owners of this Downtown ice cream store.
A taste test done with a full panel here at the Enquirer several years ago picked UDF’s chocolate ice cream above many other brands, and I still think it hits exactly the right amount of chocolate richness: darker than milk chocolate, but not as challenging as bittersweet and extra-dark.Ī torched marshmallow on top of ice cream at Hello Honey, Downtown. That’s because having UDF in town means that there’s an honest-to-goodness ice cream parlor in just about every neighborhood, where they will make you a turtle sundae, whip up a real milkshake or make an actual ice cream soda – for pretty cheap and with good ice cream. UDF: Graeter’s gets all the attention from the national media, but it’s people who live here who really appreciate UDF. (There’s no brain freeze like a snow-cone brain freeze.) Here are some ice cream ideas and other sweet treats that do the job It doesn’t have to be ice cream, though there are so many other frozen concoctions that do the same thing. The frozen sweetness sliding down your throat and giving your brain a freeze can instantly take the temperature down a few notches. Hot summers are made bearable by cold ice cream. I marked our part in bold at the bottom of this article. I am so behind on noticing this, but the Cincinnati Enquirer did an article about great places to eat cold treats this summer and we made the list!