June 5, 2013
Ice Cream Recipes
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Tasha Moore has been scooping ice cream at Velvet Freeze for five years, and local musician Justin Goolsby is a fan of Velvet Freeze’s wax paper-wrapped cones to-go.
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By Shannon Cothran, Editor
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Here in Missouri, you can walk right out your front door, and if you keep going for long enough, you’re bound to run into a custard shop. But if ice cream is your favorite summer concoction, what address should you plug into your GPS? There are lots of decent chain ice cream places out there, but if you can find ice cream made by a Midwestern dairy or served in a mom-and-pop shop, you’re definitely getting your money’s worth. Community News has scouted a few local ice cream joints to get you started this summer. Have a favorite ice cream place we didn’t list? Let us know! Email editor@mycnews.com. Velvet Freeze 7355 W Florissant Ave, St Louis 314.381.2384 They say some things never change, and this ice cream shop is one of them. Walking into Velvet Freeze is like entering a time warp: open the door and you’re back in 1986. Kitschy décor covers every inch of space, old-school gospel music blares from a corner boom box, and owner John McGuiness still uses the same delicious ice cream recipe he did back then. A St. Louis favorite back in the 1950’s, most Velvet Freezes have gone out of business but not, as far as we can tell, from a lack of good ice cream.
Little O’s Old Time Soda Fountain 125 N. Main St, Saint Charles 636.724.0978 Last August, Christi Ozenkoski opened a historically accurate soda fountain in historic St. Charles. We cannot wait to take our kids here. Vintage soda shop stools beg to be spun, old-fashioned candies line the shelves, Ozenkoski bakes her own gooey butter cakes, and her scooped ice cream can be eaten with house-made sodas prepared with pure cane sugar syrups from Excel Bottling Company in Illinois. Riverside Sweets 416 S Main St, St Charles 636.724.4131 This candy shop gets some of its ice cream from Central Dairy in Jefferson City, MO; some from Prairie Farms, a central Illinois-based dairy; and the rest from Dean’s or Blue Bunny. “We try to find each company’s best flavors,” explains Susan Deppy, a Riverside staff member of four years. “We seek out the best of the best: there’s lots of taste-testing.” One of the most distinct flavors at Riverside is Chocolate Rainforest, a creamy chocolate base with chocolate flakes, crunchy cashews and a caramel swirl. They also have housemade chocolates including turtle corn (house-made popcorn with caramel and
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chocolate drizzled on top). Our favorite items at Riverside are all twelve flavors of homemade fudge made from scratch using real butter and cream. Fritsche’s Creamery 231 Spencer Rd, St. Peters 636.936.8348 Fritsche’s ice cream is made right inside the store using real ingredients, like vanilla extract, bananas, made-fromSee ICE CREAM page 2
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