Add ice cream to itinerary with visit to sweet shop
On the road, a trip to the local sweet shop is often on our to-do list. If you and your family love ice cream, consider incorporating the cool confection into your next vacation.
Sassy Cow Creamery, Columbus, Wisconsin:
It’s no surprise that you’ll find great ice cream in the heart of America’s dairyland. More than 70 flavors of premium farm-stand ice cream are crafted using milk from the family’s cows. Lovers of the sweet treat can savor fresh options like Cookie Monster, fresh peach, peanut butter explosion and blueberry pie. Stop in the Farmhouse Kitchen for lunch, where dairycentric menu items include Sassy Cow Cheddar grilled cheese served with regular or chocolate milk. And take a farm tour to discover what transpires in the parlor where the cows are milked and to meet the sassy animals.
Memorial Ice Cream, Mount Rushmore, South Dakota:
Thomas Jefferson was a man of many talents. Among them? Ice cream making. At Mount Rushmore, the memorial commemorates Jefferson’s legacy by serving vanilla ice cream based on his original recipe from 1780. Instructions for his version of the cold concoction now reside in the Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress. You can taste for yourself at the park’s Memorial
Ice Cream Shop. Jefferson helped popularize ice cream by serving the sweet treat at his Monticello plantation.
Salt & Straw, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon:
Billed as “farm-to-cone ice cream,” creative flavors regularly result in lines out the door as patrons debate their new favorite concoction. Launched by cousins Kim and Tyler Malek, the pair use local, sustainable and organic ingredients to deliver handmade, small batches of goat cheese marionberry habanero,
Meyer lemon buttermilk with blueberries, strawberry cilantro lime cheesecake and double-fold singing dog vanilla. If your mouth is watering as you read this, know that Salt & Straw delivers.