Pints of Comfy Cow peppermint stick and cinnamon mon ice cream flank a scoop of cinnamon mon.
Tell me about favorite desserts and sweet treats for the holidays: What have you got? If you celebrated Hanukkah in your household, you’ve enjoyed such deliciousness as hamentaschen, jelly donuts, and all manner of fried sweets. Christmas brings a wealth of sugary delights, from gingerbread cookies and Yule log cakes to the ubiquitous fruitcake and whatever the hell sugar plums are.
But wait! Where’s the ice cream Yes, knocking back a pint of frozen cream can bring down your core temperature, but inside a warm and cozy house, in front of a fireplace, ice cream can be a festive treat.
We checked in at Comfy Cow, Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Shop, and Graeter’s this week and found all three offering flavors that work for the holidays, some of them billed as special seasonal flavors.
Graeter’s, for instance, has three seasonal flavors for the holidays: Cinnamon, peppermint stick, and pumpkin ($5.18 for a pint). Comfy Cow’s Westport Village shop offered us its branded cinnamon mon and peppermint stick ($7.50 for a pint) as seasonal treats. And over at Homemade’s St. Matthews shop, they weren’t earmarking seasonal flavors, but we picked up a cup of cinnamon to match the other two, plus a cup of coconut flake just because ($4 for a cup).
Since we ended up with three samples of cinnamon ice cream, it made sense to try them all together. I’m happy to say that they’re all pretty good. I like cinnamon, but I also have my limits and probably wouldn’t want to eat the stuff all year. But right now while it’s seasonal, sure! It’s a better pick for me than pumpkin spice. Cinnamon good. Cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice and ginger, a little too much.
But I digress: We’re talking about cinnamon ice cream, and here were three samples. They were all, well, cinnamony, yet each was distinctly different. ...
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Graeter's
140 Breckenridge Lane
896-9952
http://graeters.com
https://facebook.com/GraetersStMatthews
Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen
3737 Lexington Road
893-3303
http://piekitchen.com
https://facebook.com/homemadepiekitchen
The Comfy Cow
1301 Herr Lane No. 118
Westport Village
425-4979
http://thecomfycow.com
https://facebook.com/thecomfycow