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Cool down this summer with a sweet, frozen treat from one of the following businesses located in the Greater Houston area. This list is not comprehensive.
Social Sweets
This locally-owned ice cream shop sells ice cream, waffles, coffee and pastries. The business also has affogato—an Italian dessert consisting of ice cream or gelato and topped with hot espresso.
Connies Frozen Custard
This dessert shop offers frozen custard in a cone, cup, float or freeze—fresh vanilla custard and soda blended together. These treats can be topped or blended with fruits, candies, cookies, nuts and syrups.
Freezy Frenzy
Try a craft Thai rolled ice cream from this sweets shop, located in both Katy and Jersey Village. Customers can get a treat called the coffee break, which has rolled coffee-flavored ice cream, chocolate Pocky sticks and vanilla wafers cookies.
La Michoacana Auténtica
This ice cream shop has homemade fruit paletas, or popsicles with fresh fruit and ingredients imported from Mexico; homemade ice cream; and waffle cones. The shop's ice cream and waffle cones are made daily.
SnoDreamz
This business’ snow cone menu features both standard favorites and specialty flavor combinations, with options for additional toppings including chopped pickles, Kool-Aid or sweetened condensed milk.
The Baker’s Son
This family-owned Filipino bakery also has a beverage bar with ube and pineapple-strawberry flavored shakes and halo-halo—a popular Filipino dessert featuring crushed ice, evaporated milk, sweetened beans, saba bananas, fruit slices and a scoop of ice cream.
Mango Mango
Located at the Katy Asian Town marketplace, this business fuses sweet soups traditional to Hong Kong with modern desserts. These include waffle ice cream sandwiches and mango juice sago, which is a mix of tapioca pearls, mango, coconut milk and condensed milk with a scoop of ice cream.
Gelato Rossa
This specialty gelato shop in Bellaire serves various flavors of Italian ice cream, including Madagascan vanilla, Sicilian pistachio, Belgium chocolate, cookies and cream, double chocolate chip and sea salt caramel. Guests can visit the chocolate fountain and choose from white or dark Callebaut chocolate to fill the bottom of an ice cream cone or drizzle onto a gelato cup.
Kahuna Joe’s
Located in League City’s Historic District, this shop offers Hawaiian-style shaved ice, which is made of finely shaved ice, tropical fruit syrups and scoops of vanilla ice cream. Syrups are handcrafted daily without artificial sweeteners or high fructose corn syrup.
The Snow Cone Lady
In addition to fresh juices and fruit with chamoy, this local snack shack offers mangonadas, homemade condensed milk, ice cream sundaes and shaved ice treats.
Dottie's Gelato and Italian Ice
This sweets shop has Italian ices and gelato that’s handmade in house with all natural, gluten-free ingredients. Available in cups, cones, floats or topped with espresso.
Yeti Eddy
The shaved ice and candy shop offers milkshakes, premium ice creams and more than 50 varieties of bulk candy, gourmet cookies, coffee and espresso.
Jovanna Aguilar, Cassandra Jenkins and Kelly Schafler contributed to this report.
