Ontario’s Favorite Ice Cream Shops

Ontario’s Best Ice Cream Scoops & Shops

Warning! This year, a hot summer and limited events will make you want to eat a lot of Ice Cream.  Ontario has a lot of fun physical activities to help you justify eating this creamy, rich and delicious stuff. Ice cream is the answer to summer, you may say.

Enjoying Ontario is one of the best things to do. Ontario summer activitiesIce cream is a great treat. There is a lot of amazing ice-cream to be had. 

Ice cream is a favorite of people of all ages. Ice cream is typically made with cream or daily milk that has been flavoured and sweetened with a wide range of flavors. This mixture, which may contain eggs, is homogenized, pasteurized and then frozen. Churning will prevent ice crystals from forming, resulting in a smooth and silky mixture.

Ice cream can be stored in the refrigerator until it is served. There are many ice-cream recipes that can be made at home, including some tasty and easy to make ones. There are many dairy-free options available for those with allergies and vegans. They use coconut milk or other dairy alternatives.

However going out for ice cream has become a highlight of the summer for children, families and couples’ date nights, everyone really. It’s not just ice cream either, don’t forget about gelato, sorbet, soft serve and what is maybe harder to find, vegan and dairy-free ice cream. With everyone staying home, making close-to-home or short trips in Ontario this summer, personal favourites have been determined in all parts of the province and it’s getting serious. 

Best Ice Cream Shops Near Me

Ice cream has a rich texture and flavours. Flavors can range from the simple and delicious like vanilla or choclate to the bizarre and mind-blowing like salty bacon, or even melon mixed with prosecco. These flavours are sure to awaken your taste buds. Ontario’s seasonal flavours are even better when they include Ontario strawberries, blueberries, raspberries or other summer berries. The truth is that they are all amazing and there are no bad flavours of ice cream. If you watch Top Chef, you know it can be done with foods like paté. Everyone’s palette is different.>

The method of serving ice cream also plays a role in the equation. If you only have the ice-cream cone, you can choose between regular, waffled sugar, dipped and sprinkled, or any other combination of your imagination. You can eat it in a bowl, a cup, and even cookie ice-cream sandwiches that you can make with one hand. Ice cream is without a doubt one of the best frozen desserts introduced to the culinary industry. Amen.

Tell Us Your Favourite Ontario Ice Cream Parlour

It’s time to list the best ice cream places in Ontario by region and create (and protect) a solid go-to list. You may also have difficulty finding dairy-free or Vegan ice cream. Please help us to make this a comprehensive list so that everyone can find the right Ontario icecream shop for them. For now, this list is made from a few of the author’s personal favourite ice cream shops and favourites found in other articles online. These will be the first on the list until more information is gathered. 

Cottage Country’s Favourite Ice Cream Brand

Cottage country is where the popular isţă was born. Kawartha Dairy. This 100% Canadian business, which is over 80 years old, was founded in Bobcaygeon by the same family and is still operated today. The company has expanded to have ice-cream shops throughout Ontario. They also sell ice cream in grocery stores by the pint so that it can be enjoyed at your home. 

Pro tip – it’s worth stopping at their ice cream shops for way more flavours with names like “Bear Claw”The following are some examples of how to use “Maple Sugar Shack”. These flavors are sure to satisfy your sweet tooth. Some of their locations have drive-through services. 

Here are a few tips from ice-cream lovers. The local favorite for soft serve in Georgian Bay’s heart is Wyevale Jug City. And, the Georgian Grill offers a vegan soft-serve that is rare and highly sought after. 

 

Cones & Sundaes in Fancy City Ice Cream Shops

If you’ve been to Clifton Hill lately in Niagara Falls or the city of Toronto, your eye was likely caught by the bright and silly Sweet Jesus ice cream shop or one of the On the hill, you can find a variety of ice cream sundaes.. These are always the favorites.

Toronto also has its famous ice cream, even just the names Bang Bang Ice Cream & Bakery or Dutch Dreams are fun and deliciously refreshing!

Are these the best? We will put it to the test and know ToDoOntario fans will fulfill and answer anyone’s questions. Not only that, but the result will be a list of awesome places to get ice-cream this summer, and any summer. 

It’s easy to do, just brag about your favorite ice cream.  Just tell us your favourite place to go get ice cream, near you, near your cottage, on-the-road – whatever! If you’re dairy-free or vegan, let us know! 

Here are some of the nominations.

Kawartha Dairy – Huntsville
Cowan’s Dairy Bar – Brockville
Scoops – Mississauga
Ice Cream Dreams – Bala
Huckleberries Chocolatiers – Sudbury
Downtown Ice Cream Shoppe – Merrickville
Lorna Dunes Ice Cream – Wasaga Beach
Slickers Ice Cream – Picton / Prince Edward County

We will continue to add to this list. Can you help us? Yes you can! See below! 

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