July 17th, 2022, is National Ice Cream Day! Celebrate the cool day with Edmonton’s local ice cream shops, trucks, and vendors.
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There are a couple of new ice cream shops new to Edmonton this summer, so you can celebrate Ice Cream Day along with a grand opening or two. And these shops aren’t just focused on your basic cone and cups. You can find unique flavours, cakes and sandwiches, milkshakes, or even a beer float.
There are several fun and tasty ways to treat yourself, friends, family, or coworkers, for National Ice Cream Day in Edmonton!
Twice Cream
Celebrate Ice Cream Day at the newest ice cream shop in Edmonton. Twice’s gourmet selection of classic flavours is coupled with their rotating menu. This summer, enjoy a Vegan Banana Honeycomb, Candied Fennel Passionfruit, or Maple Salted Butternut. Details
Where: 10983 127 Street NW
80 Flavours Premium Ice Cream
With five convenient locations around Edmonton, 80 Flavours Premium Ice Cream is an easy choice for many on National Ice Cream Day- or any day this summer and fall. The easy-to-spot blue trailer has their 80 ice cream flavours from which to choose, but also options like frozen yogurt or sorbet. Flavours include a number of combinations of fruit, chocolates, other desserts, and more. Details
Where:
- 4025 Gateway Blvd NW
- 14717 127 St NW
- 11520 Ellerslie Rd SW
- 8620 159 St NW
- 10910 142 St NW
Kind Ice Cream
Be kind to yourself on National Ice Cream Day. Do so by treating yourself to central Edmonton’s Kind Ice Cream and their list of small batch flavours. Each season, Kind will feature rotating flavours, with this summers’ as the Ice Cream Truck Series. The Series offers up Kind’s take on a drumstick, orange creamsicle, or cherry slush sorbet. Details
Where:
- 9551 76 Ave. NW
- 6507 112 Ave. SE
Yelo’d Ice Cream and Bakeshop
In addition to serving delicious ice cream, Yelo’d offers a Filipino and Asian take on the dessert. The true ma and pop shop serves unique flavours like their signature ube (purple yam), or luxe varieties like Filipino Rocky Road, Match with mixed berries, or black sesame with caramel chow mien. Also on the menu are cookie ice cream sandwiches, vegan ice cream, and cakes. Details
Where: 10150A 82 Ave NW
Groove at Fleisch
Are you a hard or soft-serve ice cream sort of person? For National Ice Cream Day, give Groove’s soft-serve a whirl, a small menu of seasonal small-batch flavours. You can try each flavour on its own or try a swirl of flavours in your cup. Also, on the menu this summer at Fleisch are signature beer floats! Details
Where: 8210 106 Ave NW
Scoop n’ Roll Creamery
The local Scoop n’ Roll ice cream trucks can be found in several Edmonton locations and boast the title of being the first shop of its kind in Canada. The treat is a Thai dessert that uses a frozen pan to mix liquid ice cream with your choice of fresh toppings; it is all then laid out flat on the pan and rolled into convenient loaf shapes and served in a cup. Details
Where:
- 13154 137 Avenue NW
- 3414 Gateway Boulevard
- 375 St. Albert Trail
- 9908 170 St NW
- 13530 Fort Rd NW
- 1109 James Mowatt Trail SW
- 2020 Sherwood Dr
MishMash Parfait & Ice Cream
Scoop n’ Roll fans in Edmonton can try even more frozen goodness from the company with their two MishMash Parfait/Ice Cream Trucks. This isn’t a rolled treat, but a light and airy whipped frozen dessert of parfait topped with soft-serve ice cream. The flavours offer yummy combinations of fruits, nuts, sweet sauces like chocolate and caramel, or candies, and even cereal. Details
Where:
TRUCK: 4025 Gateway Blvd NW
STORE: 9920 137 Ave NW
Made by Marcus
Venture down the alley sidewalk beside 104th Street to find what is likely a lineup to Made by Marcus. Dubbed as some of the best ice cream in Edmonton, Made by Marcus continues to impress this summer, just in time for National Ice Cream Day; check out their newest flavour, from the help of the local Seachange Brewery, Prairie Fairy! Details
Where: 10426 82 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6E 2A2
Blaster’s Ice Creams & Cakes
The local Millwoods Blaster’s is a lot more than ice cream and cakes, although they have mastered those two desserts. They offer a full café menu of drinks, sundaes, milkshakes, soft serve, and incredible custom ice cream cakes (prefect for treating a large group on National Ice Cream Day). Details
Where: 1067 Knottwood Road East NW
White Rabbit Ice Cream
Treat yourself to a cup or cone of White Rabbit’s small batch ice cream this July 17th. Then find their ice cream truck hopping between Kinsmen and Root 107 parks for the rest of your summer. Their flavour rotation includes classic flavours, and fun flavours with a little extra on top. Details
Where: Root 107 and Kinsmen Park
La Carraia Gelateria Cafe
So, La Carraia do not actually sell ice cream, but its Italian cousin: gelato! The ingredients are close, but the preparation of each dessert is where the differences lay. Gelato will have a lighter and fluffier texture, as a result, but is still a delicious way to cool off. And you can try La Carraia’s gelato in 24 different flavours! Details
Where: 10067 109 St NW, Edmonton, AB T5J 0J7