Best Ice Cream Sundaes In Cleveland
What's your favorite cold treat? Ice cream or milkshakes? The best cold treats are found in Cleveland and sundaes are one of them. If sundaes, made with hot fudge, whipped cream and a cherry topping, make your summer better, then look to your local shops. The best sundaes are made in Cleveland.
Toft's Dairy Inc
3717 Venice Road
Sandusky, OH 44870
(419) 625-4376
www.toftdairy.com
Toft's Dairy, a business that's been around for more than 100 years, has mastered the art of ice cream. You can pick from pints and gallons or soft serve, but the best way to try Toft's is in the form of a sundae. Located in Sandusky, Toft's is open year round, but the best time to visit is when the sun shines. Order your Toft's sundae with homemade double chocolate almond or old fashioned cookie dough and you'll make that trip to Sandusky more than once. The best part of Toft's Dairy is that the ice cream is that smooth, creamy texture, and lucky for you, there are many flavors to choose from.
Malley's Chocolate Shoppe & Ice Cream Parlor
14822 Madison Ave.
Lakewood, OH 44107
(216) 529-6262
www.malleys.com
Malley's Chocolate Shoppe has been serving its hot fudge sundaes since 1935. While the peanuts, whipped cream and maraschino cherry might be a newer addition, it's the fudge itself that's the real winner. Served warm over your choice of ice cream, this hot fudge is what dreams are made of: sticky, sweet, pure chocolate and none of that artificial aftertaste. Only real cream, chocolate and sugar are melded together in the kitchen to make that hot fudge. Stop in to the Lakewood Malley's Chocolates, the original store, and try a hot fudge sundae for your next birthday.
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Mitchell's Homemade Ice Cream
1867 W. 25th St.
Cleveland, OH 44113
(216) 861-2799
www.mitchellshomemade.com
It's enough that Mitchell's Ice Cream is handmade, uses local ingredients, comes in vegan options and has so many flavor combinations that you still probably haven't tried them all yet, but it just so happens that it has amazing sundaes too. Pick your ice cream, pralines and cream perhaps, with fresh caramel-crusted pecans, caramel swirls in a vanilla ice cream and make it a sundae with a topping like hot fudge, whipped cream, peanuts or pecans and a sweet and sassy cherry.
Sweet Moses
6800 Detroit Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44102
(216) 651-2202
www.sweetmosestreats.com
Sweet Moses, that soda fountain and treat shop on Detroit in Cleveland, is brilliant at making simple food taste amazing. Take its sundaes for example. It consists of a scoop of your favorite ice cream with hot sauce and whipped cream, and you're done. But Sweet Moses kettle cooks its hot sauces and caramel sauces for that succulent extra flavor. Sweet Moses churns small batches of ice cream so its bananas Fosters and salted French caramel ice cream have extra flavor in every bite. Try a turtle sundae at Sweet Moses and you'll slow down for every bite.
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Sweetie Fry
2307 Lee Road
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
(216) 932-2300
www.sweetiefry.com
Sweetie Fry has mastered the impossibly irresistible combination of sweet and savory. This spot makes its ice cream in house with seasonal, local produce and ingredients. Make your sundae from Sweetie Fry a brownie sundae with homemade brownies, sweet ice cream and whipped cream. You can choose from a triple chocolate brownie, rich and decadent, or the classic brownie with chocolate chips for an extra crunch. Add the ice cream, chocolate raspberry marmalade or mint chocolate chip and you'll take some extra time savoring your sundae on Sunday.
Marissa Burke is a happily adventurous wife, mother and runner. Living in Lakewood, Ohio she searches neighboring communities for exciting food and drinks that are good and good for you in the Cleveland area. Her work can be found at Examiner.com.
