Pretty Cool Ice Cream
Key Lime Piecicle – Key Lime Pie Ice Cream, Cinnamon Graham Cracker Shell
Caramel Horchata Crunch Dipped Pop – Horchata Ice Cream, Golden Caramel Shell, Crispy Rice Pearls
Peanut Butter Potato Chip Dipped Pop – Peanut Butter Ice Cream, Chocolate Shell, Crispy Potato Chips
Making a home in Logan Square since late-Summer 2018 Pretty Cool Ice Cream is the brain-child of Bang Bang Pie and Biscuits founder Michael Ciapciak in conjunction with Dana Cree, the pair’s focus on frozen treats forgoing the traditional “Scoop Shop” and instead tackling Ice Cream on a stick.
Now socially distanced during COVID-19 precautions, bleacher-style seating and photogenic interior closed to the public while two young men serve guests from a small window, it is via online ordering or a menu taped to glass that selections are made, dipped versus undipped and Vegan or otherwise comprising some thirty flavors.
Certainly not the Ice Cream Truck of yesteryear, prices between $3.50 and $5.50 justified by entirely Gluten-free onsite production of each and every Bar or Pop, additional piece of mind comes from designer packaging such that the edible component of each is unexposed to both employees as well as other customers.
Not a good spot for the indecisive, but freezing each pop in such a manner that one guest can manage at least two Bars without worry of melting, this visit began with a collaborative “Piecicle” – the idea of Bang Bang’s Key Lime retooled into something of Popsicle rather than Ice Cream with recognizable tartness but generally underwhelming texture.
Improving henceforth, two Pretty Cool signatures selected in lieu of seasonal options, it might be expected that the author of “Hello My Name Is Ice Cream” would have a way with flavors, the intensity of both Horchata as well as Peanut Butter dialed way up while coatings fractured to the tooth before slowly dissipating and leaving behind the crunchy components.
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