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Cue obligatory National Ice Cream Day post ->

In honor of National Ice Cream day, and National Ice Cream Month (thank you Ronald Reagan!), I have rounded up some of my favorite old-school, homemade ice cream shoppes for you:

1. Snowflake Homemade Ice Cream, Riverhead, NY

This is my absolute favorite ice cream parlor to visit when I am on Long Island’s East End! It’s so cute and they have over 20 flavors of hard, homemade ice cream in addition to soft serve and sorbets. They also have a chocolate dip cone! Whenever I go, I order their mint chocolate chip ice cream in a sugar cone – yum! On those nights where I am looking to quench my thirst, their lemon sorbet is out of this world. Snowflake is right around the corner from Roadhouse Brick Oven pizza, which I mentioned in my last post, so the next time you’re in Riverhead, have yourself a great meal at this local’s two favorite places for pizza and ice cream 🙂

2. Magic Fountain Homemade Ice Cream, Mattituck, NY

So, to be honest, I haven’t been to this ice cream parlor in about two years, but I remember them having awesome mint chip, too! ( I am a creature of habit, what can I say?!) When I was younger, my family and I would stop here on the way back from visiting Orient Point State Park and the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum. Magic Fountain also has a great dip cone, and have over 30 everyday flavors of hard ice cream, 5 seasonal flavors (cocounut avocado sounds so interesting!) and 3 vegan flavors – like whoa! How will you choose?! Some of my other favorites here have been their rainbow cookie and cake batter -sugar high anyone?

3. Dari-Land Ice Cream, Riverhead, NY – No website but check them out on Yelp:

Not to be confused with Dairyland the chain, Dari-Land is also on the rotation for favorite mom-and-pop ice cream stops when I visit the East End of Long Island. when I need a chocolate fix, I go there for their chocolate, chocolate chip hard ice cream in a sugar cone with chocolate sprinkles. Yes, I know it’s a lot of chocolate 🙂 Their mint cookie and soft serve vanilla are also super great! This is a family owned business, too, so its a cute little place. It’s right off the main road, so no excuses not to try it:)

4. Ice Cream Delights, Lincoln NH – No website, but check them out on Yelp!

This cute ice cream stand was also a summer staple when I would camp in NH as a child. This place gives HUMONGOUS scoops – their single scoop is like a double. I love the peppermint stick and they also have good soft serve, too, like the rest of the places I’ve listed here. I think I have a pattern – this place is also next to a great pizza place!

5. Plaza Ice Cream Parlor, Magic Kingdom, WDW

And last but not least, enough said….everything tastes better when you’re eating it at Walt Disney World! Disney describes this place as “sweetly nostalgic” and I couldn’t agree more! The inside of the ice cream parlor is adorable, as is the rest of Main Street USA. The smells alone would make you want to gobble a cone or two…or three. I found my favorite flavor when I was there recently and it came complete with a mickey waffle cone topper! The Plaza Ice Cream Parlor also has ginormous sundaes that look delicioulsy daunting. I would recommend checking this place out between castle and purple wall selfies!

On that note, go get yourself some fantastic ice cream to celebrate this awesome holiday! ~kk