Cold Stone

One of our favorite places for ice cream is Cold Stone Creamery. If you’ve never been, here’s a short lesson. They have ice cream of various base flavors (from vanilla and chocolate to fun flavors such as cake batter or seasonal favorites like dark chocolate peppermint), and a multitude of “mix-ins” (candies, fruit, cookies and syrups). You pick your ice cream, then you pick your mix-ins and then they put it all on a “cold stone” (a slab of granite that is kept frozen, by some feat of engineering that is unknown to us) and mix it up until voila, super premium, delicious ice cream, made to order!

We stopped at the Hudson Cold Stone for a pick-me-up. It’s always tricky deciding what flavors to go for. Sweet Cream with Oreo’s mixed in? Cheesecake with raspberries? Mint with fudge? After long deliberation, we figured it out. Decadent dark chocolate with black cherries for Eric, Coffee ice cream with Heath bars mixed in for Andrea (a standard favorite) and Cotton Candy with chocolate chips for the kids.

It was a beautiful day so we decided to eat outside. The ice cream was as expected - absolutely fabulous! Cold Stone is always a winner. Eric’s combo of the dark chocolate and cherries will be going on the permanent roster, Andrea’s coffee/heath never disappoints and how can you go wrong with cotton candy AND chocolate chips. Two “Love It” scoop sizes, and two kid’s scoop sizes came to about $12. Yes, perhaps a little spendy for ice cream, but worth the splurge once in a while.

1005 Pearson Drive

Hudson, WI 54016
www.coldstonecreamery.com