Your Boston holiday ice cream guide
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The marzipan date orange zest packs an almondy punch. Photo: Mike Deehan/Axios.
Temperatures are finally cooling down, but that won't stop Bostonians from indulging in cold sweet treats, especially with special seasonal flavors on the menu.
Here's your guide to the best holiday ice cream varieties some of Greater Boston's ice cream parlors have to offer.
Gerly's, the Somerville parlor formerly known as Tipping Cow, has flavors like apple cider sorbet, blueberry ginger, bourbon caramel, brandy alexander, chai, Irish stout and snickerdoodle available for the holidays.
If you find yourself traveling west this holiday season, stop by Soco Creamery in Great Barrington for their marzipan date orange zest variety.
- It's marzipan, so get ready for an almond-heavy experience.
Toscannini's on Main Street and First Street in Cambridge has a rotating menu, but be sure to catch their burnt caramel, cardamon fig, brown butter and brown sugar or apple cider sorbet flavors this year.
Cambridge's Honeycomb Creamery has treats like bourbon pecan pie, brown butter oatmeal cookie, cranberry cornbread stuffing and brown butter pumpkin cheesecake.
At Ice Creamsmith in Lower Mills, the old-school parlor teamed with Top Shelf Cookies in nearby Adams Village to create the "Nog-wich."
- It's a layer of Ice Creamsmith's seasonal eggnog ice cream pressed between two of Top Shelf's "The Flood" molasses cookies for $7.75.
- They also have pumpkin, peppermint stick and cranberry white chip flavors while the batches last.
Over at J.P. Licks, the area's dominant local chain, you can try these featured flavors at most locations:
- squirrel nut zipple
- apple crisp
- salted caramel-infused white coffee
- cappuccino crunch
👋I tried the Wild Turkey Bourbon seen here and it was like a fudgier take on their classic rum raisin flavor.