monoceros blogsI usually leave the food stuff - reviews and pictures - to my 100 Acre Wood pals, dimsumdolly and overacuppa, but I woke up this morning from a dream about Cold Stone Creamery and I knew I had to write about it before the last of that remembered - imagined? - heavenly taste of brownies and caramel and sweet cream disappears from the synapses.
In Ann Arbor, Cold Stone Creamery sits in a low row of shops in Arborland Mall, which in my freshman year at college was quite dull and dreary. By my senior year, Arborland Mall had a facelift - a huge, new Borders; Bed, Bath, and Beyond; Old Navy... . I'm not sure when Cold Stone Creamery moved in, but I'm sure glad they did.
I've only eaten one of their concoctions but what a wonderful one it was. Founder's Favorite is certainly my favorite, though I guess it can't count as a favorite if I've only had one. One of the pleasures of eating a concoction is watching the staff make it. The guy spaded dollops of sweet cream ice-cream, grabbed a hefty chuck of a brownie, added pecans, poured on fudge and caramel and then mashed it all together before us. We - Frank and Joyce and I - asked to have the ice-cream in a waffle cone, which was perfectly crispy and wrapped in chocolate. We finished the Founder's Favorite in no time. And I believe I could've eaten another. Too bad I didn't. That was my only visit to the Creamery.
According to the site, they're opening up branches in Korea and Japan. Now I wish I had the means to get a franchise of my own.
Posted by Monoceros at August 18, 2006 8:15 AM