In early 2010, we featured a fledgling company that was dripping with potential. Milkmade was only six-months old at the time, its membership hovered around 50, and its ice cream delivery service was restricted to a handful New York City blocks. Cut to two years later and it’s fair to say that Milkmade is a sensation.

Membership for this subscription-based ice cream company has skyrocketed, delivery has expanded, and the press is screaming for its creamy goodness and creative pints. Their recipe for success is a clever mix of sustainable, organic ingredients foraged from local New York producers (think Mast Brothers Chocolate and Grady’s Cold Brew), blended with an innovative approach to what ice cream is supposed to be. A recent flavor of the day, Plantain Chocolate Chip, was made with Rockway Taco plantain chips painted in chocolate then swirled into Mast Brother’s chocolate ice cream. Other pints include Salted Watermelon, Pop Tarts Ice Cream sandwiched between handmade strawberry pop tarts, and Follow The Rainbow, a brown sugar vanilla ice cream blended with crushed almond rainbow cookies. So if you live in the New York metro area and you have $30 extra a month, you too could have Milkmade’s hand-sourced and hand-crafted ice cream hand-delivered to your doorstop. Now, I’d say that’s definitely something worth screaming for.

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If you can’t bare the lines but crave a creative pint to dig your spoon into, then LA Creamery Artisan Ice Cream may be more your style. Delivered to your doorstep, this all-natural, organic ice cream collection has decidedly more adult overtones. Just check out their line of boozy ice creams in flavors like Chimay, Moonshine + Caramel Corn, Absinthe, and Tennessee Whisky.

Or, if you can never have too much bacon, dig into Porc Phat, made of Spanish Iberico lardo, Asian pears, hazelnuts, and mint gel. At LA Creamery, treating “ice cream as an art form” is their motto – literally. That’s not too surprising considering it’s the brainchild of the same guy who brought Los Angelenos’ Umami Burger.

When pork-riddled, boozy, cupcake-sandwiched ice creams are just not what you’re craving, there’s no shortage of cool (pun intended) spots in town. The shaved ice cream at Sno is causing quite the stir andBeachy Cream’s surf-inspired lot always charms us too. Whatever you go for, you’ll need little excuse to polish your cone off. [Red Velvet close-up photo by Christine Chiao for Serious Eats; Boozy Ice Cream photo by Bakers Royale]

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Political awareness is not exactly your standard ice cream topping, but it’s what you’ll find when you line up at New York’s new Guerrilla Ice Cream street cart. This pioneering mobile project has paired gourmet frozen custards to political movements around the globe in an effort to temper the trendy with a little social responsibility. Flavours correspond uniquely to their chosen uprising and include such combos as the Velvet Revolution from the Czech Republic, a lemon poppy seed ice cream topped with spiced cookie crumbs and lemon zest.

Or, there is the Red Corridor from India, made of a chai masala blend sprinkled with sliced almonds and candied fennel. To really bring the message home, all profits are channeled into supporting marginalized communities in NYC and abroad. With flavours so enticing and business plans so noble, who wouldn’t want to knock back some conflict study with their afternoon cone?

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If you’re shvitzing in all this summer heat, reach for an ice cream with some chutzpah: Chozen Ice Cream. Created by Manhattanite Ronne Fisher and her two daughters, Chozen is an all-natural ice cream inspired by the sweets and desserts of their favorite Jewish holidays. There’s cinnamon ice cream with homemade raisin walnut rugelach, or there’s the Matzoh Crunch: vanilla ice cream with chocolate and caramel coated matzoh sprinkled with kosher salt. Coconut macaroon, chocolate babka, and apples and honey are also on Chozen’s list of artisanal ice cream sweets. All ingredients are sourced from local dairy farms and ‘authentic Brooklyn bakers’. Now, that’s kosher.

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Craving marshmallows and mint in your chocolate ice cream, or cayenne pepper and cinnamon in your vanilla gelato? Well, for whatever unique flavor combination you crave, check out Perfect Flavor: a new online gourmet ice cream shop that lets you invent your own pints of ice cream, gelato, and sorbets. Choose a base first, like sweet cream or mousse, then add in a simple flavor like chocolate or coffee, and finish it off with all the artisanal add-ins and sweeties you desire.

Spicy aztec chocolate, brioche, and toasted pistachios, are just a taste of the chocolatey, fruity, nutty, herby, or savory options available. Once your order is complete, name your concoction and Perfect Flavor mixes the handmade ice cream, one order at a time. And their serious about this one-at-a-time freshness: order an apple pie in your gelato, for instance, and it gets baked fresh in the oven before making it into your fantasy flavor. Confidence in that final flavor is key, however, as the pints come at a hefty price.

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