Ice Cream and Frozen Custard in Madison, WI: scoop shops, campus dairy, Mexican-style and Culver's

Scoop shops around Madison

• Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream (468 State St.; also 2322 Atwood Ave., 2531 Monroe St., 554 N. Midvale Blvd., 555 S. Midvale Blvd., 6079 Gemini Dr., 202 N. First St. at the Madison Public Market, plus Fitchburg, Middleton and Sun Prairie): ten shoppes in all. Sundaes include the Caramel Badger and Happy Camper, shakes include the Cruncheroo and Dirt Cake, and there are floats and ice cream cookie sandwiches. Its site says sugar cones, cake cones, Joy waffle cones, oat flavors and Italian ice are vegan, and there's a vegan shake made with oat milk.
• Calliope Ice Cream (3241 Garver Green): creative flavors like Lemon Lavender, Brandy Old Fashioned, Mexican Hot Chocolate and Hot Peanut Butter.
• Good News Ice Cream & Cafe (117 King St.): a downtown shop with an ice cream flavors menu that includes a non-dairy section, plus a coffee menu and lunch.
• Ice Cream Social (2421 University Ave.): a small shop where you can order online for pickup.
• Kilwins (208 State St.): Original Recipe ice cream alongside Mackinac Island fudge made on site, caramel apples and caramel corn.

On campus

• Babcock Dairy Store (1605 Linden Dr.): UW-Madison's dairy store, with about 20 flavors on hand, like Levylicious Salted Turtle, plus pints, half-gallons, ice cream cakes and cheese. It's cashless.
• Daily Scoop in Memorial Union (800 Langdon St.): hand-scooped ice cream with sundaes like the Double Turtle and Hot Fudge Sundae, shakes and malts, root beer floats, Italian ice and mochi.
• Daily Scoop in Union South (1308 W. Dayton St.): scoops of Babcock Dairy and Chocolate Shoppe flavors, the same two signature sundaes, shakes and floats. The Union's pages list hours that follow the university calendar, so check before you go.

Mexican-style ice cream and paletas

• Milin's Ice Cream (2251 Independence Ln.; also 3050 Cahill Main in Fitchburg): ice cream made with fresh fruit, paletas, the Ezquimal (ice cream dipped in chocolate and topped with sprinkles or nuts) and chocolate-dipped frozen bananas.
• Paradise Ice Cream (4552 Monona Dr.): traditional ice cream in flavors like pecan, coffee and Oreo, specialty flavors like pine nut, pistachio and Gansito, non-dairy sherbets, water-based paletas and a mangonada.

Frozen custard

• Culver's (7206 Mineral Point Rd.; 4401 Cottage Grove Rd.; 1325 Northport Dr.; 2102 W. Beltline Hwy.): the Wisconsin chain with Fresh Frozen Custard on the menu and a posted Flavor of the Day. More Madison-area locations are in Middleton, Verona, Waunakee, McFarland, DeForest, Sun Prairie, Stoughton, Oregon, Mount Horeb, Cross Plains and Cottage Grove.

Cafes and restaurants with ice cream

• Icki Sticki (410 D'Onofrio Dr.): a coffee and ice cream cafe with a banana split and brownie sundae on its site, lattes like the Harvest Maple and Caramel Brulee, and to-go pints. Other shops are in Verona and Mount Horeb.
• Dairyland Family Restaurant (716 Cottage Grove Rd.): a diner open seven days a week; its site mentions pies, cakes, milkshakes and sundaes, and names carrot cake.

Around the area

• McFarland: Lily's Ice Cream Parlour (5923 Exchange St.), inside McFarland House Cafe, scoops 28 Chocolate Shoppe flavors and makes shakes, malts and sundaes.
• DeForest: Woolly's Snack Hut (308 E. Holum St.) serves the Big Woolly, three scoops of ice cream with two churro sundaes, plus Mexican-style hot dogs and Loco Nachos.
• Middleton: Cold Stone Creamery (1650 Deming Way) makes Signature Creations, shakes, ice cream cakes and ice cream cookie sandwiches. Chocolate Shoppe also has a Middleton shoppe.
• Verona, Mount Horeb and Sun Prairie: Icki Sticki is in Verona and Mount Horeb, and Chocolate Shoppe is on N. Grand Ave. in Sun Prairie.

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