SAN FRANCISCO
Skylite Snowballs It was a blistering day when Katie Baum had a fierce craving for a snowball, the sno-cone-meets-shave-ice of her native Baltimore. So she bought a '75 ice cream truck, had it rebuilt, and hired a Chez Panisse pastry chef. Track her down on Piedmont Avenue, near the Clare-mont Hotel, or at Oakland's First Fridays to try one doused with strawberry or Meyer lemon-ginger syrup. To go totally Baltimore, top your snowball with Katie's homemade marshmallow cream, skylitesnowballs.comEAST BAYSANTA CRUZSmitten Ice cream freaks have been following Robyn Goldman and her Radio Flyer wagon around the city since she first wheeled it out nearly two years ago. It toted her hand-welded invention, Kelvin--a liquid nitrogen-powered ice cream maker that whirs and pours fog like something out of Willy Wonka's inventing room, super-freezing five or so ingredients into a single scoop of absurdly dense and creamy salted caramel or blueberry candied coconut ice cream. Now, Smitten has opened up a real shop--well, sort of. It's in a converted shipping container in Hayes Valley at Octavia and Linden Streets. smittenicecream.com
The Penny Ice Creamery Santa Cruz has never suffered a lack of icecream. But what it hasn't had, until now, is a place that makes its own on-site. No secret ingredients here; you can watch them mix up the small organic batches. Pull up a stool in the vintage-chic parlor to dig into a scoop of strawberry pink peppercorn, or cherry balsamic. Nice day? Grab a Penny Pop, dipped in dark chocolate, and take it for a ramble around downtown. 913 Cedar St.; 831/204-2523.
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