The weather today was quite warm. Several of my colleagues and the bloke were complaining that it was "too hot" *gasp!* today, but I enjoy this weather. This is the perfect temperature for me. I love the sunshine and not having to cover myself in many layers to try to keep myself warm; winter, on the other hand, I'd rather skip. This is the perfect weather for ice cold lemonade (or lemon water), sorbet, ice lollies, and ice cream. Ice cream is the topic of this post, and I chilled off with one of these today. The venue is Soft Serve Society, located at BoxPark in Shoreditch.
The Instagram-able ice creams are the current London rage with Milk Train (which I visited earlier this spring and covered here) being another popular ice cream venue. The craze at the moment is to put cotton candy (candy floss) around the ice cream. Of course, the two do not mix, but it looks awesome.
Soft Serve Society have a range of different ice cream sundaes and milk shakes (which they call Freak Shakes) available to purchase. The ice cream flavours are vanilla or matcha, but they do sell a "flavour of the day" too. The Freak Shakes go all out with many of them including toppings such as slices of cake, cotton candy, popcorn, jumbo marshmallow, chocolate shapes, cookies, and more. I dislike milk shakes, but I managed to get a sneak peek of a couple of Freak Shakes that a couple of other girls ordered.
Today was actually my second visit to Soft Serve Society. I also visited it on Easter Weekend. The weather was a bit grey, but it was warm enough to enjoy ice cream. I had one of the pre-made ice creams this time, dubbed the Cloud 9. The Cloud 9 consists of vanilla ice cream with a cloud of cotton candy floating on top. Popping candy and Pocky biscuits were placed on top of the ice cream with strawberry pieces floating on top of the sugary cloud. It looked very pretty.
Today's visit inspired me to purchase an ice cream cone in a black cone. Yes, they have black cones. The image is at the top of this post. I choose vanilla ice cream with strawberry pieces and a chocolate shape. It was delicious and melted very quickly in the temperatures today.
Soft Serve Society have a loyalty card, so I can imagine trying a few more of these in the coming weeks, as long as the nice weather is here to stay. Also, there is a range of toppings available, including: biscuit pieces, nuts, bubblegum, sprinkles, meringue, waffle, granola, honeycomb, caramel, pastry, flake, ginger, popping candy, and more.
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