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| - Ever see so much liquid chocolate that you just can't decide? This is the place to be. While I'm a big fan of Marble Slab, and Cold Stone, this is different. Choose from several sizes of soft serve ice cream, notably vanilla, maple and orange and chocolate-vanilla swirl (this on can't be dunked), then onto the dunking bar.
Servers dunk your ice cream cone into molten chocolates like salted dark chocolate, salted caramel chocolate, s'mores, milk chocolate, hazelnut milk chocolate, cookies and cream white chocolate, and a half a dozen others. There are also several smoothie and milkshake and drink options, all chocolate-centric. Try the S'mores Hot Chocolate for sure!
It's a chaotic grand opening day, and the place is packed. Kids are getting contact buzzes even before they ingest the sugary confection. Wait times are long, and the staff works through the orders and the errors. This is a big store, where you can buy cans of the various chocolates, and TVs on the walls play several vignettes of how to make your own chocolate party.
You can sample a taste of the various chocolates on disposable spoons. I tried the salted caramel chocolate, and as a chocolate expert I can tell you: this is top quality chocolate! But so many flavour options! So hard to decide! I had a Pecan milkshake....
UPDATE:
I went back the next day to try a cone. I got the petit (middle sized but too big still) vanilla, and had it dipped in the Salted Caramel chocolate. It was not what I expected. Having grown up on the normal "DQ" style thin, crackly dip, I was not expecting to have to bite through a thick armour coating of chocolate. This is a lot like eating a chocolate bar and ice cream cone at the same time. Note this: they dip past the ice cream and catch the rim of the cone. I suspect that as your ice cream melts, this seal would keep the liquid from dripping down your wrist. Smart! Mine didn't have a chance to melt since I am a precision eating machine! That sucker was history in about 9 minutes.
However, I did discover the secret--only buy the "baby size" cones, but get 2 or 3 or 4 of them at the same time and dip them in different chocolates. Only the bottom two sizes are not overkill, but there is a lot of value in variety rather than quantity.
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