The Best Ice Cream Shops in Broken Arrow, OK

 

As we settle into the spring season and Broken Arrow warms up, you can now comfortably enjoy cold treats and desserts. A few scoops of vanilla ice cream topped with sprinkles on a cone seem like a heavenly escape as you take a break from your daily routine. Or perhaps treating yourself to new ice cream flavors sounds like an ideal Saturday afternoon plan.

Broken Arrow has many ice cream shops with different assortments of cold treats and desserts to delight your taste buds. We compiled some top favorite ice cream shops that you can try out while running errands, on road trips, or if you just want to explore excellent ice cream flavors around the city.

Braum’s Ice Cream & Dairy Store

“If you want it done right, do it yourself” is the idea that has guided Braum’s Ice Cream & Dairy Store since its opening in 1968. Braum’s takes pride in its creation process by sourcing its dairy directly from its farm to make its wide range of over 100 ice cream flavors. Investing in the creation has paid off as people can’t get enough, as evidenced by the presence of four stores in Broken Arrow. These stores are at 804 N. Elm Place, 2201 South Aspen Ave., 20200 E. 81st St., and 4702 S. Elm Place.

Braum’s stores operate from 6 a.m. to 10:45 p.m. on a dine-in and drive-through basis. While at the Braum’s stores, you can treat yourself to its famous ice cream sundaes or signature flavors such as Bordeaux cherry amaretto and cappuccino chunky chocolate. Alternatively, you can treat yourself to a guilt-free indulgence of one of Braum’s delicious no-sugar-added flavors like the pistachio almond. This year, Braum’s has six new ice cream flavors and four new sundaes that promise pure decadence, including sopapilla cheesecake, Neapolitan cookie, and peach triple berry.

Andy’s Frozen Custard

Since March 19, 1989, Andy’s Frozen Custard has given quality custard treats. It serves its sumptuous treats from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Andy’s Frozen Custard prides itself on product quality, customer service, and community involvement, which you can attest to when you taste its signature frozen custard. As a free-standing restaurant, it offers drive-through and walk-up service of its treats using the freshest ingredients they prepare and serve on the same day.

Andy’s Frozen Custard has both year-long and seasonal treats on its menu. All-year treats you can enjoy include vanilla and chocolate cones. Seasonal treats on their menu include pumpkin pie concretes and strawberry shortcake sundaes. This spring, you can drive by and enjoy spring favorites such as the black raspberry chocolate chip and the strawberry shortcake quart combo. If you want to stock up on some treats, Andy’s can sort you out with take-home treats such as chocolate chip cookie dough, mint chocolate chip, and butter pecan.

Big Dipper Creamery

This fairly new creamery makes small batches of hand-crafted ice cream in its shop at the Mother Road Market food hall, 1124 S. Lewis Ave., Tulsa. Big Dipper Creamery has been in operation since 2017 and offers a new and fun range of ice cream flavors such as honeycomb lavender, Walk at the Fair, and ooey gooey butter cake. This ice cream store also offers ice cream sandwiches and ice cream cakes at their shop on a dine-in and take-away basis.

The creamery operates from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. from Tuesday to Sunday, so you can pop in within these hours to grab a taste of their ice cream and desserts. The Big Dipper uses locally sourced ingredients to experiment with their ever-changing ice cream menu. The consistent availability of some elements ensures that some ice cream flavors such as Madagascar vanilla bean and milk chocolate are available all year round. Flavors such as the roasted strawberry are seasonal because the strawberries are organic Oklahoma grown and therefore available in late spring and summer.

Bagelarium & STG Gelateria Broken Arrow

Bagelarium & STG Gelataria is an Italian-owned creamery located at 217 S. Main St., Broken Arrow, and it has been in operation since March 2018. Per the owner’s definition, a specialty and tradition guarantee (STG) process signifies absolute adherence to the original recipes. Gelateria means gelato and together, the two, STG and Gelateria, pay homage to the traditional process of making gelato. It involves using the same process, tools, and ingredients to make delicious authentic gelato.

It opens from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and closes at 9 p.m. on all other nights. The shop prepares small batches of gelato daily to ensure that customers enjoy its authentic taste and freshness. You can enjoy your scoop of their delicious gelato flavors, such as stracciatella gelato and Biscoff, at the shop or the curbside pickup point as you go about your day.

The Rustic Gate Creamery

On 101 W. Main St., Jenks, lies the Rustic Gate Creamery ice cream shop that offers a family-friendly, colorful, playful environment and has a charm that can make you feel like a kid again. Rustic Gate was unveiled in January 2017, and it serves over 16 unique Ashby’s ice cream flavors, such as the beloved Superman, sea turtle, and ultimate peanut butter brownie.

Ashby’s Sterling Ice Cream is a family-owned company based in Michigan that has made its award-winning ice cream since 1984. Rustic Gate also won an award in 2019 for being a finalist in the 2019 Tulsa Best in the World contest. The shop opens its doors daily at 1 p.m., just in time for lunch breaks to cool you down or give you an instant pick-me-up when resuming your errands. Other cold treats that you can enjoy are sundaes, milkshakes, and drinks such as hot cocoa and vanilla chai.

Broken Arrow has plenty of ice cream shops that can serve what your taste buds crave this season. If the shops in this article prove anything, it’s that we all have varied tastes that ice cream shops try to accommodate with new flavors. So, what is your favorite ice cream shop or flavor in the city? Interact with us and tell us why you love it.

 

 

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