Lake Highlands - Lakewood | August 2023

DINING FEATURE

BY DUSTIN BUTLER

HANDCRAFTED FLAVORS

we make our ice cream the way it used to be made,” Kellie said. “We’re more focused on the classic avors.” To do that, the ice cream is made daily, Brandon said, using ingre- dients sourced from North Texas farms. In addition to ice cream, the shop also oers chocolate chip cookies using dough from Oak Cli bakery Candor Bread and serves brownies on weekends made with a recipe from Kellie’s family. “Our shop is simple,” Kellie said. “You walk in the door and go to the counter and order your ice cream. If you want, you can sit on the benches and hang out, but it’s pretty much just a simple, special ice cream shop.” With several avors of ice cream to choose from, Kellie and Brandon Stoll suggest three popular avors to try at Parlor’s Handcrafted Ice Creams. Milk and Cookies: house made chocolate chip cookies tossed in vanilla ice cream • Five Mile Chocolate: chocolate from Five Mile Chocolate in Oak Cli melted and mixed into ice cream • Sweet Peach: locally grown, organic peaches mixed with vanilla ice cream • Cold Brew: Freshly ground coee from Oak Cli Coee steeped overnight in grass-fed milk and then blended into an ice cream base Single scoop of ice cream starts at $5.75

Brandon and Kellie Stoll opened Parlor’s Handcrafted Ice Creams in April 2022.

Everything in Parlor’s is made in-house, including the wae cones.

Parlor’s Handcrafted Ice Creams oers several classic avors such as cookies and cream as well as rotating and seasonal avors. (Photos by Dustin Butler/Community Impact)

Parlor’s Handcrafted Ice Creams Lakewood dessert shop serves farm-to-scoop treats A s young Dallas profession-

The couple began to deliver pints of their ice cream in Dallas. “We pretty much blew up from there,” Kellie said. Because the pandemic had forced many businesses to close, Kellie said the rental market was reasonable for a new business, and they opened Parlor’s Handcrafted Ice Creams in the Hillside Village Shopping Center in April 2022 and recently celebrated the store’s one- year anniversary. Many ice cream shops have specialty avors, such as pickle-a- vored ice cream, Kellie said, adding that these avors might bring people in the door, but they usually end up ordering a classic avor. “We’re unique in the sense that

Along with ice cream, Parlor’s sells chocolate chip cookies and brownies.

als, Kellie and Brandon Stoll said they struggled to nd a local dessert shop to their liking. Kellie said she and Brandon had local ice cream parlors in their hometowns and questioned why they couldn’t nd something similar in Dallas. The husband-and-wife team decided to change that by selling homemade ice cream at farmers markets in fall 2019. “We got a little scoop cart,” Bran- don said. “We did that as a proof of concept to make sure people in Dallas were interested.” However, the COVID-19 pandemic halted their plans and, like other business owners, they had to pivot.

Parlor’s Handcrafted Ice Creams 6465 E. Mockingbird Lane, Ste. 465, Dallas 214-281-5057 www.parlorsicecreams.com Hours: Noon-9 p.m. daily

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