One thing we’ve been blessed with during the whole Ice Cream Tour is beautiful weather. Sunny and hot! Very hot in some cases. Today, we woke up to a little bit of rain.
As we headed to Fernie we were still kind of surprised that nobody makes their own ice cream in Cranbrook.
We were delighted to find out that Happy Cow in Fernie does! Boy, do they ever make their own ice cream.
You NEED to visit this shop in Fernie. It’s outstanding!
Wendy and her husband Dan own this quaint retro shop, ice cream truck and ice cream bicycle cart that they drive around town on hot days. They sell cones, pints, quarts, ice cream cookies and cakes. I’ll take one of each please!
Wendy was even on the radio in Cranbrook talking about our little adventure and they were looking forward to seeing us today, but I think we were even more excited to meet them!
Dan explained to us how they make their ice cream from scratch. Like Wendy says, “If we don’t make it, it doesn’t go in there.”
They have the same ice cream machines that Ben and Jerry’s and Häagen-Dazs used when they first started.
They even let Danica make ice cream! So unbelievably cool.
Happy Cow has 40 flavours, all home-made in small batches with local, organic, and REAL ingredients. They even make their own marshmallows for their ice cream.
I went with Toasted Coconut (which is made with coconut milk) and my daughter had their most popular flavour, Honeycomb, where they replace the sugar in the recipe with honey.
Both of these… BLEW. US. AWAY.
They were flavourful, rich, creamy. You can really taste the difference when ice cream is homemade and made with real ingredients. Our ice cream was maybe a day old.
We also tried samples… I can not tell you how good a sample of the Mint Chocolate Ice Cream tasted. Real mint tastes a lot different from mint flavouring, let me tell you.
With no hesitation, both my daughter and I agreed… an 11 out of 10.
Phenomenal!
I would drive all the way from Calgary to Fernie and back for just one single scoop.
Amazing!
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