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    Sweet News

    Dallas neighborhood ice cream maker gets sweet deal from Luscher's Red Hots

    Alex Bentley
    Mar 8, 2015 | 12:40 pm
    Red Velvet in Reverse ice cream from Lake Highlands Creamery
    Red Velvet in Reverse ice cream from Lake Highlands Creamery.
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    A locally made ice cream that captured the taste buds of its Dallas neighborhood now has the attention of one red-hot restaurant in Deep Ellum. Lake Highlands Creamery, which had been selling quarts online only, now makes ice cream bars for Luscher's Red Hots.

    The company comes from ice cream aficionado Sean Brockette and his "ice cream scientist" neighbor Mike Middleton, who pride themselves on making high-quality ice cream and staying true to the sense of community in Lake Highlands.

    "When I was in high school, I worked at both the Casa Linda Theater and Steve's Ice Cream," Brockette says. "My family is from Rhode Island, and there's a famous ice cream shop in the town that we used to vacation in called the Newport Creamery. We would go there as a family, and that would be the best experience ever."

    "I mentioned to [Brian Luscher] in passing that I was going to step up the ice cream thing," says Lake Highlands Creamery's Sean Brockette. "He said, 'I need ice cream bars for my hot dog shop.'"

    When Brockette and his young family moved to Lake Highlands in 2008, his interest in ice cream was rekindled.

    "Mike and I used to 'food challenge' each other, and he brought over some homemade ice cream that he had made that was awful," Brockette says. "All those old memories started coming back, and I thought, 'Man, I bet I can still make good ice cream.'

    "I made my first batch of chocolate peanut butter and brought it over to his house, and he was blown away by how it tasted, the texture and that you could make that kind of ice cream in just a Cuisinart frozen ice cream maker."

    Through the years, Brockette continued making ice cream for family parties and neighborhood get-togethers. Each tasting garnered more appeals for him to start an actual business — which he did last year.

    Since November 2014, Brockette has been selling quarts online at LakeHighlandsCreamery.com. People within a 5-mile radius of their home base off Audelia Road can choose between six to 10 flavors, priced at $9.99 per quart, and the company personally delivers the ice cream two days later.

    Although Brockette and Middleton are always dreaming up new flavors, some current favorites include You're Bacon Me Crazy, maple ice cream with peppered bacon chunks; Red Velvet in Reverse, a cream cheese ice cream icing base with red velvet brownies mixed in; and the Dirty Belgian, salted caramel ice cream with Belgian chocolate and Belgian waffles.

    As the popularity of the ice cream grows in Lake Highlands, Brockette is giving serious consideration to opening an actual storefront.

    "Right now we're trying to get this off the ground," he says. "We've got a pretty good local presence; we've given stuff away at carnivals and farmers markets and other events, but we're trying to secure a space."

    Brockette has received guidance from friend and local restaurateur Brian Luscher, owner of The Grape and recently opened Luscher's Red Hots.

    "Brian has been influential to me in getting things up and running," Brockette says. "Just seeing all the setbacks that they've had and all the challenges, I've learned a lot. It's best to go slow and do everything right than go fast and get shut down."

    Luscher has given him more than guidance, though; he's also provided him with a business opportunity.

    "I mentioned to him in passing that I was going to step up the ice cream thing," Brockette says. "He said, 'I need ice cream bars for my hot dog shop.' I had never made one before, but I told him I'd see what I could do.

    "So I spent three months trying to perfect those ice cream bars. We figured out the perfect process, so now he's the proud owner of the only Lake Highlands ice cream bars in town."

    Among the ice cream bars on sale at Luscher's is one called the Mother Lode, featuring Sweet Nilla ​(bourbon vanilla bean) ice cream wrapped in a house-made chocolate shell and topped with pretzels, potato chips, sprinkles, pecans, peanuts and toffee.

    If Brockette opens a storefront, it will join a pretty short list of local ice cream shops: Henry's Homemade Ice Cream in Plano, Sweet Firefly in Richardson and Carnival Barker's Ice Creams (which will soon have two locations in Dallas). There's also Paciugo Gelato, which is now a nationwide presence, but it started in Dallas.

    While he tries to make further inroads toward opening up his first shop, Brockette will continue serving his neighborhood through school carnivals, special events and home delivery.

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    Slushies News

    Best frozen drinks in Dallas for summer tippling

    Raven Jordan
    May 22, 2025 | 6:35 pm
    Loro slushie flight
    Loro
    Loro frozen slushie flight

    As Memorial Day approaches, the temperatures climb. Dedicated tipplers know that the best way to beat the heat is with a frosty drink. This list of frozen drinks being served at Dallas restaurants and bars hits them all: margaritas, frosé, milkhakes, and slushies.

    Here are some of the best, newest (and in some cases, limited-edition) frozen beverages for the summer in Dallas:

    Aire Libre
    Poolside restaurant at The Ritz-Carlton Dallas, Las Colinas serves up a Baja vibe and coastal menu. They offer a frozé made with Argyle brut rosé, Aperol, prickly pear, passionfruit, and lemon. The drink is available for $16.

    Cane Rosso
    Neapolitan-style pizza and a frozen rosé might just be a match made in heaven. Local pizzeria chain offers a frosé featuring strawberry, vodka, rosé, and lemon for $10. Available at locations in Dallas, Arlington, and Fort Worth.

    Hampton Social
    Buzzy coastal restaurant in downtown Dallas loves rosé to the point they have 20 options on their wine list. But it gets better— the restaurant has a signature Hampton frosé made with Tito's Handmade vodka, rosé, peach purée. The drink is $17.

    Hampton Social roseHampton Social rosé in 3 formats: regular, sparkling, and frozen.Hampton Social

    José
    Mexican restaurant on Lovers Lane has a frozen watermelon margarita available for a very limited time. It features watermelon flavoring, Socorro Blanco, seasonal puree, and lime juice for $16. Available through Memorial Day weekend from May 22-26.

    Loro Asian Smokehouse & Bar
    Loro's expansive, yet laid-back picnic table setup inside and out is tailor-made for summer nights. Loro has a broad menu of frozen drinks, from a frozen spicy watermelon margarita, to boozy Vietnamese coffee, to mango sake slushees. Can't decide? Try a frozen slushee flight for $14.25.

    Mi Cocina
    Just about every Tex-Mex has a frozen margarita, but this middle-class chain is home to what is arguably the most famous: the Mambo Taxi, a margarita swirled with sangria featuring Sauza Silver Tequila, lime juice, sangria with pinot noir, brandy, and fruit juices. The drink is $10.

    Milkshakes and slushie drinks

    Black Tap
    Victory Park restaurant and bar has a collection of eight "crazyshake" milkshakes with unconventional toppings such as cake slices and cookie sandwiches. The cinnamon bun shake, priced at $18, features a whole cinnamon roll on top. There's a vegan option on all shakes for those steering clear of dairy. For a smaller, boozy take, get a shake shot with soft serve and choice of vodka or whiskey base for $9.

    Lazy Dog
    Restaurant chain has a new frozen cocktail: the prickly pear sloshie. It's inspired by founder Chris Simms’ adventures in Wyoming, and blends Pantalones Organic Reposado Tequila, prickly pear purée, agave nectar sweet and sour, triple sec, and a salt rim. It's $15. Available for a limited time.

    Pinstack
    Eatertainment venue is known for bowling lanes and arcade, but they also have all kinds of shakes, both boozy and 32-ounce nonalcoholic ones stacked with toppings. There are three alcoholic adult shakes such as the boozy berry and chocaholic, both with Smirnoff vodka; or the churrochata, with Fireball. Boozy shakes start at $14, nonalcoholic shakes are $10. Available at Plano, Las Colinas, Allen, and Westlake locations.

    Sonic
    Drive-thru chain is bringing back slushies in two fab flavors: watermelon andlemonberry, which is swirled with real strawberries and a squeeze of lemon. They also offer half-price shakes — with flavors like strawberry, hot fudge, and peanut butter — daily after 5 pm. Slushes start at $2 for a small, shakes start at $4 for a small.
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    Katherine Stinson contributed to this story.

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