Uchiko’s rotating ice creams and sorbets tend include playful interpretations on savory delights. Case in point: a black garlic sorbet that dashed onto a past menu just long enough to delight naysayers. Currently, there is the sweet and salty chocolate popcorn ice cream, served with black pepper macarons and earl grey salt.

Owners Jessica and Gary Wu got inspired with the scraps of Easy Tiger bread leftover from sandwiches, and viola, the toasted bread soft serve was born. To top the delightfully malty and sweet treat, crumbled toast pieces are caramelized with sweet, brown butter for a luscious garnish. Soft serve flavors here always rotate, so look out for other stunners like milk black tea and the stinky but sweet durian.

Fixe has a knack for reinventing the Southern classics and dessert is no different. Black sesame ice cream is nutty and sweet in all of the right ways, shining bright as the star of the show in a deconstructed key lime pie, served with avocado mousse, caramel sorghum, and toasted meringue.

Arguably, the moniker is the strangest element of this vegan scoop shop’s customer favorite, which comes with a pink vanilla base (colored with beet juice) and sprinkled with chewy bits of Skittles and rainbow sprinkles, because that’s what it would look like if unicorns left this behind.

To be fair, this one is not an ice cream flavor, Per se. But with a name like that, how could we leave this off of the list? This milkshake number begins as most do at the grownup ice cream shop, with a boozy ice cream. Whiskey ice cream is blended with banana liqueur, chocolate, and peanut butter. Make it “funky” by adding a bourbon whipped cream.

An herbaceous take on classic chocolate, Teo’s dark chocolate gelato seems to open its eyes and wake up when met with piney, minty rosemary. Pro tip: add olive oil for extra nuttiness and richness.

Pastry chef Amanda Rockman’s take on ice cream is classic and familiar, but always come with a twist. This flavor is strangely nostalgic with a combination you can’t quite describe with notes of coffee, cinnamon, and orange, but you definitely want another spoonful.