It may have been the priciest per inch, but if I’m paying at least $35 for a custom ice-cream cake, I’d rather spend on something unique and made-to-order.<\/p>\n
The Cold Stone Creamery dessert had actual cake, the most velvety ice cream, and endless customizable features, including more than 35 mix-in options and a dozen ice-cream flavors.<\/p>\n
Above all else, this chain’s ice cream tasted the best, in my opinion. <\/p>\n
And, although I was skeptical at first, the springy devil’s food cake made this dessert feel complete.<\/p>\n
Plus, it could reasonably be left out for a bit if needed, thanks to the substantial bottom layer. I couldn’t say the same about the Dairy Queen or Baskin-Robbins cakes, which began melting the minute they hit the plate.<\/p>\n
Practicality-wise, the small size option was another perk. Because of its impressive height, the 6-inch cake felt like more than enough for a typical group of eight or so.<\/p>\n
All of the chains had tasty cakes, but for a truly personalized experience and a chocolate-fudge-crunch-vanilla situation done right, I’d pick Cold Stone every time. I can forgive the price tag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may have been the priciest per inch, but if I’m paying at least $35 for a custom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[110544,110547,1533,31042,91032,4843,110545,110549,110546,62668,47700,9,24,63,122,124,123,110548,110550,16528,3442],"class_list":["post-289222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-baskin-robbin","tag-blue-letter","tag-business-insider","tag-chain","tag-cold-stone","tag-dairy-queen","tag-dry-layer","tag-first-stop","tag-flavor","tag-happy-birthday","tag-ice-cream-cake","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-smallest-size-celebration-cake","tag-waxy-frosting","tag-winner","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}