Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream just couldn’t arrive in Pasadena soon enough. Why, looking what we’re missing — today’s mint-Oreo delight honoring St. Patrick’s Day! (Image courtesy Handel’s via Facebook)
Ice cream lovers (yes, that would include you) have a new reason to rejoice as one of the most highly regarded ice creams in the world is coming to Pasadena. The shop will open at the former Togo’s site at 3405 East Foothill Boulevard in East Pasadena.
Alice Handel began serving ice cream out of her husband’s gas station in Youngstown, Ohio, back in the middle of a blazing hot 1945 summer.
She made her dessert with old-fashioned recipes, and used fresh fruit picked from her own backyard. Handel’s has since opened shops in California, Florida, Indiana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Oregon, featuring over 100 flavors of homemade ice cream and yogurt, including Elvis, a banana flavored ice cream with Reese’s Peanut Butter® ripple, and Graham Central Station, Graham flavored ice cream with a graham cracker ripple and chocolate covered crunchies.
Okay, that’s two. You’re on your own now.
Handel’s also went viral before viral was a thing, having already been heaped with praise in a number of national publications including USA Today, People Magazine, Chocolatier Magazine, and US News and World Report, all well-known ice cream publications.
Two recently published books—The Ten Best of Everything and Everybody Loves Ice Cream—have both recognized Handel’s as one of the best ice creams in the world.
The ice cream is made fresh daily, one batch at a time, at each location, using products, equipment, methods and recipes exclusive only to Handel’s, using nuts, creamy caramel, deep dark chocolate, fresh fruits and fluffy marshmallows, blended into each batch as it is drawn from specially designed machines.
The new chain store joins six other artisanal ice cream shops in the Pasadena area. When? The company’s tight-lipped, saying only, “soon.”
