From Alexander the Great enjoying frozen ices flavored with honey and nectar to Montezuma sending runners into the mountain to add snow to his fresh drinking chocolates, humanity has had a craving for frozen treats throughout history.  Nothing better satisfies that desire than ice cream.  Regardless of your political viewpoint, I think we can all agree on one of the greatest Presidential decisions of modern times:  Ronald Reagan, in 1984, making the third Sunday in July, International Ice Cream Day.  We have used Blue Bell Ice Cream from day one.  Not only is it the freshest, most flavorful ice cream that we could get our hands on but the company culture and history is a true Texas story.  If you haven’t yet been to Brenham and taken the factory tour, we highly recommend it.  It’s there that you will learn their rich history and how the ice cream that you eat today was grass yesterday.  Yep, they believe in freshness.

At Holy Cacao, we had an idea born from making our Cake Balls.  See, we believe that the best Cake Balls aren’t made as the result of a bad cake.  We believe that you start with the cake.  Make it from scratch with the best local ingredients possible.  Then, we cut off the edges of the cake, since the most moist and decadent part of the cake is the center, and continue on with our Cake Ball process that you’ve read about here before.  Our dilemma was, “we can’t waste these cake edges!  They have to be good for something!!”.  So, one night as we were craving ice cream ourselves, we thought, “what if we mixed the cake and ice cream together?”.  We were having reminiscent thoughts to having bowls of cake and ice cream and fondly remembering the last bit of the bowl.  You know, the part where the ice cream has melted and has cake bits mixed in.  Well, that was always our favorite part!  And just like that…voila!  The birth of the Cake Shake had occurred.  Today we offer Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream and Dutch Chocolate mixed with either our Red Velvet Cake, Chocolate Cake, Wedding Cake or Carrot Cake.

Additionally, we have satisfied the modern Montezuma with our Frozen Hot Chocolate.  We start with our imported Swiss chocolate base (one of our few non-local ingredients), mix in milk, cream and a few other ingredients until it melts into our super rich and luxurious Hot Drinking Chocolate.  Then we mix it with Blue Bell’s Dutch Chocolate Ice Cream and crushed ice to produce a drink that Montezuma himself would run to the mountain tops for…the Holy Cacao Frozen Hot Chocolate.  He may prefer our Mexican variety which infuses a simple syrup (made locally from scratch) based on ancho chilles, cayenne and cinnamon.  You might prefer the Peppermint Patty which infuses fresh peppermint into our Frozen Hot Chocolate.    All of them beat a plain old chocolate shake any day.

Regardless of your preference, Holy Cacao is a great place to celebrate International Ice Cream Day.  For more on the day and the history of ice cream, check out this well written story here.