The Franklin Fountain

MINT CHIP and VANILLA ice creams covered with chocolate syrup, FLUFFY MARSHMALLOW glaze and Creme de Menthe finished with homemade whipped cream and a mint green maraschino cherry.

Our own breath freshener!

Two dipperfuls of PHILADELPHIA vanilla bean ice cream suffocated in FRANKLIN FOUNTAIN HOT FUDGE and topped with our fresh whipped cream and a cherry... a true American icon.

Wilbur's dark chocolate is churned SMOOTH with fresh local milk, cream and butter, then cooked ON-SITE in our antique copper candy kettle. Honest ingredients are the best policy for flavor.

A dark chocolate brownie surmounted by COFFEE ice cream bathed in a DOUBLE-SHOT of ESPRESSO and peppered with chocolate covered espresso beans, sweet coconut flakes and finished with a pretzel rod.

Will surely ELECTRIFY even the most enervated.

A mountain of CHOCOLATE or VANILLA ice cream ERUPTING with chocolate brownie pieces, CASCADING with hot fudge and BLANKETED in malt powder. A dollop of whipped cream indicates her smoking signal.

A true display of Pomp-eii circumstance.

RUM RAISIN and PISTACHIO ice creams covered with pecans and pistachios SMOTHERED in hot caramel and STUDDED with Praline bits.

This Franklin Fountain original is as pretty as a sweet-talking LOUISIANA GIRL in her Sunday best.

FRESH PEACH ice cream DOUSED with rasberry puree, sprinkled with diced almonds and finished with a collar of RUFFLED whipped cream. Following soprano Nellie Melba's performance of Wagner's Lohengrin in 1893, French chef Auguste Escoffier was moved to create an exquisite dessert for Dame Nellie.

This is a variation on Escoffier's famous dessert.

ROCKY ROAD ice cream coated in thick peanut butter sauce and paved with crumbled salt pretzels. William Dreyer and Joseph Edy concocted the first batch of rocky road ice cream in 1929 following the great stock market crash to give consumers something to SMILE about during the impending Depression.

{recipe taken from The Dispenser's Formulary, 1910}

"...put a slice of BRICK VANILLA ice cream on a 6-inch plate. Cover the ice cream with fresh, sweetened, and slightly mashed strawberries, and over these put sweetened whipped cream; top off with two whole strawberries and serve with two nabisco wafers. Sells for 20 cents. {F. Varney}

A sensual body of rich CHOCOLATE ice cream melting under pure marshmallow MADNESS and dressed with our colorful ORANGE flower Marmalade. This seductive sultana is crowned with candied orange PEEL, making a tart a-peel to her patron's darker side. Watch out, she'll take you for a rollicking ride!

A fire-and-iceworks display of TUTTI-FRUITI ice cream exploding with fruits & nuts and reigned in a Bordeaux CHERRY liqueur. A pair of Kirsch-soaked ladyfingers watch CORDIALLY, upon a throne of whipped cream.

In 1897, Escoffier premiered a related dessert for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.