Marble Slab Creamery is an ice cream chain that resembles Cold Stone Creamery in their interest in providing not ice cream, but mixtures of ice cream with other products, called “mixins”. This makes their introductory products a bit more expensive than say, Carvels, as their one scoop “Original” runs about $3.50 (with one “mixin”). Like Cold Stone Creamery, there were only about 15 ice cream flavors available that day. Also like Cold Stone Creamery, they have a very cold stone slab on which they mix ice cream with whatever bit of goodness you choose. Notable however are the list of “tested” mixes already available. These “Tasty Creations” were combinations of ice cream and one or two additional mixins from the “Original”.
It was mid day when I went with my daughter. She ordered a Peanut Butter Crunch ‘Tasty Creation’ on a waffle cone and I ordered the ‘Tasty Creation’ White Chocolate Raspberry Swirl, also on a cone. There was a line that day and it took a while to get there, but our server was both efficient and gracious and the final product quite good. She was low on White Chocolate that day, so used some Sweet Cream Ice Cream to make up the difference. Personally, I really didn’t notice. Caramel, chocolate, and raspberry flavors dominated in my cone, and my daughter’s cone had the nutty flavor she craved.
The cones were melting quickly once we got outside; and serving size is large. So we ate what we wanted, discarded the rest. It’s good ice cream, and a nicely done mixin concept. They also offer smoothies and ice cream cakes, and you can cater their services as well.
Verdict: Very nice ice cream based products. If you’re willing to pay the small premium for their Tasty Creations, it’s well worth it.
Marble Slab Creamery
1690 Scenic Highway North
Snellville, GA 30078
(770) 982-1049
July 19, 2009 at 10:52 pm
The staff there is very nice. I’ve never actually tasted their ice cream though. They let us in one time when they weren’t yet opened, and for whatever reason (I forget) we didn’t stay to order. I did notice the prices were quite high.
The servings at Coldstone are very large, and the staff there was very nice.
But our family is moving more toward buying a 2 gallon “bucket” of vanilla ice cream at the grocery store for about $3.50, and spending another dollar or so for a multi-pack of Reese’s peanut butter cups. Chop up the peanut butter cups, mix in with the ice cream, and our whole family of 6 can enjoy our home version of “Sonic Blasts” for the price of one at the restaurant.
I know, we are cheap, but it tastes great, and it’s NOT difficult to do.