Can’t shake that craving for creamery on a hot summer day?
Look no further than the Eagle’s 2015 gold recipient for ‘Best Place to Feed a Sweet Tooth’ than to local sweet shoppe Sweet Temptations.
“We are just so touched and grateful that people would take the time to cast a vote online and recognize how much care we put into everything we do,” said owner Sue Garner, who purchased the business nearly a year ago.
Located at #6-521 First Street West, the chocolate-coated haven has rose to success in its three years of business — even beating out decades reigning ice cream shop, MacKay’s Ice Cream with its all-natural gelato.
Everything in the shop is hand made and created in-house, in small batches.
Garner said that the most common question she gets in her store is ‘what’s the difference between ice cream and gelato?’
She explained that gelato has no unnatural additives or products — only milk and cream, natural flavours and ingredients, churned by a gelato machine that has longer blades to make for a more dense and creamy product. Ice cream machines have shorter blades that work to fluff more air into the product.
Starting out in the confectionary business many years ago — running a shop in Armstrong, B.C. alongside her father — Garner had no plans to get back into the saddle again.
The owner of former Cochrane candy store, Sugar Britches, Garner came across the opportunity to take over her current business less than a year ago.
“I lost my mind and here we are,” she laughed, crediting her strong team, sprinkled with a healthy serving of summer students, for the success of the business.
“Even our mistakes taste good…there’s 100 per cent more bliss in every serving.”
A couple of concoctions in the cooler this summer season include ‘Pretty in Pink’ (tutti frutti ice cream with Nerds) and ‘Triple C’ (chocolate with dark chocolate cookies and white Belgian chocolate chips).
“Because you can never have too much chocolate,” sings the confectioner.
For her lactose intolerant clientele, Garner has a selection of dairy-free sorbets she said have been a hit.
Not in the food for the cool treat? Take advantage of some homemade fudge, handcrafted chocolates or skip the sweets and indulge in a lunchtime croque monsieur (grilled sandwich with bechamel sauce) and loose-leaf tea.
