Not technically ice cream, but this creamy custard is good enough to hold its on amongst the ice cream. These custards, made with organic local ingredients, are churned with decadent flavors like pecan praline, peach cobbler, and dewberry. Score your own carton at Antidote Coffee or either Phoenicia location.

Traditional flavors get a Texan upgrade at this popular creamery, known for its flavors like milk chocolate ice cream made with Convict Hill oatmeal stout, and coffee made with beans from Houston’s own Amaya roasters. Dairy free? Swing by for the chai tea coconut.

This tiny stand in the Heights creates some of the most refreshing raspas and frozen mango drinks in town. Score a fruity raspa topped with ice cream or chamoy, then snack on Fritos chili pie and elotes for a bit of savory balance.

Known for its crazy confections piled high with candy and infused with wacky flavors, Magnolia’s Ice Cream & More is definitely doing the most. Choose a few scoops of ice cream (vanilla is an excellent blank canvas) and add fresh fruit for a healthy vibe, or plenty of gummi worms, sour candy, and a thick drizzle of chamoy if sugar is what you crave.

This Montrose sweet shop offers frozen treats in a variety of inventive flavors that are constantly changing, including coconut rum gelato and coconut curry cashew sorbet.

A secret family cookie recipe combined with freshly made, richly flavored ice creams makes for the deliciousness that is a Smoosh ice cream sandwich. And really, is there anything better than a massive scoop of ice cream tucked in between two soft cookies? Nope.

This local favorite in the busy Don Huang Plaza offers so much more than durian ice cream, although it's worth the try for more adventurous tongues. Don't sleep their large bowls of shaved ice with fresh fruits drizzled with condensed milk and giant scoops of ice cream on top.

An Instagram wonderland in Asiatown, Aqua S is known for its blue hued, salty-sweet sea salt soft serve. There’s also a rotating flavor on offer that changes frequently, and each cone can be crowned with a halo of cotton candy or shower of Pop Rocks for the perfect shot for the ‘gram.

Perfectly creamy and richly flavored, the ice creams at Cloud 10 run the gamut from classic to wacky. Cool off with a scoop of cafe sua da, or Vietnamese iced coffee ice cream, or consider the wildly refreshing lemon and mint sorbet.