Cary Dairy Ice Cream Café – We Cary Memories;

We Cary memories;

Welcome to Cary’s premium ice cream stop, open year-round! We proudly serve Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream – a super-delicious, super-premium ice cream from Madison, WI – as well as soft serve, slushees, ice cream cakes, delicious in-house and locally-baked goods, and our own special blend coffee from Conscious Cup! We are proud to offer a variety of Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Vegan, Kosher and No-Sugar-Added options.

~ Voted 2022 Best Ice Cream/Frozen Custard in McHenry County ~ Voted 2023 One of The Best Ice Cream/Frozen Custard in McHenry County ~

Specials & Upcoming Events

Click & Browse below to learn about seasonal specials, upcoming events, special hours and more!

2024 Salvation Army Angel Tree location!

Help us reach our 2024 goal of providing 250 Angel Tree Tag gifts to those in need in our community!

Angel Tree Tags will be available for pickup beginning Monday November 11th. Please return your Unwrapped Gift & Tag by Thursday, December 12th and receive $2 off any pint!

Here's the scoop on what makes our ice cream super-premium!

Our ice cream has 14% butterfat and only 35% overrun (the amount of air that is pushed into ice cream when it’s made). Standard overrun for ice cream is around 100%, which means that the ice cream is made with 1 part air to every 1 part cream. Our ice cream is 35% overrun, meaning Chocolate Shoppe adds 1 part air to every 3 parts cream.

The result? Super creamy, smooth, rich ice cream that will melt in your mouth.

now offering ice cream cakes and PIEs!

All cakes are made in-house at Cary Dairy with super-premium ice cream from Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Co.. Pick up an 8″ (serves 10-14) or BabyCake (serves 2-3) today! Ice Cream Pies also available (Serves 7-9)!

We have the largest custom sprinkle color collection around! We love making memories!

*Please allow 24-48 hours for all custom cake orders*

No time for custom? No Problem. We always have beautiful stock cakes available in store.

voted best of the fox 2024
best ice cream/frozen custard!

We are so honored and blown away at this award! Thank you all who voted for Cary Dairy; we couldn’t do it without our amazing community.

Sincerely, The Cary Dairy Team
~ We Cary Laughs, We Cary Memories, We Cary Dairy ~

Proudly serving Chocolate Shoppe
Ice Cream

We offer super-premium ice cream, made in Madison, Wisconsin. Come try our flavors in a scoop, sundae, shake – or even take some home in a pint or quart to-go!