This Ocean Springs candy shop’s ice cream will transport you to Georgia & New Orleans
Kilwins has been serving its sweet menu to Americans since 1947 and has opened its doors in Mississippi for the first time.
A new location opened this week in the heart of downtown Ocean Springs and is serving up the ice cream, fudge and candy that has made the store so popular ever since its boom in the 1980s.
If I hadn’t made my way down Washington Ave. specifically for an ice cream cone from Kilwins, I probably would’ve stopped in anyway.
Nestled nearly directly on the intersection of Washington and Government St., Kilwins’ inviting storefront is impossible to miss and almost just as impossible to resist with it’s large windows peering into the fudge-making process.
If you step in without a plan, you may be overwhelmed by the options. Sweets ranging from fudge topping to assorted chocolates line the wall with temptations taking shape in the form of caramel corn, homemade fudge, gourmet cake and caramel-covered candy apples.
Once you make it by the initial test-by-treat, assuming you do, you’re hit with the samples. The infinite free samples of the 24 ice cream flavors offered behind the counter.
Flavors that take you from Georgia peach to cake batter, New Orleans praline pecan to marshmallow s’mores and, of course, chocolate and old fashioned vanilla.
I sampled the peach (elite), s’mores (better than your favorite ice cream) and the Kilwins mud, which was a combination of vanilla, chocolate and caramel.
I ultimately settled on a single scoop of the espresso-flavored ice cream in a chocolate and sprinkle covered cone. It was top tier, no notes.
My only advice would be to not wear white. Or, better yet, don’t eat like a child like I do.
The father-daughter owner duo has clearly done a great job in its opening days with great service from every employee, even when the store became filled with visitors lured by the promise of something sweet.
I’d recommend it to you, but you’re probably already there.
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