Sweets Ice Cream — Restaurant in Erie

Time for another update!!

It's back to FIVE STARS FOR ME!!!! Woop woop!! All of the original reasons that we loved Sweets still apply!! I called the supplier of Little Man ice cream and all but Space Junkie are naturally colored and flavored!

I took my kids there a couple of weeks ago and there were all sorts of flavors that they tried and loved making the decision of what to get especially difficult!!

THANK YOU THANK YOU to the owners who brought back the small-town, family-friendly feel to our favorite ice cream shop!!

Now we'll have to drive from Firestone (since we moved out of Erie a little over a year ago)...but it'll be WELL WORTH IT!!

We're back to being devoted fans of SWEETS ICE CREAM!!!

Now to have a serious talk about the pralines and cream...

Reply to owner's response: I will happily give Sweets another try! Does new supplier also eschew all artificial colors and flavors? And Salted Maple Pecan sounds perfectly delicious!

I have never been more sad to update a review. It went from five stars to one and here's why.

If you are a foodie, a stereotypical Millennial, then this ice cream shop is now 100% for you. Sadly, it's no longer for my family. The flavors that they changed to are the weird, "mint and cucumber" variety that appeals to a very different crowd.

I took my daughter in probably a year ago now (could they have changed back to "normal" flavors since? Yes...I'll eventually meander in to look), she tasted four or five flavors and we left without purchasing anything.

My kids no longer ask to go. I am heartbroken.

Oh, how I love Sweets! Let me count the ways!

First, they hire high schoolers and give many of them their first jobs! It makes me smile to walk in and see young fresh faces welcoming me!

Second, they have a great selection of yummy ice cream flavors. Honorable mention goes to their Pralines and Cream. Why oh why do they not have this ALL the time? Without fail?

Third, most of their flavors are without noxious, petroleum-based artificial colors and flavors (how much vasoline do YOU like in your food?)! Since our family avoids them, we can't just go to DQ or Cold Stone or BR. Yay us!

Fourth, they're not a franchise! They're a locally-owned mom & pop establishment. I support small businesses whenever and wherever possible!

Do you get the picture? I could go on and on! Love, love,...

We picked his bakery because it was close and convenient to make a birthday cake for my four-year-old twins. Unfortunately from the start the process it was very disappointing. I came instead of an order about three weeks before the party. I did not hear back from them and had to follow up with them a week before the party. When I finally got touch with somebody they assured me they could get the cake to look just like a picture I had shown them ( a round cake with an upside down ice cream cone, looking like it was dripping ). However, when the cake was delivered part of the cake was damaged, and there was no ice cream cone on top dripping off. I was so disappointed with the way it looks I asked for them to take it back and at least put the ice cream cone on top and to write "happy birthday." When they returned an hour later after the party had already started it looked as if my four-year-old had actually written "happy birthday" and again the cone on top still looked nothing like what they said they could do. In fact with the delivery the first time the man was somewhat rude when I expressed my concerns about the cake. It was also not cheap. It was $55 and I was expecting something of that a professional would produce. I was trying to support my local business and was excited for the cake they promised to deliver however as I mentioned above we were anything but impressed and actually we didn't even end up using it I was so embarrassed by how it looked. I would not recommend the bakery for its custom cakes. I was overall disappointed with the whole experience from the ordering to the finished product and should've known something was not right with the lack of communication...

Rarely do I go to ice cream shops because of peanut and tree nuts allergies with my son, but there was the block party going on at the time( very busy) and our friends were getting ice cream cones so I gave it a try. Marcus was amazing he listened to my son’s allergy dilemma and before he went to the back of the store to use a never open ice cream container; he patiently asked my son what flavor he wanted, he said Cookie dough. Marcus came back and told my son that they didn’t have that one, but they had Ahoy cookies and cream, my son was so excited to have some other flavor of ice cream other than vanilla that he said with the biggest smile YES ! Great job and amazing customer service...