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6 Most Instagrammable, Pretty, Colorful Ice Cream Shops in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles has tons of Instagram worthy ice cream shops, you just have to know where to look. Influencers, tourists, LA locals - here is our list for your next perfect social media ice cream pictures! Best Instagram spots in Los Angeles!
6 Best Instagram Ice Cream Spots in LA
You know I love ice cream… especially pretty ice cream pictures! You can go to places like Black Tap and get crazy Freak Shakes for $15 or you can go to a local ice cream shop and get something just as tasty and Instagram worthy! Los Angeles has tons of Instagram Ice Cream shops, you just have to know where to look. Influencers, tourists, Angelinos - here is our list for your next perfect social media ice cream pictures!
Related Post: BEST ICE CREAM SCOOP SHOPS IN LOS ANGELES (Rated, ranked, and map included)
After’s Ice Cream in Venice
Afters Ice Cream
Locations: All over LA (this photo was taken at the Venice Beach location)
Afters Ice Cream has tons of tasty flavors and some are bright in color! Cookie Monster ice cream is blue and tastes amazing, but caution, it will temporarily leave your mouth blue! Totally worth it though. The Venice location is nice with a picture-perfect beach background, however, keep in mind ice cream can melt pretty fast!
They also have witty sayings like, “ruining diets everywhere.”
See more photos in our full review: AFTERS ICE CREAM REVIEW
Little Damage Ice Cream - Downtown LA
Little Damage
Location: Downtown LA - 700 S Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90014
This devilish, black, charcoal waffle cone gives a unique look against contrasting colorful soft serve or bright sprinkles. Flavors often rotate as they make their ice cream in small batches with local ingredients from organic dairy farms and zero preservatives.
See our full review here: LITTLE DAMAGE ICE CREAM REVIEW
Milk Bar LA
Milk Bar
Location: 7150 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046
Shopping in Melrose? Momofuku’s Milk Bar is open in Los Angeles and people are flocking from all over for these tasty treats! Cookies, cakes, and soft serve will leave you happy and full!
Lots of hot pink colors here! Outside there is a cake painted on the side of the building that is a full story high! See it in our full review: MILK BAR REVIEW
Sloan’s Ice Cream Shop
Sloan’s Ice Cream
Locations: Santa Monica and Woodland Hills
These pretty pink stores are vibrant and can be seen a mile away! Inside, you’ll find walls with sprinkles and lollipops with fancy chandeliers hanging. Sloan’s also has amazing ice cream flavors and serves up generous portions!
Bumsan Organic Milk Bar
Bumsan Organic Milk Bar
Location: Koreatown - 534 S Western Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90020
Ok, don’t these pretty ice cream cones just scream Instagram ME!? The colors, toppings, and fancy swirl give these classy cones an edge. Bumsan serves premium 100% organic soft-serve ice cream from the leading organic dairy producer in Korea.
SomiSomi Ah-Boong Fish Shaped Waffle Cone with Ice Cream
SomiSomi Soft Serve and Taiyaki
Locations: Santa Monica, Glendale, Little Tokyo, Koreatown and more!
SomiSomi serves a very special Korean dessert known as “Ah-Boong,” which is a fish-shaped waffle cone with your choice of filling and topped with soft serve.
Flavors include: Milk, Matcha, Ube, Black Sesame and more.
Filling stuffed inside the taiyaki cone include: Custard, Nutella, Red Bean, Cream Cheese and Taro.
Don’t forget a topping like Oreo crumbs, Strawberry, macaron, Graham crackers, Fruity Pebbles, or rainbow sprinkles (always my fave)!
Please note this is not a sponsored post and based on my own personal experience, all thoughts are my own.
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Ice Cream for a Cause from an Ice Cream Doctor
I think I found my dream job, I want to be an Ice Cream Doctor when I grow up! Dr. Maya Warren, known as “The Ice Cream Doctor,” and Mona Lipson have teamed up, using ice cream to make a difference in the world! Also, check out how the heck you can become an ice cream scientist as well as myths about ice cream and healthy eating. An ice cream diet is life!
I think I found my dream job, I want to be an Ice Cream Doctor when I grow up! Dr. Maya Warren, known as “The Ice Cream Doctor,” and Mona Lipson have teamed up, using ice cream to make a difference in the world! Also, check out how the heck you can become an ice cream scientist as well as myths about ice cream and healthy eating. An ice cream diet is life!
Ice Cream for Change
Ice Cream for Change
Ice Cream for Change is a platform created by Dr. Maya Warren, also known as “The Ice Cream Doctor” and the face of ice cream, as well as Mona B. Lipson, AKA Miss Mona Makes Ice Cream, to bring together ice cream lovers and makers advocating for social change and civic action. From dismantling racial injustice to fighting climate change, their goal is to use the power of ice cream (it really does have a special way of bringing people together) as a force for good by helping to raise money and awareness for organizations that are driving solutions and making a real-world impact across the globe.
Learn more by visiting www.icecreamforchange.org
Dr. Maya Warren on HOW does someone become an ice cream scientist?
Anyone can become an ice cream scientist through passion and being determined enough to do it. You can go to college for the pedigree of knowledge in food science or chemistry.
You don’t need to get a PhD. You can get a master’s and have the same distinction, but if you “want to make a solid connection with ice cream to be an ice cream scientist” getting the PhD is one way to go. You’ll never forget all the little details and the impact every single ingredient has on a product in ice cream.
A lot of becoming an ice cream scientist is following your passion to become an ice cream scientist. Work hard.
Work smarter, not harder, and do what you need to do to get to the next level.
Know what you want to do with your degree. If you want to be an expert and consult people, so they call on you to fill certain issues, the PhD helps elevate you.
The road to get a PhD is very different for different people. I would highly recommend people follow what their passion is and figure out what they want to do with your degree.
Know what the PhD behind your name means. When I go to countries and speak, that degree comes with more respect. Getting this degree is just something I did. I never wanted to go back to school, and now I don’t need to!
Dr. Maya Warren on the biggest myths about Ice Cream and healthy eating?
(proof that ice cream is good for you! 😉 Huzzah!)
Not everything on the shelf is ice cream - in the US, Ice cream has to be 10% or more milk fat. So we have all these non-dairy products, which in the science world, we call frozen errated desserts. The word ice cream isn’t on these containers when you look closely at them
Frozen errated desserts - you can make these desserts with any kind of milk. If you don’t want to use cow's milk, you don’t have to, but the fats that are in other dairy products are different from cow fat, so the texture will be different. Depending on what the animals eat, this will change the taste of the milk, making the ice cream taste different too.
Dairy replacers - coconut fat is better than others because it behaves similarly to milk fat. It gives a good texture.
All ice cream at room temperature melts - that has to do with the microstructure of the product. Even if it doesn’t look like it it’s melting, it is. Just at a slower rate because of the ingredients inside of it
Sugar substitutes - Not all ice creams are made the same. They don’t all have the same amount of sugar. If you’re diabetic, going with something with a sugar substitute may be better, but it can mess with your digestive system.
The big word ingredients aren’t always bad - These ingredients help for many different reasons. One being so it doesn’t melt right away. Other ingredients explain why freezer burn happens in some ice cream, but not all.
You don’t have to have a machine to make ice cream! You can control what you put in homemade ice cream. If you want to use alternative sweeteners, you can! You can put real fruit in with some agave or honey, maybe even water. The fruit might be sweet enough to put inside without a lot of sugar! In order to freeze your ice cream though, you do need some sort of sweetener. Otherwise, you’ll end up with something that’s too solid. One way I like to think about it is this: If you live in a cold state, they use salt to melt the snow. For ice cream, you use sugar so it can melt.
National Ice Cream Day 2020
This year, Ice Cream for Change brought the ice cream community together including scoop shops, ice cream companies, and home ice cream makers to help raise funds for organizations leading the fight to help dismantle structural and systemic racism. I saw so many scoop shops including some of my favorites such as MILK, Smitten Ice Cream, Coolhaus, all offering to donate to organizations such NAACP, Center for Healing Racism, Showing Up For Racial Justice, and others advocating for social change & civic action.
What’s next?!
Follow Dr. Maya Warren on Instagram and join her on Ice Cream Sundays for some ice cream fun and great recipes to enjoy with the family! Stayed tuned for more from her!
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10 Travel Bloggers & Influencers you should be following on Instagram 2021
Looking for travel bloggers or influencers to follow that have vibrant colors to brighten up your feed? See 10 unique female travel Instagram accounts you should be following in this post! CAUTION: these accounts inspire wanderlust, getting a new wardrobe, and may make you drool over desserts. You have been warned! ;-)
I tried a few of those follow for follow groups and now I have a bunch of people I don’t know on my feed! I was looking for those amazing accounts with phenomenal travel photos to help add places to my bucket list. I lean towards accounts with bright colors, with influencers wearing clothes that I want in my wardrobe! That’s the point of being an influencer, right? I’ll give them some fun superlatives too!
@spiritedpursuit
Followers: 226k
Lee Litumbe started her lifestyle travel blog, Spirited Pursuit, which is filled with guides and information on travel as well as creating content. She’ll teach you her secrets to influencer success!
Follow @Spiritedpursuit to find her on a giant swing in Bali or swimming with turtles in Tanzania!
Superlative: Most Authentic!
@TheBlondeAbroad
Followers: 557k
Kiki is a beautiful blonde who travels the world managing to find fabulous seaside scapes! She left her corporate job for a life of travel and now has a successful travel blog with travel tips, or even advice on how to be a travel blogger.
Follow @TheBlondeAbroad for far off places and her pup, @goodbaileyboy!
Superlative: Most Popular!
@thesweetwanderlust
Followers: 13.2k
Brittany is my spirit animal! Her wanderlust is inspiring and her desserts are drool-worthy! Her captions are hilarious and have the best puns!
Follow @thesweetwanderlust for pops of color and sweet treats in your feed!
Superlative: The Sweetest!
@ticija
Followers: 69k
“That Ginger in a Dress” is her motto and she has a knack for finding the most colorful places in London!
Follow @ticija for her red hair, gorgeous floral dresses, and bright spots in London - It was so gloomy when I went!
Superlative: Best dressed!
@TravelwithKwen
Followers: 11.8k
Kwen travels the world, but we share the same love for Disney Parks! Most of her destinations are tropical and warm!
Follow @travelwithkwen for dreamy vacations and for a Disney geek out here and there!
Superlative: Most likely to be found with Mickey
@walltraveled
Followers: 36K+
This is a collection of travelers against - you guessed it - WALLS! Beautiful creative, colorful, street art walls can be seen from around the world on this feed.
Superlative: Best Sense of Street Art
@icecreamsaroundtheworld_
Followers: 4400
I post ice cream almost every third post, but you can find ice cream from around the world in almost every single post! Sharing is caring, you might even have a chance to be featured using the hashtag #IceCreamAroundTheWorld.
Superlative: Most Likely to have Ice Cream
@splendid_rags
HOLY BRIGHT COLORS, BATMAN! Leslie only posts the most vibrant backdrops and outfits from around the globe!
Superlative: Most likely to wear bright colors!
@thecarryonchronicles
Followers: 13.4k
I LOVE Elena’s beautiful dresses and photos! Her preset is beautiful and the pops of color add instant joy to my feed! Her bio literally sums up her feed: Endlessly in search of storybook villages & fairytale moments
Superlative: Most like to find Prince Charming
@emilyincolors
Followers: 10.8k
Emily is always traveling fabulous places and finding great eats! She has gorgeous clothes and an amazing appetite, sharing just the right amount of sweets! How do you stay so tiny!?
Superlative: Most likely to be a foodie!
I have a lot to live up to following these ladies! I hope my posts bring light and color into your feed!
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