Kings Cross Ice Cream Festival

 This weekend the clever fellow on the left hosted the first ever  ice cream festival in Kings Cross, in the lovely new Granary Square. Just around the corner from us, the new development which is transforming the patch of land at the back of Kings Cross station next to York Way (and over the Eurostar lines)  was a great place to hold the event, although I'm clearly biased! The family event went down very well, and some ice cream  vendors sold out completely on the first day. Kids enjoyed the dancing fountains and petting zoo, and I particularly enjoyed meeting this chap (I love goats).

The Granary Square "beach" complete with sand carving sofa

With many different ice cream sellers to choose from I was fascinated by the liquid nitrogen-frozen Custom Creams, especially as they were offering peanut butter. This was really yummy and very creamy, though for me they could have added even more PB. The OH went from freeze-dried bacon and maple syrup, which has crushed up bits of bacon crumbled on top. He was keen to move on and try more flavours, so hit up the Sorbitium van (run by the former head chef of the Petersham Nurseries) for the weird (and he thought wonderful) combo of roasted banana and halva. Not my cup of tea, but he enjoyed the mushy, sweet mix which I have a feeling would go down well with small children requiring a sugar hit. 

After all that, he still had room for the "healthy" option of fro yo from Daisy Green, which we are big fans of. The cute ice cream van pimped with grass on top and replete with very smiley cow (Daisy, obvs) was touting fat free treats, but with the addition of oreos, popping candy and gummy bears to name but a few. To follow on the naughty theme, he plumped (sorry) for a topping on brownies, marshmallows, flaked almonds and chocolate fudge sauce, ending up with a concoction that was probably equally as calorific as any of the other choices. Still, it tasted good.

Yum fro yo-although not so healthy with brownies, marshmallows, nuts and choc sauce!

I was after a salted caramel affair to end my treat session, and after overhearing whispers from other patrons I went for La Gelateria's Salty Caramel, with some Nocciola (hazelnu) both of which were delicious. Their chedder cheese and black cherry seemed to be a hit too, and if I had another day to sample their finest I'd be trying a raspberry sorbet/pina colada sorbet medley, just to be that little bit healthier you understand! I really hope the organisers bring this festival back, it was a great 2 days, and the space lends itself to foodie gatherings and little markets. Go on people, make us locals happy.