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Houston Shop’s Crawfish Ice Cream Becomes a Peak-Season Sensation

The shop’s seasonal scoop now draws lines with repeated sellouts during peak crawfish months.

Overview

  • Red Circle Ice Cream in Houston brought back its crawfish flavor for spring and reports frequent sellouts.
  • The scoop uses Cajun seasoning, butter, and garlic for a sweet-salty base and comes topped with a whole crawfish.
  • Owner Nickey Ngo says the ice cream base is cooked with live crawfish to pull out flavor, though no crawfish meat is mixed in.
  • Customers describe a creamy texture with mild heat, and the shop suggests using the crawfish shell as a spoon.
  • The flavor tracks Gulf Coast crawfish season from late January through July and fits a wider trend of seafood-inspired desserts.