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Best restaurants
Laurie Mitchell of Baltimore gets ready to enjoy ice cream from Broom’s Bloom Dairy in Bel Air. PHOTO BY LLOYD FOX
BEST FROZEN TREATS
BROOM’S BLOOM
DAIRY
1700 S. Fountain Green Road, Bel Air.
410-399-2697. bbdairy.com
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If you like the ice cream, just step outside
and thank the herd.
“We are 100% cow-to-cone,” said Kate
Dallam who, with her husband David,
owns the Broom’s Bloom Dairy cafe and the
220-acre dairy farm that surrounds it. For 19
years, they’ve served up an eclectic choice of
ice creams that trip the taste buds of sweettoothed patrons young and old.
There’s a chalkboard on the wall scrawled
with the day’s 18 flavors, a carousel of homemade treats that can change by the hour. There
are seasonal favorites, like pumpkin ginger
snap, sweet corn and peppermint crunch,
as well as standbys, which include a molasses-based butter pecan ice cream and the
popular peanut butter, with a texture so dense
“it’s like scooping concrete blocks,” Dallam
said. “People love it.”
To date, she has created more than 100
flavors, the latest being a fig-and-walnut
butter ice cream, and a tangy one called peach
habanero. No matter the menu, customers say
they’ll queue up here ‘til the cows come home.