Ice Cream News
Burleson ice cream shop is doing the creamiest fruity soft-serve
Mr. Henry's Real Fruit Ice Cream
An ice cream shop in Old Town Burleson Square is doing an ice cream unlike any other in DFW. Called Mr. Henry’s Real Fruit Ice Cream, it's a shop that opened this summer at 136 S. Wilson St., in a cute building that was most recently a beauty salon but was originally someone's home when it was built in 1955.
"Henry" is owner Henry Lazcano, a native of El Paso who worked in IT before opening the shop with his daughter Alex.
Henry's does what he describes as New Zealand-style ice cream, in which ice cream is combined with fruit, then blended using a special machine, which extrudes it as a flavored soft-serve, which you can top with cookie crumbs, sprinkles, or drizzles such as pineapple ice cream topped with coconut, graham crackers, and sweetened condensed milk.
Soft-serve is very much abuzz these days — but it's rare to find one in which ingredients are blended this way, as well as blended to order, right before your eyes.
The machine they use is a Little Gem, which is made in New Zealand; it can be seen in action here. According to the New York Times (always a questionable source), "New Zealand-style" ice cream started being a trend in summer 2023, and there are a few shops in the U.S. in cities like Portland and Denver who have their own Little Gems and are churning out fruity, creamy treats.
Building-your-own is part of the fun, and you can choose from a variety of fruits and toppings, although Mr. Henry's also offers suggested combos such as:
- hokey pokey: vanilla with crunchy toffee
- banana Oreo bliss: banana, Oreos, ice cream, with chocolate drizzle and rainbow sprinkles
- Blueberry Bonanza: banana, blueberries, ice cream, chocolate drizzle and Graham cracker dust
Fruit options include peach, strawberry, blueberry, mixed-berry, pineapple, mango, banana, and raspberry.
They have a variety of unique syrups such as chamoy and "La Lechera" (condensed milk), and in addition to regular vanilla ice cream, they also offer a vegan version. Prices range from $4 for a one-scoop "mini" to $8 for a vegan triple-scoop, which you can get in a cup or waffle cone.
One fan described it as "like whirl-a-whip from the 90s only with fruit instead of candy."
They also serve traditional ice cream, milkshakes, floats, such as an orange soda float made with vanilla ice cream.
