Kind Ice Cream

At long last we’re in the balmy single-digit negatives! This calls for scoops!

Even though the year’s still new, we’re already hard at work brainstorming and testing flavours for the whole year ahead. So now’s the time to let us know! Which past flavours do you want to see back this year? What are you hoping we create?

This week we had to throw the world’s saddest peace out in the direction of @izzyboot, who has been our manager at Kind for the last year and a half. Izzy’s off on new adventures, and oh, how she’ll be missed. During her time with us she completely elevated our shops and brought a ton (TON) of positivity to our team amid a challenging couple of years. She’s Cold Brew Coffee’s biggest fan, and we’re HER biggest fan. See you soon, pal!

LEMON CLOUD You’ve got to try this bright sunshiny number, one of our most popular flavours of all time. Close your eyes while you eat it and you may even feel like you’re not in the middle of an absolute frozen tundra.

Swipe for a piece of poetry perfect for this winter weather, one of six poems curated by our friends at @glassbookshop. These short winter-themed poems can be found on pints of rotating flavours and feature works by local writers. Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. Her short story Bad Cree won the 2020 Writers’ Trust Journey Prize and her novel of the same name will be released in January 2023 with HarperCollins.

This month we’ve brought back two of our most asked-about rotating flavours, Disco Cookie Dough and Lemon Cloud. These two flavours bright, cheerful and once you’ve tried them they live permanently in the back of your mind. To round it out, we’ve added new vegan (and gluten-free!) offering, London Fog, made with Earl Grey tea and real vanilla bean. As always, you can grab these flavours all through the month!

Our iconic Milk Chocolate Mini Egg us made with a lush milk chocolate base packed with everyone’s favourite candy-coated chocolate. Easter may be over, but Mini Egg is here all month long

It’s Earth Day! Did you know that our Kind cups are fully compostable, along with our spoons and napkins? Each shop has a large green compost bin that sits outside, and all cups, spoons, napkins and food waste from our shop can go into it. Our bins are picked up throughout the week and the waste is turned into healthy soil. It’s one small way that we reduce our environmental footprint - and we all know, the little things add up! #loveyourmother

What a weekend! Thanks to all who stopped in for scoops, pints and pup treats. All signs point to an excellent summer ahead.

We’ve loved seeing your @glassbookshop poetry pints out in the world and hearing what they mean to you. We’re incredibly grateful to the six Edmonton writers who shared their work for this collaboration: Emily Riddle (@emilyjaneriddle), Makda Mulatu (@makhal001), Isabel Yang (@sblyang), Grayson Thate (@grumpywashingmachine), Matthew James Weigel (@spongepoet), and Edmonton’s Youth Poet Laureate Timiro Mohamed (@t.imiro)

New shop, new scoop holders! These beautiful babies were designed and crafted with Canadian marble and terrazzo by local maker @ryspot. Ryan is a concrete wizard who creates furniture, home goods and those beautiful Edmonton bricks you’ve probably spotted out in the world. His wares will be at the upcoming @theroyalbison online craft fair, along with goods by a ton of other fantastic artists and makers. #yeg

Our cheerful cups are 100% compostable (and our spoons are, too!). Photo: @cluuful

It’s another great day for ice cream! This beautiful April weather is just what we all needed. Both shops are open 12-9!

Join our production team! We’re looking to add to our team of hardworking, creative and passionate individuals who work to make the very best ice cream imaginable. If you have high standards, great communication and organizational skills, and experience working in a fast-paced kitchen, we’d love to hear from you. We offer a respectful and rewarding work environment and a competitive wage. AND free ice cream. Email your resume and cover letter to [email protected].

Kind Highlands is open! Putting together this space has been a true labour of love, and a project that we’ve had on deck for over a year. Many hands worked hard to make this happen, from artists to trades to neighbours. Joining the vibrant Highland neighbourhood is a dream and we can’t wait for you to visit!

Sweet treats, sweet words. Kind Ice Cream and Glass Bookshop are teaming up to give you a taste of some great local writing. 6 Edmonton poetsEmily Riddle, Makda Mulatu, Isabel Yang, Grayson Thate, Matthew James Weigel, and Edmonton’s Youth Poet Laureate Timiro Mohamedhave each lent a piece to this project. These poets write about love, the body, the river, those things that connect us during these pandemic times. While we’re at home, counting down the days or weeks or months until we receive our vaccines, reaching for comfort in a pint of ice cream, read the poems on the side of your pint container. These stickers are windows through which we can reach back for one another. Spot these Glass Bookshop stickers on pints of our rotating flavours this spring and summer and keep your eyes out for more information about the wonderful poets

Friends, it’s been quite the year. At Kind, our aim is to make ice cream that brings you comfort and solace. This month’s flavours are a celebration of some of the most nostalgic, comforting foods in our lives: introducing our April Condiment Series! Heinz Swirl, Thousand Island, and vegan Relish Sorbet. Grab a spoon (or a knife!) and get comfy.

56! That’s the number of rotating flavours our talented team has carefully crafted since we opened in 2019. Which have been standouts to you? This year we’ll be bringing back a few favourites and rolling out some brand new numbers. We can’t wait to share them with you.

We’re looking for a Shift Lead for our Highlands shop to join our team! Our ideal candidate is friendly, organized, responsible and patient. Experience in the service industry is an asset and fantastic communication skills are a must. The position includes a competitive wage, full benefits and a whole lot of ice cream. Email a cover letter and resume to [email protected]. Looking for a scooping position? We’ll be posting those in the coming weeks!

Every day is Puppy Day around these parts! We love when you come by with your very good dogs - like these adorable pups, Echo and Atlas.

This photo by @karlpics of our Highlands location really captures the vibe. Inside this 90 year old building, work is finally underway and we’re on schedule for opening in a few short months. Who else is daydreaming about the summer ahead?

Joining up with legendary Edmonton coffee roasters @rogue_wave_coffee for our Vegan Espresso Flake flavour is a dream. Their tasting bar is a go-to Edmonton gem and they carry the most beautiful coffee making supplies. For this flavour, we use their Nensebo Suke roast and add freckles of dark chocolate. Millions of them. We hope you love it as much as we do!

Annnd we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming (SCOOPS)! As an added bonus, we’re scooping a secret batch of Charms that we set aside just for today. Come early if you want to luck out!

And that’s a wrap! Which was your favorite from our Caroline as Kind Flavours series? Big love to @imcarolinestokes for taking our silly idea and adding her enormous creativity and charm. If you’re not already following Caroline’s hilarious adventures.... what are you doing?!

Pretty in pints. Matcha, Mexican Hot Chocolate and Vegan Espresso Flake are available all month!

Calgary friends! We’re making a pint run next Sunday in our Kindmobile. Place your order starting at 11am today on our online shop (look for the Calgary Pint Run option). Contactless pickup outside the Giuffre Family Library on December 20 from 2-4pm. Easy Street! . . . .... . #icecream #yyc #yycliving #yyceats #easystreet See more

CHARMS! Cereal milk base filled with thousands of magical cereal marshmallows. Available in store by the pint while supplies last. If you missed out last year, this could be your lucky year - we made a whole lot more this time around!

When your photos > our photos. @lifewithirisb

Our pint freezer is stocked for you. Just in case you feel the overwhelming urge to have ice cream for dinner AND dessert tonight. For, you know, no reason. #makegoodchoicesusa

It just doesn’t get any better than a double-digit-degrees November evening. Scooping until 9! @heynowlindsay

The bad news: we’re fresh out of physical gift cards and our new order is lost in the woods. The good news: we have lots of other great options! You can always send a digital gift card through our website (either send instantly or at a later date), or grab one of our newly added One Scoop, 6 Pint or Year of Scoops cards. For the month of December, each of these gift cards comes with one of our new greeting cards (swipe through to see them all!). The cards have a nifty pocket to tuck your gift into, or to fill with gift cards from all your favorite local shops.

Our limited Halloween flavours flew off the shelves yesterday at a chilling rate! Thanks to all of you who made it in to give them a try. The spooky times aren’t over yet - come in wearing your costume today and get a kids scoop for just $2. Happy Halloween!

Everyone loves a good comeback story, am I right? We rolled out River Valley Road for July and it’s been on our minds ever since. Daydream no more, friends! RVR has officially been promoted to our Always Flavours menu. This unreal flavour is made with milk chocolate, candied walnuts + walnut bitters, gooey marshmallows and house-made brownies. Get it now or get it later - it’ll be here! . . . .... #smallbatch #madeinyeg #icecream #yegfood #eatlocal #edmontonmade #rockyroad #curiocityedmonton #icecreamlover #yeg See more

Today and tomorrow we’re serving up two TERRIFYING Halloween flavours. VEGAN GHOST: vanilla charcoal ice cream with a ghostly marshmallow swirl & TRICK OR TREAT: chocolate ice cream with Reese’s Pieces, Reese’s Mini Peanut Butter Cups, Twix and Skor. Oh, and our waffle cones are bewitched. Try them before they vanish into thin air!

We love seeing the Stranger Studio x Kind Ice Cream bowl sets out in the world. These beauties went lightning quick and we love how much you liked them. Let’s do it again sometime! @realtyunleashed

Happy Friday! Just over a week to try our October rotating flavours, Vegan Millionaire, PSL, and Whisky Hazelnut Brittle. @jenna.valji

Our little shop and our even littler pink door are here to welcome you in every season! One upside to the chillier weather is that it’s even quicker to pop in for a scoop or a couple pints. See you soon! : @supergoodcreative

We may say we make our Pup Scoops for your pups, but REALLY we make them so that we get to see content like this. THE EARS! @koda.thecorgibear

We’re open 12-9 today! The sky is blue and the scoops are a-scooping. : @lookinglikeaschnacck

Whoever was the first person to roll up a waffle and fill it with ice cream was quite possibly the most brilliant human to walk the earth. Here’s to you, waffle cones! @hungry.yyc

Something about this gorgeous fall light Autumn/Winter hours are now in effect. Visit us daily 12-9!

For our new Whisky Hazelnut Brittle seasonal jam, we used Northern Eyes Whisky from our friends at @hansendistillery, another Edmonton-based, family-run business. Northern Eyes Whisky is crisp and spicy, with notes of pear, caramel and pepper, making it a perfect compliment the chocolate ganache and hazelnut brittle that this flavour is packed with. We can’t wait for you to try this one! #supportlocal

At Kind Ice Cream we love to go for the unexpected. But sometimes, just sometimes, life calls for the... expected. Introducing Pumpkin Spice Latte, the iconic, comforting fall flavour that we all need in our lives right about now. Now scooping, along with Whisky Hazelnut Brittle and Vegan Millionaire. #expecttheexpected

Once fall rolls around and things slow down a bit around here, our ice cream production wizards get to really focus on dreaming up and perfecting new flavours. We have some ridiculously tasty new flavours lined up all the way through to next year, and we can’t wait to share them all with you! . . . .... . . #eatrealfood #icecream #icecream #yegfood #eatlocal #yum #foodie #icecreamlover #saltedcaramel See more

This cute cart of ours is stocked up and ready to make the most of this delectable fall weather. Find us in Highlands tonight 5-9 and on Saturday 12-5. We have cups of Freckled Raspberry, Cookie Butter, Deep Dark Chocolate, Frose Sorbet and Cold Brew Coffee.