Davis Creamery

I used to come here all the time when they were located in the plaza by Safeway because the ice cream was so creamy and packed full of flavor. When I first heard they closed up, I was so sad to see a place that made fantastic ice cream go away forever. but Davis Creamery closed down and became a partnership with Sugar Daddies so all is not lost! Sugar Daddies is the storefront that sells Cupcake Cravings while Davis Creamery is the ice cream venture. You can read about the conversion in this interview on Munchi Musing’s blog:
What’s nice is that Jesse Sahlin (the ice cream maker) makes his ice cream with his own recipe of an eggless starter base. Due to limited space of the ice cream machine that he uses, however, they can only make small batches of 2 – 3 gallons at a time. With the small batches and the popularity of the flavors, the ice cream tends to be no older than 72 hours. How fresh is that?!

Here’s a short but sweet review…(cause my thumbs are starting to hurt from typing on my iPhone… haha).
Awesome ice cream! 5 stars… salted caramel is yum. Perfect ratio of sweet and salty and creamy…
Service? They look like they hate their jobs… but they get you in and out. 3 stars.
Also bought cupcakes for a friend… didn’t try them… but many numerous flavors. 4 stars.
4 stars, it is!

The ice cream here is great. 5 stars for their ice cream. It was freezing cold last night but the avocado coconut was so delicious that I couldn’t resist. Everything is fairly priced and every flavor packs a unique punch.
That being said, the cupcakes here are awful, dry creations that have a weird aftertaste and mediocre frosting. Do not order their cupcakes.

Had a cupcake craving for days and wound up here on a Wednesday night where it just so happened to be cupcake special day. If I am not mistaken it was $ 2 cupcake day or something. Well anyways I got the red velvet, the carrot, and I forgot the last one, but it had caramel filling with a monkey face shaped chocolate atop the frosting. They looks awesome, but eh I’ve had much better. The only one I really liked was the carrot one. Maybe next time I’ll come for the ice cream instead.

Love the new location of Davis Creamery, where you can sit outside while you enjoy your ice cream or inside, where the brightly painted walls would definitely cheer you up.
Service has always been great, and I like that you can sample as many flavors of the ice cream that you want and they have cupcake samples as well. They also have deals where if you get a cupcake and a scoop of ice cream, it is cheaper.
Now, on to the food…
The cupcakes are from Cupcake Cravings, originally from Sacramento. I was initially excited because it seemed like they have so many flavors of cupcakes but was disappointed every single time I tried any of the cupcakes. The cakes were either not fluffy enough, or too sweet. Having tried more than five different flavors, I have given up on the cupcakes here and would recommend people to go to Let Them Eat Cake instead. So they get a 3 because of this.
Otherwise, love love love every single ice cream flavor that they have (they even switch up the flavors every few days which is nice). And they never seem to go wrong, whether it is with the more common flavors or something funky like avocado. Highly recommend this place for their sorbets and ice cream.
In short, do come to this place if you have an ice cream craving. I am sure you won’t regret it.

I’d love to give this place a great review — but they weren’t at the address listed here (or in the Entertainment book), no signs in the window and the phone number has been disconnected. It appears they have closed. The lady in the Quiznos next door told me that she thought they may have moved — but if they have they sure didn’t do a good job of telling anyone. I brought my motorcycle group from Elk Grove so we wound up at Black Bear Diner instead.
Update — 7÷7÷2011 — Just found out that they reopened under a different name in downtown Davis. They are now Sugar Daddies. (Would a sign in the window have been too much to ask?)

After poking around Davis for a couple days this turned out to be one of the best options for grabbing something sweet. The ice cream is really creamy and sweet. I loved the cupcake flavor but will admit I’m pretty much a 10 year-​old kid when it comes to my sweet tooth and love sugar. The salted caramel and avocado coconut after definitely a more refined taste. Watch out for the cupcakes though! They’re frosting is like pure sugar, eat one up and you’ll be bouncing off the walls. The people working here were super nice and really know how to sell some ice cream.

If you love cream, you’ll love this place. For me though, the ice cream is too dense and rich. I’d prefer to stick to of smoothies and froyo.
I think they should consider having a «mini» size. For how dense it is the small is just too overwhelming.

I’ve been here a few times and it is an absolute must every time I visit my friends in Davis! The ice cream is homemade, and is absolutely superb! It’s tastes so much better than ice cream just from the grocery store. They’ve got a few unique flavors too — my favorite is the apple pie! Service is really great, they’re super friendly and helpful!
They have cupcakes here too. They’re pretty good but I’d rather get the ice cream. Definitely a place you’ve got to hit up if you’re ever in Davis!

I LOVE DAVIS CREAMERY.
— Dollar scoop on Mondays? YES PLEASE! It’s basically two scoops for a dollar which is great for my cheap college budget. I highly recommend the ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ flavor which is half vanilla ice cream and half orange sorbet (it tastes similar orange creamsicles or the orange dream machine at jamba). The chai tea, coffee, salted caramel, and avocado coconut flavor is really yummy too. Everything just tastes better when it’s cheap + homemade. :)
— The cookies here are really delicious too, especially when warmed up. Davis Creamery is a great place to visit whenever you’re in the area!

What’s better than ice cream? Home-​made ice cream by your favorite locals. Hands down, they make the best ice cream you’ll ever eat. Not to mention, it’s so fresh. They offer $ 5 cartons on Thursdays and $ 3 cowpies (ice cream cookie sandwhich of your choice) on another day.
My favorite ice cream has GOT to be the avocado coconut. I’ve been dying to try their honey almond, but they never have any out. I’m too scared to buy the whole carton just in case I don’t like it…
Sometimes, I get cravings for the avocado coconut at 1 in the morning… I’ll even eat it when it’s 30 degrees outside – that’s how good it is.
I always recommend one scoop on the sugar cone. It’s just the right amount of ice cream without giving you that sick to your stomach feeling AND the sugar cone is so delicious.
I gotta say, it’s COW-​abunga!

Chocolate chip + Chi Tea
Its a cute little place with more than just ice cream. There is an ok selection of flavors, however, I wouldn’t eat any of the ones that had. When I got there I got stuck eating the 2 listed above because I didn’t care about the rest. I only had there ice cream one prior (my friend brought it to work for me) and I thought it was pretty good!
Chocolate Chip: the chips were too hard, small, but hard. The flavor of the actually ice cream was good, smooth and creamy!
Chi Tea: Not bad, I was scared at first, but I gave t a try and it was like vanilla with a KICK of chi at the end. It actually almost tasted like Starbucks Chi.
Green Tea (seasonal only): This is the flavor I had the first time and it was Hella good! Its usually hard to find good green tea ice cream and they managed to make it well.

w00t for an ice cream place with delish flavors and exquisite cupcakes! I can’t think of another place in Davis that sells such interesting flavors.
I’m a big fan of [ice cream] cowpies on Tuesdays — two fatty cookies on top of a fatty scoop of ice cream? I don’t want to think about how many calories I’m ingesting but it’s very nom-​worthy. OHMYGOODNESS I love their «Oops» cookies! It’s a chocolate chip cookies with out the chocolate chips. And, my friends and I are fans of the salted caramel! Yum
The cupcakes have such interesting flavors! And I do like how it’s baked fresh daily. The pricing is okay… $ 2.50 for a cupcake, but you know those dozen assorted bite-​size cupcakes they sell? $ 15??? Yeah, I was shocked at $ 15 for 12 itty bitty amazing cupcakes. I mean, they’re good and all but I wasn’t sure if they were THAT good.
If you haven’t been here yet, check it out! I don’t think there’s any place like it in Davis :)

Everyone is right– a must visit when in Davis!
Loved the brown sugar vanilla flavor, and surprisingly, the avocado coconut as well.

This review is for the CUPCAKE CRAVING section only. I went to the cupcake craving in Sacramento, and was disappointed with the red velvet… However, I decided to give them another chance (because Wednesday has $ 1.50 cupcakes. Great marketing because that’s really the only reason that drew my friend and me in.) Anyways. Staff was really nice and helpful explaining the various cupcake flavors. My friend bought a Monkey Mania (Banana cake filled w/​caramel) and I chose the Dulce de Leche… OMG. Cake tasted worse than what you could make using boxed cake mix! It reminded me of a cake you’d get from Safeway… Spongey, but not dense/​moist enough to be good… The banana flavoring seemed artificial… ugh. Caramel wasn’t even good. Blech. Dulce de Leche had a vanilla/​white cake that wasn’t good either… My friend and I took a bite of each of ours and said it wasn’t worth the calories.
I suggest if you want cupcakes and aren’t choosy, come here, but if you want to a cupcake whose flavor surpasses the number of calories and grams of fat you’d be inhaling, go to Let Them Eat Cake. I’m serious. You’ll be $ 2.75 in the hole, but hey, it’s definitely better than the $ 2 crapcakes they serve here. Trust me.

I couldn’t resist going in when we walked by to go to Dos Coyotes. It was Sunday and the any 3 items for $ 5 deal caught my eye, then big sign for cupcakes, and walking in seeing the case of cupcakes was a done deal. They even had sugar free ones!
Having specials every day is great marketing tool. They have ice cream and baked goods — a sweet heaven! Staff was friendly too!
— Red Velvet: very moist cake, rich & thick sweet frosting
— Vanilla: moist, light, creamy frosting
— Sugar-​Free Vanilla: a bit of an aftertaste so you can tell it’s sugar free, but still pretty good and «healthier»
My friends and I had a fun blind taste test between the 2 vanillas. Most of us got it right and the «healthy person» that chose that cupcake couldn’t even tell the difference between the two… haha.

I love Davis Creamery!!! They have unique flavors and I love how it’s so creamy… most of all, I’m so thankful for dollar scoop Mondays! For once I have a reason to not hate Mondays!
My only complaint is that the cupcakes are ridiculously expensive… and that sometimes the ice cream is all melted and is a complete mess to eat.

Went here today just for their cupcakes. I would rate this place a solid 3.5 stars but I rounded down because the cupcakes here are just okay. I still think Kara’s Cupcakes & Sprinkles Cupcakes use higher end ingredients, these cupcakes taste like the ones I bake, the only difference is in the frosting.
Although they have many choices, the $ 2.50 price tag is fair for the «gourmet» cupcakes or $ 2.00 for the basic chocolate or vanilla cupcake.
Well at least I am happy now that there is a place that sells fresh baked up cakes daily =)

Biked here today and was super excited to try their cupcakes! They had a nice assortment of flavors (Banana, red velvet, mint chocolate, strawberry, etc) and they were only $ 2.50! In SF, I’m used to paying around $ 3.25! The cupcake was good, I wish it was more moist though.
Would love to return here in the future to try some more cupcakes and to try their organic ice cream!
Also friendly service and very clean.

AMAZING! Davis Creamery reopened this week and joined Cupcake Cravings (most delicious, looks-​too-​good-​to-​eat cupcakes in nearly 20 flavors) and Fat Cat Cookies (as big as my roommates head as she describes it).
Their ice cream is made on site and come in neat flavors like banana and cupcake with real batter in it. They still mix in toppings on a chilled marble slab (as their former name entailed).
Best part: their free samples are mini versions of their cupcakes!!! The staff is young and friendly and give their honest opinion of the products. You cannot go wrong here!