I compared round, custom ice-cream cakes from Dairy Queen, Cold Stone Creamery, and Baskin-Robbins to find the best option.
Savannah Born
No celebration is complete without cake. But like many, I've grown tired of dry layers and waxy frosting. It wasn't until recently that I remembered ice-cream cake exists.I hadn't eaten ice-cream cake for years, let alone ordered one online, but a quick search showed that the Dairy Queen, Cold Stone Creamery, and Baskin-Robbins of my childhood were still popular.In a quest to discover the best, I customized a similar ice-cream cake at all three chains. To keep the playing field level, I requested the smallest-size celebration cake with "Happy Birthday" in blue letters.The flavors and layers were based on my first stop, Dairy Queen, since it offered few customization options. I used its standard DQ Cakes Celebration Cake as the baseline.Here's how the chains measured up.
Dairy Queen's "custom" cakes didn't feel all that custom to me.
At Dairy Queen, my cake customization options felt limited.
