Black Cat Ice Cream

The black cat is out of the bag! Black Cat Ice Cream Valley Junction coming soon!

Black Cat Ice Cream goes on the prowl for a second location coming in September Novelty ice cream flavors, nuggets and more make their way to Valley Junction this September when Black Cat Ice Cream expands.

It’s our third anniversary at our shop! 🎉🥳

It’s been a WILD ride since we opened the doors three years ago today. We are incredibly thankful for all of our customers and fans! We work hard everyday to make the very best ice cream possible while providing a fun, unique experience for our customers. There’s still lots of ideas and flavors we haven’t got to, so if you keep coming, we’ll keep making them. Thank you! 🐈‍⬛🍦❤️

PS - We will also have a big announcement coming, so stay tuned! 😉

It’s a beautiful day and we have a beautiful lineup of flavors!

Lemon Blackberry Basil Sorbet scooping now!

It’s a beautiful day for ice cream and patios, and we have both waiting for you!

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Tomorrow is our first cat adoption event of the summer! Lots of cute cats and kittens will be available for adoption from 1-3 on the patio. See you Saturday!

Caturdays are back this Saturday! Come have some
Ice cream and adopt your new best friend just in time for summer! 🐈‍⬛🍦

To celebrate Mother’s Day, we’re rolling out Carrie’s Carrot Cake (carrot cake spiced ice cream with caramelized carrots, carrot cake pieces, and a cream cheese swirl).

Honoring the late great Carrie Marling Bankes, who encouraged our front of house manager Abby to apply at Black Cat three years ago and who was both the worlds biggest carrot cake fan and a fierce advocate for mothers. Mother’s day can be hard for many people, but we are firm believers that moms and ice cream deserve to be celebrated every single day.

We are back! New hours! New merch! Same award-winning ice cream! Thanks for your patience this week. We’re excited to see you!

We will be closed Sunday - Thursday this week, reopening with summer hours Friday. We have a full
week of construction, cleaning, fixing, planting, painting, and installing so we can be ready to serve you this summer! We’ll see you Friday!

🚨New collab flavor alert! 🚨 We teamed up with Scornovacca's Bakery to create Scornovacca’s Almond Love Drops ice cream - almond ice cream with Almond Love Drops! Almond Love Drops are soft delicious almond flavored cookies made fresh at Scornovacca's Bakery. Available today!

Our new dipping cabinet is here! We’ve gone from having 10 flavors available to 12! Come check us out!

Banana Pudding Nugs are back!! Banana pudding ice cream with Nilla Wafers dipped in white chocolate and coated in Nilla Wafers and Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

She’s looking so cute in her new sun visor!

Yes, it’s time for ice cream. Come see us today!

It’s a beautiful day for some beautiful ice cream! We have Galactic Chocolate (White Chocolate ice cream with chocolate cookies) Superman (Blue Moon, Banana, and Strawberry ice cream) and Lightyear (Pandan, Ube, and Coconut ice cream).

🚨New Nug Alert!🚨 Cookie Monster! Brown butter ice cream with chocolate chip cookie and chocolate cookies, coated in chocolate and Cocoa Krispies and Cookie Crisp cereal.

New flavor alert! Sullivan’s Moon Mist! In honor of the newest member of the Black Cat family, we have created Moon Mist ice cream. What is Moon Mist? It’s a popular Canadian flavor thought to have been invented in Nova Scotia in the 1960’s. It’s three flavors in one - bubblegum, grape, and banana. Scooping today! 🌖🍦

Congratulations to James and Joan! Sully is here!

Yes, we will be open Easter Sunday!

Happy Saint Patrick’s weekend from your friends at Black Cat! Leprechauns (aka Chef James) have taken over the kitchen, turning some of your favorite flavors green - and bringing us some new faves too!

☘️ Green Velvet Oreo
☘️ Green Butter Cookie Dough
☘️ Green Cheese Lemon Cake
☘️ Green Chocolate Covered Potato Chips
☘️ Green Cherry Limeade
☘️ Flag of Ireland (Butter cake, caramel, Irish Cream)
☘️ The Banshee (Malted Irish cream and raspberry)
☘️ Grasshopper (Mint and fudge)
☘️ Green Banana Pudding and Nilla Wafers
☘️ Black & Black (Guinness and black currant)

Available now until we run out!

Suns out, cats out!

New flavor alert! Tiger Kings (cake batter ice cream, fudge and Oreos). Congratulations to the WDM Valley Boys Basketball Team on winning another state title!

The Oscars are this Sunday, which reminded us that we needed to bring back our smash hit flavor from this summer - Barbenheimer! Our conceptual ice cream
based on the Barbie/Oppenheimer craze is smoked cotton candy ice cream with a Black Cherry Warheads candy swirl! Scooping now! 🤯

🚨New Nug Alert!! Mint Chip!

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Congratulations to Des Moines’ Caitlin Clark on becoming the all-time NCAA scorer! We are scooping (yellow cake batter ice cream and fudge) today!

Saturday ✅
Sunshine ✅
Ice Cream ✅

🚨New collab time! 🚨 Ramen Club DSM is Des Moines’ first Ramen Social Club, but did you know they also make a killer chili crisp sauce? It’s true and it s a spicy part of this new collaboration ice cream: Coco Plumb Club! It’s toasted coconut ice cream with chili crisp-infused plumb sauce. Scooping now! 🍜🐈‍⬛🍦