It’s summer, and no matter what your age, we all scream for ice cream, but sometimes the ordinary is never enough.
St David’s Cardiff is set to host a unique, free ice cream lolly-making event from 20th – 21st August as part of its summer Lollydays celebrations – flavour options will include sweet, savoury, and specialities such as Welsh cake, gold dust, bacon, and even edible insects!
The LOLLY-POP-UP will open at St David’s exclusively for one weekend only where you can create and fully customise your own bespoke lolly, using ice cream from award-winning Welsh brand RED BOAT. The hands-on experience will offer lots of incredible toppings with ‘Hundreds and Thousands’ of flavours – sprinkle puns aside, there will be 142,000 topping combinations available at the Lolly-Pop-Up.
Red Boat are something very special too, with countless ‘Taste‘ awards under their belt, and officially one of the 17 coolest places to get an ice cream in the whole of the UK! If you’ve sampled what they serve, you’ll know exactly what we mean.
This is a chance for them to create the ice cream of your dreams, with regionally-sourced ingredients including tasty Welsh cakes, laverbread, and crushed Welsh rock candy.
Other toppings range from edible flowers, fruit, pretzels, sweets and cookie dough, to peanut butter cups, cereals, candy floss, fresh mint, and gold dust. For those looking for something a bit more unusual, options will also include bacon dust, ginger, Twiglets, chilli flakes, and edible insects. The ice-cream dipping will be topped off with a choice of chocolate, caramel, Biscoff, peanut butter, strawberry, honey and toffee sauces.
You can choose from a dairy or vegan ice cream base before dipping your lolly in a choice of chocolate and designing your own topping combinations.
The Lolly-Pop-Up event is free but will be ticketed as demand is expected to be high. You can book your free tickets from next Monday 25th July by visiting HERE.
Helen Morgan, Centre Director of St David’s Cardiff, and no doubt chief Lolly-Pop-Up taster, told us……
“The Lolly-Pop-Up event is different to anything we’ve done before and we’re so excited to showcase it within St David’s as part of our summer-long Lollydays celebration.
“It will offer a mix of fantastic flavours and toppings, so they’ll look as amazing as they taste and will no doubt go down an absolute storm.”
If you’re heading to St David’s this summer, we can highly recommend you visit the stunning LOLLYDAYS installation at the shopping centre, comprising of five giant ice-lollies and over 6,000 flowers. The 40-metre-long display is suspended in mid-air above the Hayes Arcade within St David’s, overlooked by a floral selfie arch from the upper level of the Grand Arcade.
Take a look at our video below……
We’ve been and can tell you it is the perfect spot for a selfie, which you can post on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram using the tag @StDavidsCardiff you also have a chance to win £500 of shopping vouchers.
The LOLLY-POP-UP will be at St David’s Cardiff on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st August from 11am-5pm. Booking opens at 10am on Monday 25th July. Tickets are free but must be pre-booked to guarantee your slot. One ticket is required per person with a max of 6 tickets per booking.
For more details on The Lolly-Pop-Up including how to book, visit the St David’s Cardiff website HERE