Handel's Homemade Ice Cream

My family LOVES Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream! We visit the McCandless location weekly! The staff is patient and amazing—especially when my kids want to sample different flavors! The ice cream is always fresh and tasty. I love to getting a hot fudge sundae to top off a long week, and my children love the seasonal birthday cake flavor and cake batter (with sprinkles)! I recently tried the deep dish apple pie flavor and OMG!! It was heavenly!!!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Deep Dish Apple Pie, Birthday Cake, Cake Batter, Ice Cream Cone, Sundaes

The best in the area , always consistently good flavors and adding new seasonal ones all the time

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

THE DEEP DISH APPLE PIE ice cream is amazing!! Everything we tried was great, will definitely be back!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Best ice cream in the north hills

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Banana Split

The delicious Blue Monster. I was so excited to try this!!! Yum yum yum.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great ice cream and sides that come with it

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Cookie Dough

Handel’s homemade ice cream is always a good choice! When we found out we would be near McCandless Crossing, we knew we had to stop and bring some home for the entire family! They have a wide variety of flavors that everyone will enjoy. We tried the salty caramel truffle, horchata, mint chocolate chip Handel’s pop, and multiple different pints to bring to family members! We absolutely loved the dipped waffle cones, it was the cherry on top!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Ice Cream Cone, Butter Pecan, Coconut Cream Pie, Handel Pops

I absolutely love Handel’s and wish we still had one in the South Hills. Fortunately, this McCandless Crossing location is not too far and is so worth the trip. Do I regularly bring a little ice cream cooler packed with ice to make sure I get a couple pints home safely? You bet I do.

Handel’s ice cream is so decadent and well-made. It has just the right texture, creaminess and add-ins. They also have such an incredible variety of flavors that it is nearly impossible to choose. Fortunately, on my last visit I discovered the four-scoop sampler for just about $6.50, which is an incredible deal. I had already eaten a two-scoop cone so asked if it could be packaged to go, but this is going to be my go-to order here in the future. With a constantly rotating selection of seasonal flavors, I want to try as many things as possible each time I visit, and this also makes it easier to figure out what you might want more of for later, so you can choose any take-home pints wisely! Their prices overall are so affordable here. We got a two-scoop waffle cone, a banana split, the four-scoop sampler, two small vanilla scoops and two pints all for under $40.

This is a popular spot that often has a line, but the friendly staff works efficiently and keeps it moving. It has a nice amount of seating outdoors, with one table with an umbrella and eight or so good-sized benches. Lots of folks bring their pups and I did on this visit, too. Mine are sometimes too nervous to eat their ice cream until they get home but could not resist the vanilla here.

I don’t know that I’ve ever had a miss on a flavor here. My recs from this visit: Spouse Like a House (think Chubby Hubby but better), dark and decadent Chocolate Raspberry Truffle, and the summery, seasonal Peach and Lemon Bar.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Ice Cream Cone, Cookie Dough, Coconut Cream Pie, Vanilla Scoop

So my younger brother and I had arrived and they had the window open asking for someone to order next. Another young couple said we could go since they didn't know what we wanted. We walked up to the window. The worker walked away and kept walking past us multiple times. It took 15 minutes for us to get an order while multiple people behind us had their ice cream in their hands. I was a little annoyed cuz they kept looking at us and didn't come over to help us or ask us if we had a mobile order. These young kids had some terrible service. Ice cream was good though. Just work on customer service skills

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 2

My first time there it was awesome the ice cream was delicious the girl that works there she was great I wanna come back ?

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

My pup and I treated ourselves to dessert since it was a beautiful day. I ordered a pup cup for my dog and he absolutely loved it! I got myself a mango sorbet and a pineapple sundae which were both absolutely refreshing and so yummy! I can’t wait to come back here and try all of the many more amazing items and flavors they have! ?

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Sundaes

So my younger brother and I had arrived and they had the window open asking for someone to order next. Another young couple said we could go since they didn't know what we wanted. We walked up to the window. The worker walked away and kept walking past us multiple times. It took 15 minutes for us to get an order while multiple people behind us had their ice cream in their hands. I was a little annoyed cuz they kept looking at us and didn't come over to help us or ask us if we had a mobile order. These young kids had some terrible service. Ice cream was good though. Just work on customer service skills

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 2

Great ice cream and decent little area for sitting and enjoying. Only tried one flavor but it was good ice cream!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Some of the best homemade ice cream around! Great service, great options to choose from!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Mango sorbet was delicious! Will get chocolate next time! We ordered small size and loved the 3 scoops! Love the outdoor seating

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Sorbet