St. Paul’s Nellie’s Ice Cream helped the east metro beat the extreme heat this summer with its custom ice cream cookie sandwiches, at $4.75 each. Co-owner and operator Dave Najarian advises customers to ask the scooper to hot-press the treat “to caramelize the cookies while keeping the ice cream perfectly chilled.”

Nellie’s bestselling combos

1. Chocolate-chip cookies/chocolate Oreo ice cream
2. Chocolate chocolate-chip cookies/mint chocolate-chip ice cream rolled in mini chocolate chips
3. Sugar cookies/Funfetti cake batter ice cream rolled in rainbow sprinkles