Restaurant Name: Mariposa Ice Cream
Specialty: Ice Cream
Location: Normal Heights, San Diego, California
Company: Susie
Overall Experience: scream for ice cream!



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Goodness graces. I did not realize how fortunate I have been in the ice cream world. I've been spoiled! Mariposa Ice Cream is an ice cream place that I've been itching to go to, and I finally went! We almost passed the shop as it camouflaged with the store next to it. Thankfully with Susie's almost good memory, we managed to stop before we passed it.

The ice cream itself was really really good. I got cookies and cream (!) and one of their homemade cones. The ice cream was creamy without it being too sweet. I do prefer to have my oreo cookies maintain that crunch! of theirs though. The cookies were soggy, but not too bad to have asked for another scoop!

The cone was different. It wasn't really what I was expecting. I'm in love with Sweet Rose Creamery's homemade cone. It has a nice crunch to it which complements the smoothness of the ice cream extremely well. However, Mariposa's ice cream cone was too crumbly for me. The texture of the cone was too similiar to that of the ice cream, rather than provide the contrast that I was looking for. Nonetheless, the cone was definitely fresh and still very good! It had a slight vanilla (or something) flavor added to it which made the cone more floral and flavorful. None of that grocery store blandness here!