McConnell's Fine Ice Creams - Carlsbad Menu

Smooth, mouth-filling Guittard® cocoa and Central Coast, grass-fed milk & cream. A milk chocolate lover’s chocolate ice cream for the ages.

Decadent, Central Coast, grass-fed milk & cream, cage-free eggs and pure cane sugar. The essence of what makes McC’s so fine - these three ingredients have been the base for all of our ice cream flavors since 1949.

Description: A seasonally-specific collab, featuring California’s Finest: LA’s legendary\r\nrestaurant Genghis Cohen + McC’s push repeat for year two of our now, annual Hanukkah ice\r\ncream joint venture. 2024’s effort? Baked-to-perfection, toasted coconut macaroon cookies,\r\nswirled into lusciously decadent coconut cream ice cream, hit with shards of melted, bittersweet,\r\nGuittard® chocolate.

A Central Coast Thanksgiving celebration from McConnell’s and Martinelli’s. Built on over 200 years of combined California heritage, this one features Martinelli’s crisp, sweet, effervescent, delicious Sparkling Apple Cider, infused into Central Coast milk & cream, backed by ribbons upon ribbons of McC’s house-made, tart cranberry jam. Give. Thanks.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Milk, Eggs\r\n\r\nNUT FREE, GLUTEN FREE

A collaboration with our fellow Santa Barbarian, Katy Perry, in support of her Firework Foundation that empowers kids to discover their spark through\r\nthe arts. Featuring 'even brighter than the moon' blue raspberry ice cream, 'ignite the light' raspberry jam, & 'let your colors burst' rainbow sprinkles. Boom, boom, boom!

Ripe bananas, pureed and folded into Central Coast milk & cream, then mated to thick, salt-spiked, deadly delicious, salted caramel sauce. Scooped into pints at your local shop.

Smooth-as-silk, tangy-as-a-telenovela-star, Central American coffee, paired with Central Coast, grass-fed milk & cream. Intense, creamy texture and mouth-filling coffee flavor. Scooped into pints at your local shop. \r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk\r\nGluten Free

Espresso infused into fresh, Central Coast, grass-fed milk & cream. Coffee lovers’ prayers are answered is a mule kick of bold, complex coffee flavors.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk\r\nGLUTEN FREE, NUT FREE

Our pure and simple, sweet cream ice cream, a touch of R.R. Lochhead® vanilla, and our fifty-plus year partner’s - Guittard® - bittersweet, melted chocolate chip.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk\r\nGluten Free

Great chocolate ice cream. Like unicorns, it’s typically a myth. We want to believe, but typically, it’s just...sadness. Not anymore, kids. Welcome to this trifecta of Guittard cocoa, house-made chocolate ganache, and our melted, bittersweet chocolate chip. Believe it.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk\r\nGLUTEN FREE, NUT FREE

Local, picked-at-their prime, Santa Barbara strawberry preserves, bathed in sweet cream and set off by our deliciously dark, melted, bittersweet chocolate chip. You’re. Welcome.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk\r\nGLUTEN FREE, NUT FREE

In Latin America, they call them alfajores - delicious sandwich cookies, filled with dulce de leche. At McC’s, we call them Holy %#$@!!! Dark chocolate ice cream with buttery, house-baked shortbread cookies and our signature salted caramel sauce.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk, Wheat

Churros. What are they? Pastry? Breakfast food? Exotic, amuse bouche? Bathed in silky, Central Coast, grass-fed milk & cream, these buttery, cinnamony, vanilla-spiked denizens of country fair fryers are pure perfection. \r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk, Wheat

Decadent, dense and velvety smooth, Sweet Cream ice cream, paired with rich, chewy chocolate cookies.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk, Wheat, Soy\r\n\r\nNUT FREE

Chunks of classic chocolate chip cookie dough suspended in McC’s sweet cream, with just a splash of R.R. Lochhead® vanilla, make for McC’s unique spin on a long-time favorite.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk, Wheat

Thick and creamy peanut butter, folded into peanut butter-infused, Central Coast, grass-fed milk & cream, alongside shards of melted, bittersweet chocolate. A moment of silence for all other peanut butter-based ice creams.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk, Peanuts\r\nGLUTEN FREE

Buttery, shortbread cookies, folded into Bergamot oil-infused black tea and grass-fed milk & cream. It’s like Afternoon Tea. Only frozen. And creamier. And without the finger sandwiches. Scooped into pints at your local shop. \r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk, Wheat

A Left Coast love child. Willamette Valley, Oregon marionberry preserves, folded into tart and tangy, Eureka lemon-infused, Central coast milk & cream.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk\r\nGLUTEN FREE, NUT FREE

Visions of scorching, hot Summer days. Poolside, toes dancing on hot cement. Organic peppermint bathed in Central Coast, grass-fed milk & cream and our melted, bittersweet chocolate chip. Childhood was never this good.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk\r\nGLUTEN FREE, NUT FREE

The divine, “holidayish”, minty goodness of organic peppermint, paired with heaps of peppermint candy and a splash of R.R. Lochhead® vanilla. An enduring, decades-in-the-making, McC’s favorite. The best part? You can enjoy it in July.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk\r\nGLUTEN FREE, NUT FREE

Salt + caramel? Meh. Caramel + salt + melted, bittersweet chocolate? Uh, yes please? Distinct, caramelized toffee notes bathed in grass-fed milk & cream. A drool-worthy trifecta 10-point Helvetica cannot convey.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk\r\nGLUTEN FREE, NUT FREE

Sinfully ripe Santa Barbara strawberry preserves, macerated and stirred-into Central Coast, grass-fed milk & cream. A splash of R.R. Lochhead® vanilla. A shot of Eureka lemon juice. It’s Mid-Summer on California’s Central Coast.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk\r\nGluten Free

Fresh from The Bake Room at McC’s. Dense, velvety smooth sweet cream ice cream, a hint of local sea salt and bountiful bits of our chewy, Guittard®, chocolate chunk cookies.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk, Wheat\r\nNUT FREE

Rainbow sprinkles. What are they, really? Hopes? Dreams...? Unicorn tears...? How’d they ever get so small and cute? And whose idea was it to pair them with sheet cake, because this stuff is crazy good.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk, Wheat\r\nNUT FREE

Luscious swirls of salted caramel, amid heaps of gooey, rich & chocolaty, house-baked brownies, bathed in decadent, indulgent, vanilla-spiked, sweet cream ice cream. For those times when having it all in life actually seems possible.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk, Wheat\r\nNUT FREE

Layers of toasted vanilla beans in marshmallowy-spiked sweet cream! Gooey, house-made, bittersweet chocolate ganache!! House-baked, honey graham cracker chunks!!! You can take your hiking and your blisters, your campfires ‘n freeze-dried beef stroganoff... Just, please. Give. Me. S’mores.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk, Wheat

Don't underestimate the subtle perfection of Sweet Cream. With an ingredients list of only: Cream, Milk, Cane Sugar, Non-Fat Milk Solids, and Egg Yolks, it really doesn't need anything else. Although it does make a pretty good base for a whatever else you'd like to put on top.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk\r\nGLUTEN FREE, NUT FREE

Shredded coconut, toasted to caramelized perfection, crunchy, salt-roasted almonds, and our melted, bittersweet chocolate chip. What coconut milk-based “ice creams” want to be when they grow up.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk, Tree Nuts (Coconut, Almonds)\r\nGLUTEN FREE

Sourced from the Madagascar farms of 50+ year McC’s partner, vanilla revolutionary/guru R.R. Lochhead. The very same, full-flavored, classic ‘nilla-liciousness we’ve been kicking down since forever.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk\r\nGLUTEN FREE, NUT FREE

McC’s-own, house-baked brownies and chocolate chunk cookies, folded into lightly salted, organic sweet cream, and topped with swirls of delicious, organic, gooey chocolate fudge. CONTAINS: Milk, Eggs, Wheat

So much has been said about matcha. Its purported effects on oxidative stress, the heart and/or high blood pressure. Well, leave all that to the science types, 'cause we make ice cream, people! And on that note, this smooth, umami-laden, rich & creamy deliciousness - is divine.

Picked-at-their-peak, impossibly ripe, organic Santa Barbara strawberries, cooked down to jammy perfection, then stirred into decadent, organic, sweet cream ice cream, and accompanied by chunks of house-baked shortbread cookies. CONTAINS: Milk, Eggs, Wheat

Decadent, organic dark cocoa, melted into organic, grass-fed milk & cream, then paired with thick, creamy peanut butter, and studded with rich, chocolaty, house-baked brownies. CONTAINS: Milk, Eggs, Wheat, Peanuts

A vanilla fanatic’s vanilla - assertive, rich and ?oral. Madagascar (Bourbon) vanilla sourced from our ?fty-plus year partner, vanilla guru R.R. Lochhead®. Au revoir to all “French” vanillas. This one’s California gold. CONTAINS: Milk, Eggs

Sweetly tart, perfectly ripe passion fruit, folded into our indulgent, plant-based “ice cream”, paired with a luscious swirl of citrusy sweetness.\r\n\r\nGLUTEN FREE, NUT FREE

Decadent house-made chocolate cookies folded into plant-based, Guittard® chocolate-infused “cream”, alongside a river of our house-made, melted chocolate fudge. Indulge.\r\n\r\nGLUTEN FREE, NUT FREE

Fans of insipid coffee ice creams, we are not. Here at McC’s, we like our frozen desserts as strong and sweet as love. So, welcome to this delicious, creamy combo of rich, coffee flavor and two, yes, two, distinct, house-made McC’s cookie crumbles (chocolate and chocolate chip)!\r\n\r\nGLUTEN FREE, NUT FREE

Our delicious, house-made ‘cow chow’ (chocolate-coated cereal) alongside swirls of rich, chocolate fudge, churned into peanut-butter-infused, oat milk-based sweet cream. \r\n\r\nGLUTEN FREE

For salted caramel fans who long ago grew tired of accepting apologies from companies whose dairy-free salted caramel was somehow less than, finally, your prayers have been answered. Salted caramel, infused into our oat milk base, and paired with a dark and indulgent, house-made chocolate ribbon.\r\n\r\nGLUTEN FREE, NUT FREE

Dairy-free vanilla. Most times, it’s even less interesting than most dairy-based vanilla ice creams. Well, hear this: McC’s dairy-free Vanilla Bean, featuring our 50+year partner, revolutionary/guru R.R. Lochhead®? It’s anything but just vanilla.\r\n\r\nGLUTEN FREE, NUT FREE

A delicious, tartly sweet sorbet of fresh mango purée.

Intensely deep, dark cocoa alongside rich, velvety chunks of Guittard® chocolate, with just a touch of sea salt. Chocoholics will feel compelled to journal once exposed to this cookie.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk, Wheat\r\n

Slightly crackled, crunchy exterior. Richly warm and chewy, irresistibly salty-sweet and creamy peanut buttery center. All of it, speckled with salt-roasted peanuts. A peanut butter cookie for the ages.\r\n\r\nCONTAINS: Eggs, Milk, Wheat, Peanuts, Soy

Bottled in the Ouachita Mountains, USA since 1871. Glass bottle.

Bottled in the Ouachita Mountains, USA since 1871. Enjoy the refreshing bubbles of this naturally sparkling water.

Refreshing and less sweet than a typical orange soda, with Italian mandarin and tangerine oils.

A rich sassafras flavor derived from cinnamon, sweet birch, vanilla, and wintergreen oil.

The cold, refreshing, sparkling classic that America loves.