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Eat This Immediately: Frangelli's Ice Cream Doughnut

POSTED: Monday, August 9, 2010, 4:43 PM

Filed Under: Eat This Immediately

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Yep, you read that right. Ice. Cream. Doughnut. A cardboard sign advertises this glorious union in the window at Frangellis (847 W. Ritner St.), a bare-bones deep-South-Philly bakery that looks like its been there since Bobby Rydell, Fabian and Frankie Avalon haunted these precincts. Crunchy, brown, wide-holed Italian doughnuts dipped in glossy black chocolate have always been Frangellis bag, but sandwiching an old-school vanilla or Neapolitan ice cream brick between a halved, hole-less one is something new. The flavor and contrast of texture and temperature call to mind waffles and ice cream, but this isnt something to be knife-and-forked in a twee dessert shoppe. The glory is in the $2.50 treats mess vanilla-chocolate-and-strawberry rivers will run down your forearms, and Frangellis saucy lady-bakers lay on the powdered sugar so thick youll look like Debbie Mazar in Goodfellas by the time youre through. Eat this immediately!

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Posted 2010-08-16 11:02:18

[...] Ice cream-stuffed doughnuts from Frangelli’s are what you should eat immediately, says Adam Er... [...]

Sam J

Posted 2010-08-09 15:54:56

Wow. You paint a glorious picture Adam, yet you were still unable to full prepare me for that experience. And they even gave us free cookies to eat while we waited. Insane!

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Posted 2010-08-22 19:31:49

[...] invention and…. DOH! I’ve been beaten to the punch by places like Holey Cream and Frangelli’s…. or have I? Their’s is more of an doughnut ice cream sandwich, plus they use those [...]

Sweetie

Posted 2010-08-10 18:19:06

Oh I wish to taste it but darn I live in Calif and am a dibetic..  SHOOT!

Sweetie

Posted 2010-08-10 18:19:36

typo error... diabetic

Oleg

Posted 2010-08-10 10:51:32

This has been my favorite donut place for a while and indeed their hand pumped jelly and cream donuts are amazing. It makes 11AM on any particular weekend that much more interesting.

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Posted 2010-08-09 13:23:42

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Adam Erace and Amy Twinkler, Meal Ticket. Meal Ticket said: Ice cream doughnuts from Frangelli's?! @adamerace says eat them IMMEDIATELY: http://bit.ly/92Htna [...]

BarryG

Posted 2010-08-09 13:31:52

Their filled-to-order jelly donuts are awesome, too.

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