Chicago’s Best Ice Cream Bar: The Crave Bar Chicago dessert

Pregnancy, I have been craving ice cream, and we found a cool treat that's sure to satisfy. The Crave Bar. Hi, Kim. Hi, Brit. How are you? Welcome, I'm great, how are you? I'm good. You guys have a food truck, so you can find you all around the city. Clearly, we're not at the truck. We are at Black Dog Gelato. You bet, we sure are. The kitchen where the Crave Bars are made. How did you even come up with this? We had a pretzel business for 17 years. My husband and partner had this idea to put ice cream on top of a pretzel stick, and then one thing led to another, and here we are. What is it about the Crave Bar that makes you guys Chicago's Best? All the things that we crave all in one. We've got a chocolate caramel pretzel stick, and then on top, we have Black Dog Gelato dipped in the finest Calabo chocolate. It's like the smartest idea. You can eat the whole thing. We like to say it takes you on a craving for the best in life. But we gotta make them first, so should we head in the kitchen? You bet, come on. All right, let's get our Crave on. I am pumped and ready to get started making our bars. First, we have to cut them. Once they're cut, it's time to Willy Wonka. My beautiful chocolate. Take our pretzel crunch. All right. And we're gonna pour it into our. Can I just take a taste? Absolutely. You know, you gotta sample the product. Sample that. Oh. And so we create this pretzel chocolate crunch. Now we're gonna dip them. We're ready to dip. You dip, I dip, we dip. Cover everything. There, you have the Crave bar. Are you kidding me? This is crazy. These need to go in the freezer and harden for a little while, but you have some already prepared. We'll meet you at the truck. See you there. Let's go, crew. A little trip down Michigan to Monroe to find out just what it is about this Cravings Crusher. Is this your first Crave bar? It is, and now I'll be craving it forever. Like, not on a cone, it's not on a stick. Pretzels and caramel, and then lots of chocolate. Anything with chocolate. You didn't know you could eat the stick? No, I didn't know that. Yeah, the stick is a pretzel rod dipped in caramel, then covered with chocolate. What an ingenious idea. It's blowing my mind. And it's about to blow mine. I've been craving this bar all day long. I'm so excited. Honestly, since we found out we were gonna be here, I've been craving it. Max on our app, we have to thank you because he said, who puts ice cream on a pretzel stick? That's crazy. Well, Max, it's crazy, and it's about to be crazy good. Cheers to your cravings. Cheers. All right, babes, I hope you're happy. Chocolate, salty, sweet. The chocolate's delicious. Super creamy. You get that nice crunch to get into it, and then it just melts in your mouth. And it's premium real chocolate. You know, that's really the difference. This is one of the most unique, cool treats we've had, and I've had a lot on the show. You've satisfied my craving.