Just in time for summer, Sweet Peaks opens scoop shop in downtown Spokane

Sweet Peaks is opening an ice cream shop in downtown Spokane on Friday.

The Montana-based ice creamery already has a location in the Inland Northwest – in downtown Coeur d’Alene. The new Spokane location marks the regional chain’s first scoop shop in Washington state.

It opens at 415 W. Main St. at 11:30 a.m. Friday.

Founded in 2010, Sweet Peaks opened its CdA store in spring 2016. It was the first in the regional chain to be located outside of Montana. Other locations are in Whitefish, Missoula, Bigfork, Bozeman and Kalispell.

Each shop usually features nine signature flavors, plus another six to eight rotating flavors.

Classics are chocolate, vanilla, grasshopper mint, huckleberry, salty caramel, honey cinnamon, cupcake, espresso and coconut.

Seasonal flavors include orange cardamom, brown butter peach, chocolate-covered potato chip, peanut butter bacon, Bear Scat with chocolate-covered blueberries and Montana Christmas with Douglas fir tip-infused cream and a huckleberry swirl.

Most don’t include artificial flavor or color. Sweet Peaks also opts for natural stabilizers: guar gum in the ice cream and tapioca starch in the egg-free, non-dairy sorbet. The ice cream contains eggs and is made from a base using milk and cream from Montana dairies.

Find Sweet Peaks on the web at www.sweetpeaksicecream.com.