MAINEVILLE, Ohio — Whipty-Do, an ice cream shop that’s just a short drive from King’s Island, is celebrating the arrival of Brood XIV by featuring a cicada sundae with a crunchy treat on top.
“The cicadas emerging is such a unique event and we thought it would be fun to lean into the bizarreness of it,” said Joe Fields, who owns the shop with his wife, Kristen.
The ice-cream shop introduced its new creation in a Facebook post.
Each sundae features a “cicada” on top. The owners didn’t use real cicadas, but tried a few different things to get the look as close as they could.
The body is made from a chocolate-covered date with red M&Ms as the eyes and Golden Oreos as the wings.
“Dates are delicious and we’ve never used them in anything else, but maybe we should reconsider,” Fields said. “The wings were the hardest, but Golden Oreos seemed to work the best with everything that we tried.”
The cicada sundae is available now until it sells out.
Whipty-Do is located at 2529 U.S. 22 in Maineville.
The ice cream shop’s drive-thru is open noon to 10 p.m. with a walk-up window open noon to 9:30 p.m. daily.
For more information, visit whiptydo.com
