Kohr Soft Serve Ice Cream Features Ube, Red Velvet and More

deleciousfood | July 20, 2024 | Chocolate | No Comments

Vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, cookies and cream: flavors like these are easy to find in an ice cream parlor.

But Kohr Soft Ice Cream, nestled along Route 9 in Tuckerton, offers flavors you might not expect.

There’s sweet matcha green tea, guava cheese and cherry bourbon, for example, as well as flavors inspired by owner Eva Kohr’s Filipino heritage: bright purple ube made from a sweet, slightly nutty yam, and buko pandan, based on a dessert made from coconut and pandan leaves.

“We kept the traditional flavors and over the years we added more and more,” said Kohr, who has owned the store for more than 20 years (her husband and co-owner, Paul, died in 2022).

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Kohr Soft Ice Cream is an independent, family-owned grocery store with roots in the Kohr family ice cream business, known for its custard stands on the Boardwalk for over a century. Kohr’s father-in-law, Morgan Kohr, ran Kohr Bros. with two of his brothers, while another brother ran Kohr’s Frozen Custard, The Original.

In her triangular-shaped shop, she makes 50 flavors of ice cream, or about five gallons a day during the shop’s season, from March to November.

The flavors rotate, with a new flavor added every month. The newest is Hawaiian Salted Caramel Chocolate Ice Cream made with Milo, a chocolate-flavored malt blend. The most popular flavors, Kohr says, are Cookie Dough, Mint Chocolate Chip, Espresso Chocolate Chip and Fudge Brownie.

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The shop also offers soft-serve ice cream (not Kohr’s traditional custard, which is made with eggs), sorbet, water ice, gourmet ice cream sandwiches, sundaes, milkshakes and a small menu of hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, chicken tenders and fries.

The shop is one of a dozen participating in the “I Licked My Way Through NJ” tour, which invites customers to visit through August and win free scoops of ice cream. Kohr meets people from all over New Jersey, she said.

Fans also flock to the store’s halo-halo celebrations, which feature a layered Filipino dessert made with shaved ice, flavored gels, custard, coconut, red mung beans and condensed milk (upcoming dates are Saturday, July 27, Saturday, August 31 and Sunday, September 1).

“People came from 30 miles away,” Kohr said.

Go: 682 Route 9, Tuckerton; 609-294-1282, instagram.com/kohrsofticecream.

Sarah Griesemer joined the USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey in 2003 and has been writing about all things food since 2014. Send your restaurant tips to sgriesemer@gannettnj.com, Follow us on Instagram at Jersey Shore Eats and subscribe to our Jersey Shore Eats newsletter.

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