21 Best Ice Cream Truck Treats, Ranked

Think fast! The ice cream truck is about to peel out, and you have three seconds to run up and choose a treat. Which do you pick? 

It’s arguably the hardest choice you ever had to make as a child. It’s not much easier now, if we’re being honest, so we rounded up the best ice cream truck treats of all time to give you a head start.

Full disclosure: It might backfire and make the choice even harder, because they all look flawless. Good luck. 

Maker: Popsicle

Why they’re amazing: The first popsicle was patented in 1923 by a young man named Frank Epperson. He actually evented it over a decade earlier when he was just 11. (It’s somehow fitting that a classic ice cream truck treat was invented by a kid, isn’t it?) Years later, the Creamsicle was added to the Popsicle brand’s arsenal.

It combined orange sherbet with vanilla ice cream. Weird combo, but it was great. For some reason, moms seemed to always choose Creamsicles, and we would always steal a bite. 

Maker: Popsicle

Why they’re amazing: Whoever invented the snow cone was a genius. It’s literally just a cup full of crushed ice doused in flavored syrup. But when you spot someone walking by with a garishly colored snow cone on a particularly sunny day, you immediately start looking for the ice cream truck it originated from. It looks so good. You need one.

It was even better if you could eat it while taking a break from a long, hot day at the pool. The food dye probably isn’t great for you, but a snow cone every once in awhile never killed anyone.

Maker: Mars

Why they’re amazing: The very first Snickers bar hit the shelves in 1930. It took a full 64 years for the company to test out a Snickers ice cream treat, but when they did, it was a huge hit. The Snickers ice cream cone was launched during National Ice Cream Month in July 1994. The version on a stick was added two years later. 

The vanilla ice cream, chocolate and peanuts were similar to several other popular ice cream truck treats, but the Snickers bar includes something unique: thick, gooey caramel. Is 9 a.m. too early for ice cream? We’re asking for a friend.

Maker: Good Humor

Why they’re amazing: There are lots of ice cream bars that involve vanilla ice cream and milk chocolate. It’s a whole thing. Good Humor thought, hmmm, how can we make this better? Duh! More chocolate!

This is basically a Crunch bar with a healthy-sized chunk of chocolate shoved into the middle. The brand name was always the most popular, but the true ice cream lovers knew this one was even better.