Sweet success: Sisters upgrade from ice cream truck to shop
By Corey Beckman
Made in Tampa Bay: American Honey Creamery in Palmetto
The Converse sisters make all their own ice cream in six-quart batches. American Honey, a salted vanilla honey flavor, and Coffee Oreo are two are their biggest sellers.
PALMETTO, Fla. - After two years of making and selling small-batch ice cream out of a truck, two sisters fulfilled their dream of opening a brick-and-mortar ice cream shop earlier this year.
Ali and Mindy Converse are now the proud owners behind American Honey Creamery and Coffee Co. in Palmetto.
After Michelle Noel was downsized from her corporate sales job a few months into the pandemic, she decided to take it upon herself to tackle Lakewood Ranch’s ice cream accessibility problem.
It’s not that the ice cream in that part of Manatee County leaves anything to be desired – far from it. Big Olaf ice cream, which has a location in Lakewood Ranch, is the stuff of local beach vacation legends. There’s also Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt, D’Lites Shoppe, and in Palmetto, American Honey Creamery & Coffee Co.
But the issue, Noel said, is that there still isn’t enough ice cream to go around.
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