Knoke's Chocolates

On Saturday we started our day in Cambridge, so Paul could run a 5k in support of his youngest sibling's youth group. I don't usually go and watch Paul run a 5k since it is usually early, and done in 20+ minutes, and it tends to be more trouble to wake Jackson or get a babysitter for such a short time, so it was fun to actually see him run a short race. Quite a few members of his family were running too, and it was great to see them all out running. We wanted to take the opportunity to find a local ice cream shop a little farther from home, but sadly it seems that a lot of those small towns only have a Dairy Queen as an ice cream shop.

We were off to Hudson then to meet up with my good friend Erin, and try the ice cream shop there that a friend had told us about. We went to Knoke's Chocolates, it was a fun shop selling fun candy, chocolates and ice cream- it kind of reminded me of the candy shop in Willy Wonka with the dark wood shelving all around. They sell Brown's and Cedar Crest ice cream, so we knew right away that the ice cream would be good. I had Brown's White Chocolate Raspberry Swirl, which was almost identical to the Cedar Crest version except this one had a syrupy, preserves type raspberry swirl instead of fresh raspberries- I would much rather have the fresh raspberry swirl any day. Paul had Brown's Rum Black Cherry, which he enjoyed and was as he expected, and Jackson had his favorite Cedar Crest Pirates Booty. It was $1.90 for 1 scoop and $2.37 for 2, which we thought was pretty reasonable and the scoops weren't as big as some places, but the price seemed in good correlation to the scoop size. There wasn't anywhere to sit inside the shop, so we had to sit outside, but the ice cream didn't melt too quickly despite the heat.

It was a cute shop, and perfect to go with the rest of the historic Hudson area there. We are going to have to try the chocolates next time, but knew with the warm day we would end up carrying around with melting chocolate. We enjoyed walking around and visiting some of the shops nearby, along with walking down by the river. We are glad that we made a stop at Knoke's, and know that when were are in historic Hudson again, there is a place to stop for quality ice cream.