Kayla’s Kustard Corner

closed… at least the ice cream part of it is…

The décor is quite tacky and as mentioned in several previous reviews it is a plant shop/​ice cream shop and sells Christmas trees at different times of the year. All In all good ice cream. However is cash only if I recall correctly.

This place is an identity crisis. They couldn’t decide if they wanted to be a plant shop or an ice cream shop so it’s both. Once you walk through all the hanging flowers for sale, and the random life size Batman statue, you can get to the ice cream, I mean, custard ordering stand.
Anyway, despite all of that, the custard IS good. To my knowledge you can’t get just custard anywhere else besides Rita’s, and even though I love love love Rita’s this is a nice alternative.

Decent place with plenty of seats, great place to bring kids with lots of novelty items. They have swing chairs too, to relax on. Go on monday for cheap milkshakes.

Not the cheapest dessert place but it’s worth to stop by if you’re in the area because they have really funny statues of really weird things. They claim to have a lot of unique flavors of ice cream, but I just went with a water ice which was good!

I love this place, though I will admit that despite what my ID says, I am still a huge kid. I love the whole personality of Kayla’s, from the gliders to the talking cows. And I can enjoy all this while also treating myself to custard (soft serve for those not in the know), and fro yo? It doesn’t get better than that.
A few things to know: The «small» size is huge! And a lot of what you can order only come in one size — which translates to really, really huge! And the other is that they accept credit cards, but only if you order $ 10 or more, which is not easy to do if you do not have a family in tow.

I used to work at a custard stand when I was young, so I know better than to try any of the 20 flavors the sign on Kayla’s Kustard Corner boasts. Those things are definitely a gimmick for kids. That said, I went with one of my tried and true favorites the other night– vanilla and chocolate twist with chocolate jimmies. The cone was supposed to be the regular size, but it was enormous and I didn’t even make leeway on the cone itself before throwing in the towel. With that said, I don’t complain about being served too much ice cream. Nope, not this girl.
I have to agree with the other reviewer in that the chocolate was a bit texturized… It looked like little flecks of chocolate, which didn’t bother me, but I liked the vanilla better, nonetheless. Next time I’ll go with my true favorite, vanilla with rainbow jimmies.
It’s not the best custard around, but it’s not a bad option, either.
PS, For anyone wondering about the future of the garden center that was run by the same owner, I asked the other evening and, to my chagrin, they will only be offering mums on Easter and Mother’s day. Guess this means I’ll be schlepping to Home Depot for my hanging basket gifts…

Kayla’s Garden Center has morphed into the newly-​opened Kayla’s Kustard Corner, a colorful and kid-​friendly custard shop. Kayla’s features special events with clowns and face-​painting, glider seating for families to rock in, and life-​sized statues of smiling cows which seem to suggest the product is fresh from a verdant Vermont farm. On a busy corner with lots of parking, the business seem to be thriving.
The only product the teens at Kayla’s serve is custard, but they can swirl it for you in about 20 different flavors by glopping it into a machine and squirting in a bottled flavor (I tried German Chocolate). I found it slightly disturbing to see how this works – that my flavor comes from the kind of plastic bottle my hairdresser uses to squeeze color onto my roots – but I guess it would be naïve to believe they have that many fresh flavor options on hand. And the German Chocolate was tasty in a chemically-​enhanced way, I must say.
However, both other times I was there I got a classic vanilla/​chocolate twist, and while the vanilla was creamy and yummy, the chocolate was gritty, like they hadn’t mixed in the chocolate-​flavored particles thoroughly enough with the dairy-​palm oil-​plastic cement mix (I’m just guessing at the ingredients – there may not be any dairy in it at all). The effect was a good flavor with an off-​putting texture.
The flavor-​creating, neon-​colored liquids explain why signs abound declaring «no samples.» There are no sizes either – no matter what you ask for, you’ll get as much goop as they can load onto a cone without toppling it.
Kayla’s (I was wondering why they didn’t cute-​ify the word «Corner» in the name until I realized its acronym would have been «KKK») is the kind of place small kids likely won’t let you drive past without stopping. But if there are no voices in the back seat imploring you to do so, when you get that kustard kraving keep on driving north on Cuthbert, make a right on Haddon, and plant yourself at Primo’s – another seasonal, family-​run ice-​cream business with far better prices, options, and products.