You Gotta Try This: Summer Collection at Candy Cloud in Rockford

By Mary Sisk
Rock River Current
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You Gotta Try This is the Rock River Current’s dining feature focused on signature dishes at your favorite local restaurants. Want to see one of your favorites here? Email news@rockrivercurrent.com to suggest a local staple. 

Where: Candy Cloud

Address: 6286 E. State St., Rockford

Owner: Alex and Paityn Edwards

Hours: 10 a.m.- 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, 10 a.m.- 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday

You have to try: The Summer Collection

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What’s in it: Summer collection flavors include Apple Crisp Ice Cream, Lemonberry Slush Float, Raspberry Iced Tea Lemonade and Horchata Slush Float

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Why should you try it: The recent heat wave has been intense, but Alex and Paityn Edwards took some of their most popular items and gave them a chilled, summery twist to help everyone cool down.

Bestsellers, like their strawberry lemonade, inspired their lemonberry slush float in the new line.

“We thought if they love it as a drink, everyone would love it as a slush,” Alex Edwards said.

Their other drinks in the collection include an apple crisp ice cream, raspberry iced tea lemonade and a horchata slush float.

Another reason to give their new line a try is that everything in their drinks is made fresh, in-store.

“The apple crisp is baked everyday. The lemonade for the lemonberry slush float, our lemons are squeezed everyday,” Edwards said.

Pro tip: If you try to eat plant-based, get oat milk instead of dairy in your drink.

This article is by Mary Sisk. Email her at msisk@rockrivercurrent.com or follow her on Instagram at @maryrrcurrent.

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