Carousel IceCream

For more than twenty-five years, Carousel has been making ice cream the family way in Melbourne's east, out of a creamery and production room at Bayswater North. The cabinet is generous — around thirty dairy flavours, a dozen non-dairy and a few frozen yoghurts — with a following built on signatures like Marble Crunch, Cappuccino, Boysenberry Cheese and Honeycomb. Beyond the scoop it's a genuine party headquarters: bespoke ice-cream cakes, and towering ice-cream mountains for a crowd that scale from an eight-scoop Mount Baw Baw to a 250-scoop Mount Everest. The operation stays proudly local and 100% Australian-owned, stocked around the suburbs and forever tinkering with what's next, a summer dessert menu among them. It's a working creamery with a sweet tooth of its own — the kind of place that's been quietly making Melburnians happy for a generation.