Ice cream best bets on Long Island

July 9, 2013 5:51 PM

What makes ice cream worth going out for is the use of real vanilla, fine cocoa and fresh fruit. Most important, it takes an ice-cream chef with a burning passion for frozen desserts. Here are more than two dozen shops that consistently deliver sweet, creamy goodness in the face of summer swelter. They are worth the trip. --ERICA MARCUS/erica.marcus@newsday.com