There’s an “artisan, small-batch, homemade ice cream rush” going on in the Seattle area. Ice creameries with shops and often farmer’s market stalls include Half-Pint Ice Cream, Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream, Whidbey Island Ice Cream Co., Empire Ice Cream, and the very new Poco Carretto gelato cart from Holly Smith (of Cafe Juanita, fresh winner of a James Beard award). Yet to come, Full Tilt Ice Cream and Peaks Frozen Custard. Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream has been around since 1997 and supplies dairy mixes to some of the newcomers. You’ll find variations on vanilla everywhere, but most carry their own specialty exotic flavors such as balsamic strawberry, lemon verbena, fennel seed, honeycomb.