Top Treats in St. Pete Beach, Treasure Island: Did They Get it Right?

The following local ice cream and dessert shops have the highest current ratings on Urbanspoon. Do you agree with the picks?

Below are the top St. Pete Beach and Treasure Island Ice Cream & Dessert Shops as rated on Urbanspoon.com. What do you think of the rankings? Are the users of Urbanspoon getting it right? Tell us in the comments section 1. Beach Snoballs, 85% positive reviews 2. Shake Shop, 90%  3. Larry's Olde Fashioned Ice Cream, 85% 4. Super Scoops, 81% 5. Paradise Sweets, 95% 6. Twistee Treat, 80% Ratings are based on rankings, reviews and other data. You can also leave a review for your neighbors to see by going to the Pinellas Beaches Patch directory and leaving a review. Sign up for the Pinellas Beaches Patch email newsletter to get our top headlines delivered straight to your inbox so you won't miss a thing!

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Beach Snoballs Keeps it Fresh for Fall

With cooler weather coming up, Beach Snoballs is working at coming up with ways to keep customers craving their icy snacks.

School’s back in session and Autumn is fast approaching, but Beach Snoballs has some new additions to keep the customers coming back for their delicious frozen treats. One of the biggest additions to Beach Snoballs’ lineup is the addition of the spiked snoball, a flavored snoball with up to three shots of tequila, vodka or rum. The spiked snoballs have been around since mid-April, but the team at Beach Snoballs believes that the addition of alcohol will help bring in a more varied crowd. “Now we’ve got something for the parents, so they can come and hang out on the beach and get a snoball,” said Morgan Wujkowski, co-owner of Beach Snoballs. Spiking the snoballs has been something that the team at Beach Snoballs has wanted to get into …

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Behind the Counter at Beach Snoballs

Our Customer Service champs let us know how they make their delicious treats so good!

Beach Snoballs recently took the top spot in our customer service competition on the beaches. The customer service has definitely won the beaches over and it only complements their unique take on the delicious, frosty treat. The owners of Beach Snoballs allowed Patch to get a behind the scenes look into what goes into making their awesome snoballs. The ladies of Beach Snoballs walk us through the steps to get a wonderfully soft cream-filled Sunset Snoball in this video.

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Snoballs Freezes Out the Competition

The flavored shaved ice place wins the Patch Customer Service contest.

From banana to cherry, Beach Snoballs offers 55 flavors of shaved ice. The dessert shack on Treasure Island is an oasis from the sun and sand, a cool respite popular with locals and tourists. Beach Snoballs snowed the competition in Patch's Best Customer Service contest, beating a field of 64 contenders. Second place honors go to Digital Eel design firm. But the clear – and cool – champ is Beach Snoballs. The owners of Beach Snoballs like to boast that their icy treats are as smooth as velvet. Readers could not agree more: "On a hot day, snoballs are a great treat!" says reader and unabashed fan Ann Sweitzer. "The flavors are so much fun. I want to keep going back until I've tried all of them! Catcus Juice is next on my list!" Reader Joe …

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Leigh Armstrong

9:53 am on Thursday, April 5, 2012

Congratulations to Beach Snoballs and thanks to all of our wonderful businesses who participated!   more ›

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Beach Snoballs Is a Tropical Destination

With ambitious owners, top-shelf ingredients and unmatched customer service, Beach Snoballs is a business force to be reckoned with on the Pinellas Beaches.

When Beach Snoballs fopened in spring 2009, September Howat and Morgan Wujkowski were regular tourists of the area. They were immediately drawn to the icy cool treats that were served up, New Orleans style. “We were hooked from the first snoball because the ice is shaved to a powder, so it's soft and velvety,” said Howat. Now, less than three years later, Howat and Wujkowski own the joint known as Beach Snoballs. Howat is a graduate of Ferris State University with a Masters in Business Administration while Wujkowski earned her Bachelor’s from the University of Michigan. When the two started dating several years ago, they say that they never imagined owning a business together. In 2010, the duo made their annual trip to Treasure Island. …

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