If the "Got Milk" white-mustachioed celebrity athletes and promises of strong bones and teeth don’t get you extremely hyped to guzzle some liquid calcium, allow us to introduce you to Indigo Cow. It’s a soft serve window in Wallingford that sources its dairy specifically from Hokkaido to make unflavored ice cream. Apparently, these Japanese cows know something the American ones don’t, because the end result is a barely-there sweetness and a refreshing texture.

The affogato is a genius invention. But when you swap out gelato for velvety soft serve, which is exactly what's happening at Mainstay Provisions, it's even better. Since this cafe's freshly-piped vanilla is so smooth and porous, the hot espresso poured on top steeps each bite, flavoring the ice cream throughout with bittersweet latte essence. When you require dessert and caffeination all at once, it hits just right.

Fun fact: Washington is the top commercial producer of rhubarb in the U.S., so it’s fitting that The Flora Bakehouse’s rhubarb sundae is a winner. It has custardy vanilla soft serve, ribbons of gingery rhubarb compote, and crunched-up meringue. Light enough to eat before a hike and served at a vegetarian bakery that has an urban rooftop garden—it doesn’t get more PNW than that, folks. Note that you can also get their soft serve pumped into a hollowed-out croissant.

If you almost skipped this guide because you keep a Lactaid sewn into your pants pocket at all times, just wait. This whimsical coffee shop in Mt. Baker serves vegan soft serve every day. That's right—all three flavors are made with oat milk, so no need to work a “dairy day” into your schedule. While you can pass on the overwhelmingly oaty and sweet vanilla, the chocolate and orange creamsicle flavors are both rich and refreshing. Order it piped into a birthday cake, blue corn, or orange cone.

The Pastry Project is not an ice cream shop—it's an organization that provides baking training to those who face barriers. And in the summer on weekends, their front door turns into a soft serve window, selling cones, cups, ice cream cakes, and cookie sandwiches. While they typically have standard flavors like (purple) vanilla and chocolate, they're delicious, and made even better when loaded with The Pastry Project's homemade peanut crunch topping.

The soft serve flavors at this sit-down Jamaican-inspired restaurant change weekly and range from apple pie to wedding cake, and we advise you to please save room for it after your meal. Consider a swirl, since the two flavors always complement each other—like the heat and salt of ras el hanout cooled down by buttery white chocolate.

Milk Drunk is one of the newer spots on the list, and it deserves to be here for their chocolate soft serve alone. It’s a little malty, not too sweet, and pairs really well with an order of mozzarella sticks dipped in herby green aioli. In addition to vanilla and malted chocolate, this fried chicken sandwich shop on Beacon Hill serves two rotating vegan flavors (some examples are coconut fig and rainier cherry), and they’re so good that we sometimes crave those over the dairy options.

Before Milk Drunk, there was Homer, the same team’s excellent Mediterranean restaurant down the street. There are only two ice cream flavors available at any given time, but they’re both usually just as tasty as they are unique—like chocolate bay leaf and vegan tahini, or vanilla whey and summer melon. Grab a cup to eat on the way back to the car if you’ve ordered some mezze plates for takeout.

If you couldn’t care less about ice cream infused with herbs or wild seasonal berries, go to Little Coney at Golden Gardens. This burger and fries spot (where we don’t really care about either of those things) serves great soft serve, and we recommend ordering a towering supermarket cake cone pumped with artificially-flavored swirl, adding some sprinkles, and then taking it to Little Coney’s outdoor patio seating. Otherwise known as the beach.

You may know this Filipino bakery for its mini purple cheesecakes, but now there's purple soft serve. Hood Famous' summer ice cream comes in both ube and sweetened condensed milk flavors, and a swirl of both has a great tang and subtle salty notes that pair perfectly with a toasty ube cookie shoved on top. Or better yet, make a sandwich with two of them.