Steel City Pops – A Surprise Find! – Austin, TX

The best thing in the world is stumbling unexpectedly upon a great gluten free find. It’s like a little gift just for you!

I was driving through Austin on my way to a friend’s event and was craving ice cream (which I often am as you’ll quickly find if you frequent this blog). As I turned a corner, I passed this shop called Steel City Pops. I had never heard of it, but from the pictures on the sign I could tell it was a popsicle shop. It looked a little like one of those hipster places that probably charges to much for one “artisan” popsicle, but it was popsicles so I had to investigate.

A quick Google once I parked confirmed that they were indeed a little pricier, but I was already ready to give it a try. And then I clicked on the nutrition information and- GLUTEN FREE. Everything in this entire place is gluten free!

Steel City Pops serves 4 types of popsicles: Fruit, Creamy, Cookie and Paleo. You’d expect the Fruit (water based pops) and Creamy (milk based pops) to be GF, but imagine my surprise when I click the details of the Chocolate Brownie pop and see “gluten-free brownie” in the ingredients. I scrolled through the toppings and just kept seeing gluten free after gluten free. So now I HAD to go.

The aesthetic of the shop does have a sweet hipster vibe. The process is essentially this:

1. Choose a popsicle from the groups above. They have so many options all GF! Including 5 Cookie pops with gluten free cookies! I chose a GF chocolate brownie. Fruit and Creamy are $3.59, Paleo is $3.99, Cookie is $4.59.
2. Then you can either pay for that pop and go OR you can add toppings! It’s a flat rate for all 4 topping options. You can chose any combination of the following.
3. First, you can get the pop Dipped. This is several choices of chocolate dips from white to dark. I went with a nice dark chocolate.
4. Second, you can get it Dredged. This is a bunch of choices of various crumbly things they stick on top of the pop. Two of which are GF cookie crumbs! I opted for the GF graham cracker.
5. Third, you can get Drizzle which is a bunch of sauces. I chose raspberry.
6. Last, you can get a Dust which is essentially just an extra sprinkle of flavor.

And all of this is for the same price so you can really load up! My final popsicle was incredible. The cookie and ice cream combo was so delicious and not something you can often find outside of homemade with GF.

They serve it to you in a little cardboard bowl to make it less messy.

You definitely don’t need more than one per person because this was more than enough for me.

They also have all kinds of suggested combos to achieve flavors like Caramel Peanut Butter Cup and S’mores and White Chocolate Wedding Cake.

TL;DR – This popsicle shop was a great chance find and truly a highlight of my night. I’m always willing to spend a little extra money to try a new gluten free find, but this was so worth it. Delicious and fun with tons of options because everything is Gluten Free! I’ll definitely be back.