Mint Chip and Vanilla ice creams striped in chocolate syrup, Fluffy Marshmallow glaze and Crème de Menthe finished with home-made whipped cream and a mint green maraschino cherry.
11 $
Homemade Hot Fudge
Two dipperfuls of PHILADELPHIA vanilla bean ice cream suffocated in Franklin Fountain Hot Fudge and topped with our fresh whipped cream and a cherry a true American icon. Wilbur’s dark chocolate is churned Smooth with fresh local milk, cream and butter, then cooked on-site in our antique copper candy kettle. Honest ingredients are the best policy for flavor.
9 $
The Lightening Rod
A dark chocolate brownie surmounted by COFFEE ice cream bathed in a SHOT of ESPRESSO and peppered with chocolate covered espresso beans, white chocolate shavings and finished with a salty pretzel rod. will surely ELECTRIFY even the most enervated.
12 $
Mt.Vesuvius
A mountain of CHOCOLATE or VANILLA ice cream ERUPTING with chocolate brownie pieces, CASCADING with hot fudge and BLANKETED in malt powder. A dollop of whipped cream indicates her smoking signal. A true display of Pomp-eii circumstance.
11 $
Southern Sympathizer
Rum Raisin and Pistachio ice creams with pecans and pistachios Smothered in hot caramel and Studded with Praline brittle.This Franklin Fountain original is as pretty as a sweet-talking Louisiana Girl in her Sunday best.
12 $
Peach Melba Parfait
Fresh Peach ice cream Doused with rasberry puree, sprinkled with diced almonds and finished with a collar of RUFFLED whipped cream. Following soprano Nellie Melba’s performance of Wagner’s “Lohengrin” in 1893, French chef Auguste Escoffier was moved to create an exquisite dessert for Dame Nellie. This is a variation on Escoffier’s famous dessert.
9.5 $
The Stock Market Crunch
Rocky Road ice cream coated in thick peanut butter sauce and paved with crumbled salt pretzels. William Dreyer and Joseph Edy concocted the first batch of rocky road ice cream in 1929 following the great stock market crash to give consumers something to SMILE about during the impending Depression.
11 $
Broken Hearts
Put a slice of BRICK VANILLA ice cream on a 6-inch plate. Cover the ice cream with fresh, sweetened, and slightly mashed strawberries, and over these put sweetened whipped cream; top off with two whole strawberries and serve with two nabisco wafers. Sells for 20 cents. {F. Varney}
11 $
Splits
Dr. Doveys Classic Banana Split
In a proper banana boat is placed a banana, SPLIT lengthwise with one scoop each of VANILLA, STRAWBERRY and CHOCOLATE ice creams covered in crushed pineapple, strawberry topping and chocolate syrup, garnished with whipped cream, chopped nuts and two marashino cherries. Originated in 1904 by pharmacist David Strickler in Latrobe, PA. An apprentice, Howard Dovey, brought the BANANA SPLIT to PHILADELPHIA where he attended medical school. Dr. Dovey is credited with popularizing the FAMOUS dessert by instructing PHILADELPHIA soda dispensers on how to make a SPLIT properly. We hope he’d be proud of ours, served in an authentic period dish.
15 $
Tarzan of the Apes
This swinging swashbuckler was born in 1912 by a middle-aged pencil sharpener salesman named Edgar Rice Burroughs. As the story goes, a supple young man (a generous serving of Vanilla) with Ape blood (CHOCOLATE syrup) is raised on tropical FRUITS (bananas & berries) and crowned King of the Jungle (whipped cream headband). This dessert’s Intelligent Design makes for a SLIPPERY slope and can SPLIT audiences right down the middle!
11 $
Banana Split for my Baby
A smaller variation of the American classic, inspired by Louis Primas 1949 tune for that waist-conscious lady or man. A banana sliced into coins LADEN with VANILLA and PEANUT BUTTER ice creams coated with wet walnuts, peanut butter sauce, Spanish peanuts and finished with whipped cream and one cherry.
13 $
Cups and Cones
Cups
Franklin Fountain Ice Cream is hand-made in Philadelphia of the purest, premium ingredients and packed in the original ice cream carton, patented in 1894 by F. W. Wilcox. We offer our prize-winning ice cream in three different sizes– Small, Medium, and Large (1 Pint).
Cones
Our waffle cones are made in house– cooked on old-fashioned irons, and rolled by a trained expert! And what could be more nostalgic than enjoying an ice cream cone on a sunny day? We also offer sugar and cake cones.
Small
4.9 $
Medium
6.15 $
Large
7.4 $
Milkshakes
Regular
7.5 $
Large
8.5 $
From The Fountain
Choice of 25 flavors!
Regular
2.5 $
Large
3.5 $
Japanese Thirst Killer Phosphate
Orgeat {almond}, Grape juice, & Angostura Bitters with Phosphate
5 $
Hemingway's Dream
A phosphorescent "Green Fairy" compiled and revised with sweetened organic lemon juice, fresh mint and anise syrups, seltzer, citric acid and an absinthe-soaked sugar cube reminiscent of the Old Man from the Western Key.