Sampaguita Ice Cream of Pine Hills

Sampaguita Ice Cream of Pine Hills is an ice cream shop in Pine Hills, Florida, located at 1233 E Colonial Dr. The shop makes Filipino-inspired ice cream and baked goods, serving handmade flavors in a cup with a complimentary cake cone or in a waffle cone. Its flavor list includes Banoffee Pie, made with toffee ice cream, fresh banana chunks, a dulce de leche swirl and cinnamon graham cracker crunch; Champorado, a dark chocolate ice cream with chocolate covered puffed rice and a sweet condensed milk swirl; Keso Guava Cheesecake, a mild cheddar cheesecake ice cream with scratch-made guava preserve; Mango Peach Pie; Pineapple Cake; Soysauce Butterscotch, a brown sugar and vanilla ice cream with umami notes of soy sauce and a hint of Maldon salt; Birthday Mamon, a birthday cake batter ice cream with cream cheese and housemade yellow sponge cake; Ube Cookies 'N Cream; Milo Rocky Road; and Sampaguita, an almond vanilla bean ice cream with a hint of jasmine. It holds a rating of 4.80 from the customers who have reviewed it.

The shop describes itself as an exploration of Filipino culture through ice cream, built around family traditions and self-identity. Its stated aim is to create fun and fanciful flavors with meaning and nuance, using ice cream to capture memories of childhood, stories and generational folklore, and sweet moments with loved ones, and to process what it means to live between cultures as Filipino-American. The owners trace the shop's beginnings to a mango tree in a South Florida neighborhood where eight-year-old Marie Mercado lived. Neighbors whose tree produced more fruit than one family could eat left bags of ripened mangoes at her doorstep each season, and when her family spotted a hand-churning ice cream machine on sale at the local supermarket, they began turning the surplus mangoes into ice cream, experimenting with ube, coconut and mango. Each summer their home became a source of freshly churned ice cream for family and friends, and the owners say they put everything they had earned into building the store.

Sampaguita Ice Cream of Pine Hills sits on East Colonial Drive in Pine Hills, Florida.