Udder Heaven Ice Cream Retreat®

The flavor case runs sixty deep.

Hard ice cream, soft serve, sherbet and sorbet, scooped daily in season in Bar Harbor, Maine.

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  • Maine Blueberry Blueberry flavor and filling with Maine blueberries
  • Dirt sundae seen from above: whipped cream, a cherry, crushed cookies and gummy worms
  • Whoopie Pie Chocolate ice cream with whoopie pie pieces and streaks of whoopie pie filling
  • Maple Bacon Maple flavor with real maple syrup and bacon pieces
  • Blueberry 3.14 Blueberry pie ingredients with Maine blueberries
  • Mud Flats Lighter chocolate with chopped Oreo cookies, broken waffle cones, Nestle Crunch and caramel swirl
  • Kookie Monstah Vanilla ice cream with chocolate chip cookies
  • Dark Chocolate a review favorite
  • Lemon Gingersnap a review favorite
  • 8 of 60+ Every flavor in the case is made in-house.
Brownie sundae with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, hot fudge and a cherry
The warm brownie sundae, hot fudge and all.
Chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwich rolled in rainbow sprinkles
The cookie ice cream sandwich, rolled in sprinkles.

Indulgences

Warm baked things under cold scooped things.

  • Pastor Benson's Brownie Temptation

    Choice of ice cream and the allure of a warm 'Heaven'-baked brownie with hot fudge, whipped cream, chocolate sprinkles and the persuasive cherry

  • Preacher Patterson's Whoopie in Paradise

    Choice of ice cream and the bliss of a 'Heaven' whoopie pie, hot fudge, whipped cream, rainbow sprinkles and the coveted cherry

  • Parson Rumill's Cookie Comfort

    Choice of ice cream and the serenity of a warm 'Heaven'-baked chocolate chip cookie with hot fudge, whipped cream, cookie dust and the tranquil cherry

  • Piety ala Mode

    Your choice of ice cream canonized with a slice of warm or cold blueberry pie, whipped cream and the righteous cherry

  • Chaplain Charlie's Cookie Cowmandment Sandwich

    Hard ice cream inscribed between 'Heaven'-baked chocolate chip cookie tablets. Unlawfully good - break the rules with some sprinkles

Two of these honor real Bar Harbor clergy: Rob Benson of the Bar Harbor Congregational Church and Preacher Patterson of River Church.

The brownies, cookies, blueberry pies and whoopie pies (traditional, Maine blueberry and pumpkin spice) all come out of the shop's own ovens. The menu calls that case A Parish of Pastries.

Grails of Goodness

Frappes, sodas and floats, poured tall.

  • Friar's Frappe

    Some call it a 'shake' - a parochial blending of their special milk base and your choice of hard ice cream, 22 oz; add malt

  • Sister Sarina's Old Fashioned Ice Cream Soda

    Flavor syrup stirred with cream and soda water, hard ice cream added until the 22 oz cup bubbles over

  • Float of Faith

    Your choice of ice cream adrift in your choice of soda - local Old Soaker Root Beer is 'The Orthodox Choice'

  • Manna From Maine

    Vanilla soft serve in a parfait of semi-frozen Maine blueberries and hot fudge, 16 oz

Prices are posted at the shop.

Portions, measured in baseballs

Scoops here are baseball size, and the sizes have names.

The Little Angel The Regular Saint The Big Believer

Can't pick one? A Flight From Heaven is the four scoop sampler.

The church of ice cream on Dreamwood Hill

Bob Wisecarver worked in insurance around Boston; his wife's career was in education. After 27-plus years of vacationing in Bar Harbor, the couple bought the Dreamwood Hill building at 369 Rt. 3 in 2005 and remodeled it over several years with their daughter and local carpenter Brian Shaw.

Udder Heaven opened in 2008 scooping a regional distributor's premium ice cream. In 2012 the shop switched to making its own, and today the case runs hard ice cream, soft serve, frozen yogurt, sherbet, sorbet, Italian ice and non-dairy desserts (non-dairy is served in cups).

The hard ice cream mix is 14% butterfat, made with Maine milk from farms without added growth hormones and pasteurized for a short shelf life to keep it fresh. The chief ice cream maker trained through programs at Cornell, Penn State, Wisconsin, Florida, Ice Cream University and Pre-Gel of America, and the shop belongs to the North American Ice Cream Association.

It is a first job for a lot of local kids, and the shop gives back through the Bar Harbor Backpack Program, Garden Club scholarships and scholarships for its own employees.

14%
butterfat in the hard ice cream mix
60+
flavors made in-house
2008
family-run since
Double scoop of purple wild blueberry ice cream in a waffle cone, pine trees behind
Maine Blueberry, on a waffle cone under the pines.

4.7

stars across 550+ Google reviews

Read them on Google

“Great service. Generous servings. Great flavors, very creamy”

Google review (via Restaurant Guru), ca. 2025

“The dark chocolate was my favorite... ended up loving the Lemon Gingersnap”

Google review (via Restaurant Guru), ca. 2025

“Very good ice cream very awesome people working there. Very creative names”

Google review (via Restaurant Guru), ca. 2025

On Route 3, across from Pirates Cove

369 State Highway 3 (ME-3), Bar Harbor, ME 04609

Open daily in season, 12:00 PM - 9:00 PM.

It's a seasonal shop and hours can shift, so call ahead if you're making the drive.

Udder Heaven shares its building, and even its front door, with Mainely Meat BBQ. They're two separate, independent businesses under one roof, which makes dinner-then-dessert very easy.

Call (207) 288-2233
Call (207) 288-2233