By JACLYN RINK

Contributing Reporter

When classes are over and the heat of summer has settled in, Oakland University students deserve a break from the books. To help students cool off, there are several ice cream shops around campus that offer delicious summer treats and weekly specials.

Maggie Moo’s Ice Cream and Treatery, in the Village of Rochester Hills, hosts Premiere Fridays all summer long, where they feature a new ice cream creation every week. The creation could contain anything from Maggie Moo’s Very Yellow Marshmallow to their Red Velvet Cake ice cream, and can include unique mix-ins like teddy grahams, sour patch kids or cappuccino chips.

You can also try Maggie Moo’s Zoomers, which are fresh fruit smoothies and coffee drinks that are low fat and lactose free or take home boxes of Maggie O’s ice cream sandwiches, quarts and ice cream cupcakes. The treatery also serves a college fan favorite: Jones Soda.

This week’s Premiere Friday is Cookies and Kung Phu, made with cookie dough, chocolate sprinkles and fudge.

Maggie Moo’s is open weekdays until 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. Discounts are available for OU students.

Just across the street from the Village is Coldstone Creamery, on Adams Road and Walton Boulevard, where they not only have the famous cake batter ice cream, but cookie batter as well. Coldstone has recently added Ghiradelli chocolate chips and caramel squares to their mix-in assortment and are featuring them in the Chocolate Fantasy ice cream “signature creation” they are promoting all month long.

Students in the mood for a drinkable treat can try any of Coldstone’s exotic shakes. Cake N’ Shake is a blended mix of cake batter ice cream and yellow cake, while Cherry Cheesecake uses cheesecake ice cream and cherry pie filling. Coldstone’s menu is packed with signature cakes and NrGize smoothies that are made with ice instead of sorbet, and include an added energy supplement. The Rochester location is open Sunday to Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.

The Carvel Ice Cream store is located in the Country Creek Commons, on Silverbell and Adams.

“We serve real ice cream, all made on site. All our hard ice creams we make here, they are fresh everyday. We use more custard than other companies,” said Darcy Guidice, a sales associate at Carvel. “We make our cakes on site as well.”

Carvel uses custard in their products, and many of the ice creams already come with chunks of toppings in them. Crazy Cotton Candy and Cake Mix already have sprinkles in the batter, and strawberry flavored ice cream is topped with pieces of the fruit.

If there isn’t enough “bling” in the ice cream, customers can use a gigantic self serve sprinkle machine to help fulfill their ice cream dreams.

Carvel’s hours are Monday to Thursday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. On Friday and Saturday Carvel stays open until 11 p.m. while Wednesdays boasts buy one, get one free for classic sundaes.

For students looking for a healthier alternative, TCBY serves 96 percent fat-free frozen yogurt. The menu offers frozen yogurt treats like sorbet fizzes that combine frozen sorbet and 7-Up. Also, the store serves frozen yogurt that contains no added sugar.

For the summer, TCBY has Dreamsicle swirls that mix  frozen yogurt and sorbet. TCBY’s smoothie menu is fruit and frozen yogurt based and their Frappe Chillers are healthy iced coffee blends. Hours are 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. daily, and the closest location to OU is on Main Street in downtown Rochester.