There are really only two kinds of people (lunatics, geniuses) who would dare open an ice cream shop in the dead of winter.

But East Village Ice Cream, a bite-size, creamsicle-colored store just opened by a Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory alum, is a case of mad brilliance.

Everything in the tiny gem of a shop is handcrafted in carefully curated, ever-changing flavors: mango made from fresh fruit and brown sugar; pistachio with bits of toasted, hand-mashed nuts; and sweet, rich coffee that revives better than any cup of joe. Calculate the beneficial effects of vanilla with caramel or strawberry with rainbow sprinkles on your seasonal affective disorder.

Before you know it, you’ll be scarfing down amazing Scharffen Berger chocolate-chocolate chunk in zero-degree weather, wondering whether you are a lunatic or a genius.

Or a little of both.

East Village Ice Cream, 218 Avenue B, between 13th and 14th Streets (212-673-6030).