Try it Tuesday: Mike makes his own flavor of ice cream at Black + White Modern Creamery
San Antonio – Frank Collazo, Owner of Black + White Modern Creamery, takes Mike through the process of making ice cream at his creamery, and specifically their honey and cornbread ice cream, which is their most popular flavor. Black + White Modern Creamery makes Philly style ice cream, which does not use eggs as an ingredient and makes for a much lighter and fluffier product. Mike’s flavor, “Mike’s Cookie Medley,” includes crumbled up Oreos, Nutter Butters and Nilla Wafers. With warmer weather around the corner visit Black + White Modern Creamery’s Facebook page to learn about flavor options and how you can get your hands on some of their delicious ice cream.
Chocollazzo s’mores to-go
San Antonio – Frank Collazo, Co-Owner of Chocollazo, shows off their extremely easy, but incredibly delicious, s’mores to go. Chocollazzo also has many other delicious treats that will be able to please even the pickiest sweet tooth. They also opened a brand new Ice Cream shop, Black + White Modern Creamery, right next door, that has some of the most fantastic ice cream flavors you have laid eyes on. Frank stressed the importance of supporting local businesses here in San Antonio in order help the community as a whole in these hard times. So head over to Chocollazzo’s website to place a curbside order or just see what options they have all while supporting a local business.
Dwanta Claus is comin’ to town! Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson launches boozy holiday ice cream
Johnson teamed up with Salt & Straw, a small-batch ice cream company based in Oregon, and Teremana Small Batch Tequila to launch boozy ice cream just in time for Christmas. You can enjoy these three boozy flavors: The Rock’n Around the Christmas Tree, I Saw Mommy Kissing Dwanta Claus, and Dwanta’s Teremana Spiked Egg Nog. The ice cream will be available as scoops and pints across all Salt & Straw scoop shops along the West Coast, as well as for purchase online. The “Naughty, Nice & Spiked” holiday pack will be exclusively available online. To get your own pint or pint pack, click here.
2 boozy ice cream recipes from “Ice Cream Scientists”
SAN ANTONIO – “Ice Cream Scientists,” Justin Laabs and Anna Ingoglia, share recipes and explain how you can support America’s farmers by enjoying delicious dairy products. Impress your friends on your next “Zoom Happy Hour” with ice cream cocktail recipes like boozy milkshakes that can, also, be turned into mocktail recipes for kids. In the video, the scientists explain how flavors are developed, and how America’s farmers can be supported by buying dairy products during September. By thanking a farmer you can enter to win free ice cream for a year. Not that you need a reason to treat yourself in 2020, but you can do some good this month while enjoying ice cream.
Blue Bell ordered to pay $17.25M in criminal penalties for distributing listeria-contaminated products in 2015
Blue Bell Creameries L.P. was ordered by a federal court to pay $17.25 million in criminal penalties for sending out contaminated products linked to a 2015 listeria outbreak, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. The DOJ said Blue Bell pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of distributing adulterated ice cream products in May 2020. The FDA, CDC and Blue Bell issued public recalls on March 13, 2015. A second recall was announced 10 days later after tests confirmed listeria contamination at a Blue Bell facility in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Blue Bell temporarily closed down all of its facilities in late April 2015 to clean and update equipment.
Misinformation on the virus is proving highly contagious
Steve, right, and Chris Brophy, husband and wife owners of Brickley's Ice Cream, look out from the store they closed after teenage workers were harassed by customers who refused to wear a mask or socially distance, in Wakefield, R.I., Wednesday, July 29, 2020. "Some of them don't believe it's real (COVID-19) and some don't think it's a big deal, I do," Steve Brophy said, adding that he would rather close than put young workers and customers at risk of harassment, and the virus. "It's like it's OK to be a jerk in this environment." (AP Photo/David Goldman)
If youre gonna eat ice cream, why not make it boozy
SAN ANTONIO Boozys Creamery & Craft is a locally owned ice cream shop, or is it a bar? Its rocky road ice cream infused with 2 types of bourbon with Oreo crumbles and gummy worms on top. They have the ice cream and alcohol pairs to match anyones tastes. If youre gonna eat ice cream, why not make it boozy. Want to make your own DIY diary-free ice cream?
Blue Bell brings back Milk & Cookies flavor for National Ice Cream Month
SAN ANTONIO This summer is like no other in Texas, but Blue Bell is making things a little sweeter by bringing back a beloved, yet rare, flavor. Blue Bell will return the Milk & Cookies Ice Cream flavor to stores in July in honor of National Ice Cream Month. The flavor is a blend of ice cream and chocolate chip cookies, and has not been sold in several years, company officials said. The flavor has not been available in stores for several years, Jimmy Lawhorn, Blue Bells vice president of sales and marketing, said in a news release. Returning flavors are as exciting as a new flavor because so many of our fans contact us every day with requests asking to bring back their favorite.Every National Ice Cream Month, Blue Bell either takes one flavor out of retirement or creates a new flavor, officials said.