Monday, August 3, 2009
Foods / Recipe File Mike's Churns up Custom Ice Cream
Posted by Carrington Fox on Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:44 AM
Scene intern Caroline Hallemann contributed this post.
Do you yearn for eggnog ice cream long after yuletide? Reminisce about Ben & Jerry's long-gone Tennessee Mud? Want to celebrate the harvest with ice cream loaded with fruit from your own orchard?
Mike Duguay of Mike's Ice Cream (the creamery that supplies the decadent frozen wares at Sip Cafe in East Nashville and Mike's Ice Cream Fountain downtown) can make these and other dairy dreams come true with his customizable ice cream catering. The minimum order is five gallons, which can be scooped into pint and quart containers if requested. Prices range from $100 to $300 for the minimum, depending on ingredients and the time required to satisfy your ice cream whim.
It's every kid's fantasy job to invent ice cream flavors--Bites readers, indulge your inner child. What flavor would you have Mike churn up?
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Banana, peanut butter, caramel and marshmallow ice cream. Call it Flufferbanoffeenutter.
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dark chocolate ice cream with pretzels, toffee and fudge. oh and caramel. maybe salted caramel.
at those prices, it should be called Million Dollar Crunch. yipes. maybe i'll hone my recipe and wait for the annual Haagen-Dazs contest.
I had Mike's cake batter ice cream at Sip Cafe a few weeks back. It was by far the best take on the idea I've tasted yet.
$100 to $300 for two gallons of ice cream? Even as a one-off custom order for a high-end, hand-made product, that's mighty steep. I guess I don't fault the producers for charging that much if they can get it, but I'd have to have an obscene amount of disposable income to make that seem like a good idea.
