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Meyer Lemon Custard heightened with fresh lemon juice and terpeneless Lemon Oil gives this PLK Fan Fave its distinctive citrus aroma and tart flavor that is reminiscent of the Southern Lemon Pound Cake.
Ethiopia is thought to be the place where the Arabica coffee plant was first cultivated. Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffee is naturally delicate and floral with tea-like characteristics. We leaned into the ingredient and created delightfully exotic coffee ice cream inflused with saffron and hints of jasmine.
Kolo is an Ethiopian snack consisting of well-roasted and dehulled barley grains, peanuts, sunflower seeds and Ethiopian spice blend. We created a Kolo Bark consisting of the Kolo and a blend of dark chocolates to create a mouth-watering, crunchy, peanut butter/chocolate confection, and tossed that into our Peanut Butter infused Sweet Cream.
Our award-winning flavor is an homage to Stagecoach Mary, the first African American female mail carrier who relied upon her rifle and shot gun to get the job done. She was truly special and so is this flavor: Our Caramel Stracciatella is layered with Bittersweet Dark Chocolate, our house made Ethiopian Pralines and finished with our Texas Whiskey Caramel Swirl.
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Zobo drink is the Nigerian predecessor to Caribbean sorrel and Latin American Agua Jamaíca, which is a simple tea brewed from dried zobo aka hibiscus flowers, spices and fruits. Hibiscus flowers are indigenous to West Africa and have spread around the world via the African diaspora. Our sorbetto version of Zobo combines brewed Hibiscus petals, pineapple, ginger, orange juice, cloves and sweetened black cherries. It is both refreshing and packed with antioxidants.
Sweet Cream ice cream slowly steeped with our own house made Kenyan Chai Spice and freckled with Nyangbo Grand Cru single origin cocoa sourced from the Nyangbo region of Ghana is our homage to the soothing, aromatic beverage steeped in history and cultural significance.
Ode to our inspiration, Edmond Albius, who was an important figure in the cultivation of the vanilla bean, our rich, creamy and sweet, our vanilla custard is slow-cooked custard blended steeped with vanilla beans harvested from Reunion Island, or Ilse Bourbon, Edmond's birthplace.
Sallie Shadd, a freed slave who in the 1870’s achieved rock star status with her concoction of frozen cream, sugar, and strawberries. Dolly Madison was reportedly so impressed with Shadd’s strawberry ice cream that she served it at President James Madison’s second Inauguration Ball in 1813. Our strawberry custard is paired with poundcake, sweet strawberry compote and strawberry balsamic caramel sauce.
History tells us that African Americans used what they had, what they had access to, to create the ice cream indulgence known as Butter Pecan when Vanilla ice cream was off limits to them. Ours features roasted pecans and our house-made Butter Pecan Cookies that are folded into our Brown Butter base (which we think could be eaten all by itself).
Sweet Potato Pie is a traditional delicacy with a rich history that travels from the African fields, and forests of Peru to kitchens of the antebellum era. We swirled our sweet potato custard, a recipe which has been in our family for generations, into our classic egg custard. It's rich and decadent pie and ice cream all in one.
Warmed with brown butter, cloves and nutmeg and infused with Caribbean Dark Rum, our Butter Rum ice cream is a celebration of how rum became rum in the first place, and the genius of the enslaved who developed the rum making process of fermenting and distilling molasses. THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS ALCOHOL. THE ALCOHOL BY VOLUME (ABV) IS 5% OR LESS.
Our classic Sweet Cream ice cream warmed with brown sugar, cinnamon, orange bitters and spiked with Uncle Nearest 1856 Premium Aged Wiskey, which honors the world’s first-known African American master distiller, Nearest Green. This ice cream is the perfect holiday pairing with nut and custard pies, cakes and bread puddings. THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS ALCOHOL. THE ALCOHOL BY VOLUME (ABV) IS 5% OR LESS.