Coffee Hero

Last summer while visiting my hometown of Columbus, I had some excellent coffee ice cream.  The ice cream shop was Jeni’s and they used coffee roasted from the local Stauf’s Coffee Roasters.  From Jeni’s Signature Flavors:

Black Coffee: Cream steeped with just-roasted coffee from Stauf’s, a local roaster. No water — which makes our coffee ice cream rich and dark, not icy and bitter. It tastes the way coffee smells.

I had completely forgotten about my Columbus coffee ice cream experience until last weekend.  Seattle has an equal to Jeni’s called Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream.  While in line I noticed they also teamed up with a local coffee roaster for their coffee ice cream too.  Molly offers Vivace Coffee, which uses coffee from Espresso Vivace.  It was yummy!

Photo coffee ice cream w/ espresso chips by dennisandluba

Does your town have a local artisan ice cream maker that has teamed up with a local coffee roaster to make an outstanding coffee ice cream?  Tell us about it in the comments.  It is summer time, which means it is time for coffee ice cream.

Sources:

Jeni’s Ice Cream – Columbus Ohio artisan ice cream maker.

Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream – Seattle artisan ice cream maker.

Coffee Ice Cream – Or you can make your own ice cream using home roasted coffee.

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