Ice cream, light, soft serve, chocolate

Fun Facts

1. The first main type is what we in the ice cream trade call ‘soft’ but which is known to millions of happy customers as maybe ‘Mr Whippy’ or ‘Mr Softee’ and is often served as a ‘99’ in a crisp cone complete with a small stick of rich, flaky chocolate.
2. The second main type is what we in the trade call ‘hard’ but which is known by millions of happy customers as scooped being served as it is by being scooped out of a tub or container and piled on to a crispy cone.
3. Scoop ice cream is made in a slightly different way to soft which enables the maker to offer a mouth watering range of flavours and different textures by adding what we in the trade call ‘inclusions’ which are the bits of fruit, chocolate, cookie etc that are blended in to the ice cream when it is made for you to enjoy when you eat it.
4. Quite simply, artisan ice cream is ice cream made by an artisan which the dictionary definition of artisan being a ‘skilled craftsperson’. Delving a bit deeper in to the dictionary tells us that a crafts-person is some one who makes things skilfully by hand.