Homemade Ice Cream
We make all of our own ice cream right here on the farm. Our ice cream is made from a 15% butterfat mix (pasteurized milk, cream, and sugar mixture). 15% butterfat ice cream is very rich in taste. It has a smooth, creamy texture and blends well with many flavors.
We make our ice cream with machines called batch freezers, which make 5 or 10 gallons of ice cream per batch. Each batch takes about 12-15 minutes to make. We add the flavorings at different stages of the process depending on how we want the ingredients mixed in.
The ice cream comes out of the machine at about 23-25 degrees and is immediately put into a specially built walk-in freezer that has a high wind velocity and an average temperature of 30 degrees below zero. Freezing ice cream quickly is one secret of making excellent ice cream. If you allow the ice cream to freeze slowly, large ice crystals will form and a rough texture will result (this is why when you try to freeze homemade ice cream it sometimes doesn’t taste very good the next day).
After the ice cream freezes hard, it’s ready to move to the store freezers. These freezers hold the ice cream at about 10 degrees below zero. At this temperature, ice cream maintains a fresh, creamy taste. Check out our Special Homemade Flavor of the Week!
Learn about our flavors and their descriptions
See a list of our flavors and their ingredients
Our Ice Cream Production Schedule for This Year
Flavor of the Week 2013
Click here to download the .pdf version of the FOTW List
January | July |
|---|---|
| 7 - Black Walnut 14 - Cow Patty 21 - Cookies & Cream 28 - Butter Pecan | 1 - French Vanilla 8 - Black Raspberry 15 - Cake Batter 22 - Chocolate Fudge Brownie 29 - Vanilla |
| February | August |
| 4 - Cookie Dough 11 - French Vanilla 18 - Caramel Chocolate Toffee 25 - Sea Salt Caramel | 5 - Cotton Candy 12 - White Chocolate Breeze 19 - Caramel Chocolate Toffee 26 - Sea Salt Caramel |
| March | September |
| 4 - Chocolate Chunk Cherry Vanilla 11 - Mint Chocolate Chip 18 - Chocolate P-Nut Butter 25 - Chocolate Fudge Brownie | 2 - Cookies & Cream 9 - Wooly Wonka 16 - Cinnamon 23 - Chocolate P-Nut Butter 30 - Pumpkin |
| April | October |
| 1 - Lemon Custard 8 - Banana Cookie Crunch 15 - Lemon Coconut Cheesecake 22 - Peaches & Cream 29 - Peanut Butter Cup | 7 - Peanut Butter Cup 14 - Rocky Road 21 - Mint Chocolate Chip 28 - Banana Cookie Crunch |
| May | November |
| 6 - Strawberry 13 - Espresso Chocolate Crunch 20 - Cookie Dough 27 - Chocolate | 4 - Pumpkin 11 - Black Raspberry 18 - Peppermint Stick 25 - Vanilla |
| June | December |
| 3 - Peaches & Cream 10 - Caramel Cookie Dough 17 - Lemon Custard 24 - Strawberry | 2 - Black Walnut 9 - Snowflake 16 - Egg Nog 23 - Peppermint Stick 30 - Chocolate |
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