Pizza ice cream is a hit at this Dutch ice cream parlour
At the Gorcum ice cream parlour Venezia di Agnoli, they enjoy experimenting from time to time. The ice cream makers previously came up with beer ice cream and cola ice cream, and now they are introducing their homemade pizza ice cream. And what turns out? It is an outright hit.
Pizza ice cream? Haven’t we heard that before? Indeed, this German ice cream parlour beat the people of Gorcum to it. But with little success—the reactions were harsh. That is quite different for the Agnoli ice cream family. “Eighty per cent of the customers are positive,” brothers Alessio and Lorenzo tell AD.nl.
Three flavours
Alessio, Lorenzo and their father Mauro came up with three different flavours: pizza Margherita, pizza Hawaii and pizza Hot & spicy. How do they make them? According to the brothers, the process is similar to making a smoothie. You throw all the ingredients—tomato, mozzarella and herbs—into their special ice cream mix, put it in the ice cream machine and start tasting. It took a while before they got the proportions right. “The first test was extremely rich: far too much mozzarella.” So they mixed, adjusted and tasted again. And again, until the men were satisfied with all three.
“You can really taste the Margherita,” customers can be heard saying in a video on Facebook. In principle, the ice cream will only be available until the end of this week, but if it proves to be a success, the ice cream makers are considering making another batch. Find a whole scoop a bit too much? Don’t worry. At the ice cream parlour, everyone gets a little spoon to try it.
Sushi ice cream
What’s next? “Sushi ice cream,” if it were up to Alessio. “We usually experiment with new flavours in autumn, when things are quieter in the shop. So who knows what might be added again in spring.”
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