So many fun things have taken place over the last week or so. We have been developing our frozen dessert techniques, our gelato cart has arrived, and we’re getting our gelato out into the community — and they’re loving it.
Amazing progress on the dessert front:
It tastes as amazing as it looks. Sweet cream inside, crunchy chocolate outside. And, of course, they’re totally customizable — we can coat them in anything: cookie crumbs, graham crackers, sprinkles, white chocolate… and we can even add a layer on the inside: cookies or crushed candy… Oh. my. yums. (And pretty fun to make, too, let’s be honest!)
Yes! It’s tartufo! This one’s creamy strawberry gelato with a fudgy center, coated in crispy chocolate. Even more options come along with this beauty: any flavor gelato or sorbetto (or semifreddo - gelato mixed with whipped cream), with any sort of filling (or not): chocolate or fruit syrups, a cherry, crumbled candy even… and any sort of coating outside: cocoa powder, coconut shavings, crushed cookies… man, anything!
We’re trying to invent some classy favors for people to hand out at events/weddings. We love these little boxes, and filled this one with a 1.5″x1.5″ chocolate-covered gelato cube (with chocolate gelato inside). I’m going to make some royal icing decorations (like flowers, dots, etc.) to add to things like this to make them beautiful… This is so much fun!
We tracked down some other decent boxes to pack our desserts in — this is a 7″ long box housing two tartufi. We’ll probably offer boxes like this for custom orders. Pick your gelato, your center, & your coating… that sort of thing.
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The new shop!
We are SO EXCITED about our beautiful new cart! We’ll be able to use it as a display case in the shop, and then load it up in our van and take it to events around town. We’ve already got several events lined up!!
It’s pretty inside, too. And it seems to work really nicely. It’s got a really wide range of temperatures it can run at. We’re still fiddling with the settings to maintain perfect gelato environments.
While Jess & Gramma were at an event this morning, I rearranged the shop so that the counter is out along the wall now, and the cart has a prominent position out front!
The best news of all, though, is that we’ve delivered three orders to Babbo in college park — they are getting excellent feedback from their customers, and seem to be really happy with it. I was told that an Italian restaurateur (did you know that word doesn’t have an “n” in it?) tasted our gelato and believed it was the “most authentic gelato around here”. What better compliment could we ever possibly receive? I’m sure I was glowing with pride.
That’s all for now. More soon!
