Ice Cream in...55 seconds?!

My father-in-law sent me this video.

I don't have too much to say except for "Please bring this to Massachusetts!"

iCream Cafe sounds amazing. And even though liquid nitrogen ice cream isn't new, Cora Shaw is my hero for turning this super cool product into something so accessible to the general public! (I love that this was her business school project!)

And the pudding sounds amazing too. Wow.

Chicago's Luxury Ice Cream Festival - July 30/31

Okay so we're cutting it close on this event but if you happen to be in the Chicago area this weekend you must check this out. It's on Friday and Saturday July 30 & 31st from 7-10pm. We at Scoopalicious rave about our own hometown all you can eat festival, Scooper Bowl, but it looks like Chicago is showing us some serious competition with their Luxury Ice Cream Festival. Now the two festivals definitely have a different take...main stream brands on a city plaza with lots of kids, music and fun and the other is artisan flavors in a chic museum, The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, under the stars with beer and wine. Each I love for different reasons. Who doesn't love watching kids eat as many scoops as they want and being able to do the same with fun music and tourists buzzing all around. But I do have to say a night out in a cool museum with cocktails and micro-creamery ice cream sounds pretty darn good too. 

Tickets are $25 for 25 tasting stations of various ice cream, gelato, chocolatiers, pastry chefs, and more. For a night out that's not too shabby especially when there was also a grilling section on a rooftop terrace of a Nature Museum with beer and wine tastings too!


I am not all familiar with these chefs but you might be if you are from that area....go check out Gino Bahena, Michelle Garcia, Christine McCabe's cool creations, plus artisan ice cream from Black Dog Gelato, Nice Cream, Vosges haut Chocolate, Homer's, Oberweis, Sassy Cow Creamery and many more! 


We'd love to hear more about this. If you happen to end up here this Friday or Saturday please drop us a line and share your experience.


[Scoopalicious is celebrating National Ice Cream month with a Post-A-Day throughout the month of July!]

Chi-Town's "Original Rainbow Cone"

God love the Food Network...what would I watch without it. Tonight I discoverd a Chicago favorite and classic ice cream treat that sounds oh so yummy. It's the "original Rainbow Cone" and it was highlighted on a recent episode of Unwrapped. I love to hear about must haves in different cities and this is one that is quite simple but unique. And one I must try the next time I make it to Chicago (hubby goes there often, may have to piggy back just for this!).

So what is this "Rainbow Cone"? Back in 1926, on Chicago's South Side, this special treat was created for a mere 12.5 cents and 82 years later its still kickin, with lines out the door, but at a whopping $3.50. Simply its a plain cone stacked with first chocolate ice cream, then strawberry, Palmer House (french vanilla with cherries and walnuts), pistachio, and orange sherbet. And yes in that exact order every time making a rainbow of sweet colors. The sherbet is your first lick to cleanse the palette (pretty fancy!) and the chocolate is on the bottom to not intefere with the nuts and fruit flavors. Wow, a true science to this one.

Oh and they also are very particular about how its placed on the cone. They don't scoop, they slice so it really creates an arch of flavors (thus the rainbow) not scoops on top of eachother. It's pretty cool. Wish I could find a picture.

According to one Yelp visitor, "this is a Taste of Chicago staple, this place is like heaven for the indecisive, because an Original Rainbow Cone has five flavors of super sweet and creamily old timey ice cream all piled up together on the same cone..."

Time to get to the Windy City!