Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream

"Cow to cone" ice cream from America's heartland

Family owned and operated, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream’s‘ bold seasonal and signature flavors are a neo-cottage industry success story. The American-style, artisinally-blended ice cream truly lives up to the name. Made from a combination of homegrown ingredients and whole cream from the freely grazing cows at nearby Snowville Creamery, every batch is “pasture to table, cow to cone” fresh. While picking favorites among flavors like …

Nudo Cioccolatini

Olive oil chocolates made by a local Italian community (nuns too)

With chocolatiers known simply as “Ivan and Michele” and packaged by local nuns, Nudo‘s new olive oil Cioccolatini are a community project from top to bottom. Based in Italy’s Le Marche region, Nudo (a family-run operation itself) tapped Ivan and Michele to take their astounding olive oil in a sweet direction—but not without a few road bumps along the way. Because the word nudo translates …

Chocolate Mountains

Blow your top with chocolates designed to mimic volcanoes

If you’re looking for an unusual chocolate experience look no further than Icelandic product designer Brynhildur Pálsdóttir’s Chocolate Mountains. Brynhildur created the molds and worked with Iceland’s premier chocolatier Hafliði Ragnarsson to develop and produce the complex confections. Each of the four multi-layered mountains is an edible model of a real geological structure, which Pálsdóttir details in adorably informative graphics. The Jökull chocolate represents Iceland’s …