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Wine for dessert? What will they think of next? Actually, wine-flavored ice cream is nothing new. What is new is Mercer’s Wine Ice Cream which clocks in at 5%-ABV. For those scoring at home — that is just enough to actually get you a buzz.
Mercer’s Wine Ice Cream is available in Cherry Merlot, Chocolate Cabernet, Peach White Zinfandel, Port, Red Raspberry, Chardonnay, or Riesling. Please enjoy your dessert responsibly.
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Whether on the couch, or in bed, the Ice Cream Sandwich Pillow will help provide the sweetest snuggling available. Made of 100% polyester, the pillow should go well with all of your other food-related decor. Just don’t squeeze too hard, or all of the ice cream will slide out. Not recommended for sleep eaters.
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That’s no moon. Nor is it a mere scoop of ice cream. It’s part of a series of ice cream cakes by designers Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien for Häagen-Dazs.
Inspired by Georges Méliès’ 1902 silent film Le Voyage dans la Lune, and Armenian surrealist Léon Tutundjian’s relief work of 1929 — the perfectly orbed ice cream is given craters and filled with layers of cake and other goodies.
UPDATE: A limited number of the Häagen-Dazs Ice Moon Cakes will be available in the UK starting October 24th. Details can be found at www.facebook.com/haagendazs.
Brazilian creative Renata El Dib designed a series of advertising posters for ice cream company Kibon. The three go-to flavors — vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry — are represented in drool-inducing detail. Add to that the clever use of two-sided printing, and the poster forms its own cone when the corner is curled.
[via designboom]
Ice cream planets and a sorbet sun accompany a recent essay by food writer Alan Richman in GQ Magazine. In what is surely one of the most educated and heartfelt essays on the subject of ice cream — Richman let’s us in on the best ice cream in the United States, knocks Ben & Jerry’s, and tells us why ice cream helps tell the difference between boys and girls. And did we mention that they made ice cream look like planets?
Photo by Levi Brown, styled by Victoria Granof. Check out the full article here.