The Big Muddy Ice Cream Blog

The best part about writing this blog is eating lots of tasty ice cream! The second best part is hearing about when our Dearest Readers enjoyed a post, especially if those Dearest Readers are ice cream makers! After eating, loving, and reviewing the Cinnamon & Bits flavor from Batch Ice Cream, the Batch Instragram account comment on my post saying how much they enjoyed the review! Seeing their comment made me feel warm and fuzzy inside, so while back in Boston, I figured I'd give another one of their flavors a try! This time I picked up Mocha Chip, because mocha and coffee ice creams are some of Brett's favorites. This flavor is described as A trifecta of deliciousness - we blend together coffee from the mountains of Columbia, organic cocoa from the Dominican Republic, and organic dark Belgian chocolate chips to create this new old-school classic. The base flavor of this ice cream featured a milky, creamy, chocolatey flavor. The coffee flavor was light, ...

I would be the first to tell you Iowa has great ice cream offerings. On the ice cream front, at first I was terrified of moving to a smaller city, and it has turned out to be fabulous. I love Heyn's, I love Yotopia, Thelma's Treats is fabulous, and I love finding David's Famous everywhere I look. However, I'm going to be honest, there aren't small, hip, local ice cream brands in every grocery store. Hanging out it Boston for a week, I discovered Boston has a bunch of such offerings. One evening, Brett and I bought some ice cream at the grocery store near his apartment. The pint design of Batch caught my eye, and this flavor sounded unique and tasty. So first about bit about this company. Batch was started in May 2010 by Susie Parish and Veronica Janssens. They try to source as many ingredients as possible locally or from fair trade sources and use "only real ingredients and no weird stuff" according to the website. What are their ice cream making cre...