Saint Benoît Creamery, Petaluma, Calif., uses organic Jersey cows milk to produce its new whole milk, which joins the company’s popular hand-crafted yogurt line.
Consumers’ growing interest in chef-inspired home cooking is driving the development of flavorful butters, as such cooking aids and condiments provide a culinary touch to even the simplest recipes.
Bacetti is a new line of bite-sized premium ice cream novelties developed by a brother and sister team who founded the same-named San Francisco-based company about a year ago.
Expect to see some new feature flavors—in both the natural and churned lines—this year from Velvet Ice Cream Co., Utica, Ohio. And while president Luconda Dager is hush-hush about other 2012 plans, she says what won’t change is the company’s continued focus on quality and value.
Mikawaya is a Vernon, Calif.-based candy maker and ice cream processor that is on the move with new products and formats backed by social media marketing. The company plans to expand its ice cream offerings with its first pint line — Mikawaya Exottics — to be released as early as this April.
Philip R’s Frozen Desserts made headlines in 2010 with its award-winning Lollibons (picture an ice cream lollipop or a cake pop on a stick). The Swiss vanilla almond Lollibon was selected as a silver finalist for Outstanding Perishable Foodservice Product in the 2010 sofi Awards from the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade. In 2011, the novelty received a top award from the World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product contest in the creative and innovative class.