This Halloween, I’ll be heading to the Ample Hills Creamery in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. I was there a couple weeks ago and they had a Vertigo-flavored ice cream. So obviously it’s like the coolest place ever.
For the record, Vertigo-flavored ice cream is a honey vanilla base with a chili chocolate swirl and sourdough french toast pieces. Doesn’t that just make you want to creepily stalk Kim Novak?
You’re making me dizzy…
This special Hitchcock inspired flavor was created for last summer’s outdoor film series in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The good people at Ample Hills created a new flavor for every movie. Here are some of their other creations:
Rocky’s Road for Rocky
Dark chocolate ice cream with brownies, cookie dough, miniature marshmallows, and chocolate-covered potato chips. You know, all the healthy things a boxer needs before getting into the ring.
Warning: This ice cream catches the eye of tigers.
Bruce Lychee for Enter the Dragon
Lychee ice cream with fudge ripples. A disclaimer: Eating fudge ripples will not lead to rippling muscles. In fact, the opposite will probably happen.
Hi-yah!
Augustus Gloop for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Milk chocolate ice cream with gloops of fudge chunks, brownie bites, and dark chocolate flakes. Ample Hills offers a 100% guarantee that this flavor is free of any lingering bits of small German boy. No need to worry about turning into a cannibal.
Don’t even think about getting near my ice cream.
Why so much movie and ice cream crossover love? Ample Hills founder Brian Smith is a former screenwriter. His IMDb page boasts a variety of credits: From a propmaker on For Colored Girls to a special effects technician on Flight.
Earlier this year, he wrote Beneath, an indie thriller about a bunch of teenagers trapped on a boat surrounded by a flesh-eating monster. Beneath also got its own flavor: Blue beer ice cream with “bloody” red honeycomb pieces and crunchy Ritz crackers, pretzels, and potato chips. Crunchy like a nubile teenager being chomped on by something evil in the water.
Don’t go in the water!
What’s that, you say? You’re not in New York and you think it’s unfair to be tantalized with pictures of amazing ice cream that you’d have to get on an airplane to consume? That’s fair, but there’s no reason you can’t get inspired by Ample Hills and make your own creations at home.
Just play like Cold Stone and start mixing weird stuff in. Here are a few ideas:
Muriel’s Wedding Cake
Birthday cake flavored ice cream with rainbow sprinkles to mimic the poster, Dunkaroo cookies as a nod to the Australian setting, and a bit of yellow food coloring to turn everything gold like the ABBA greatest hits album.
At Waterloo Napoleon did surrender…to flavor!
The Girl with the Dragonfruit Ice Cream
French vanilla ice cream with bits of dragonfruit (for obvious reasons) and Swedish Fish as a nod to the setting. Add in some blue M&Ms, which will contrast with the yellow ice cream for a play on the colors of the Swedish flag.
Ice cream takes the edge off the tattoo needle.
The Ten Commandments of ice cream
Just use ten items you’ve got sitting around the pantry. You can type up a list to be served with dessert. “Thou shalt include raisins.” “Thou shalt cover thy coffee beans in chocolate.” And so on.
Thou shalt not let the ice cream melt by leaving it on the counter for too long.
OK so maybe there’s a reason Brian Smith makes ice cream and I only write about it.
The good thing about custom ice cream is that it’s still ice cream. It’ll taste delicious whether it’s based on Chinatown or Gigli. So get mixing!
Ample Hills Creamery is located at 623 Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. There’s no word yet on what they’ve got planned for Halloween, but it’s sure to be awesome.