amaretto ice cream

chocolate chili cinnamon sorbet

pomegranate raspberry sorbet

4 great heart healthy flavors to spice up your love life !  Sweet collective reopens Wed. Feb 6th for scoops and pints.  Check out our other retail locations that offer a variety of flavors in the links and locations section on the right.

Pecan Caramel

Candy Cane Marshmallow

Sour Cream Cinnamon

Madagascar Vanilla Bean

Dark Chocolate

Orange Cardamom Sherbet

Cream Cheese with Gingerbread

Hazelnut Brown Butter Orange Sage

Buffalo Trace Bourbon with or without Milk Chocolate

Chocolate Coffee

Grapefruit Campari

Blueberry Cider Sorbet

Cranberry Orange Sage

Cherry Ginger Soda Sorbet

Pomegranate Raspberry Black Tea

Buffalo Trace Bourbon Ice Cream, Sweet Potato Ice Cream on top of a Mixed Nut Cake .

Pick it up at Sweet Collective 5333 N. Lincoln Ave Chicago, IL

We do custom ice cream cakes – choose your flavors and we make it. Give us an email:  ruthandphils@gmail.com

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Sorbets

Chocolate Tarragon

Blueberry Banana Rosemary

Pomegranate Raspberry Black Tea  ( available at Goddess Grocer Bucktown and soon Downtown Farmstand)

Pear Apple Cider Champagne Sorbet ( available at Z & H and Goddess and Grocer Gold Coast)

Grapefruit Balsamic Vinegar

Spiced Cider Apple (available at Marion Street)

Ice Cream

Pecan Caramel ( available at Goddess and Grocer Bucktown)

Caramel Apple

Pumpkin Spice

Sweet Potato Pie

Sour Cream Cinnamon ( The very best Ice Cream with Apples)

Madagascar Vanilla Bean

Chocolate Orange Thyme

Cream Cheese w/ Gingerbread (Yes, we make the Gingerbread ourselves)

Hazelnut Brown Butter Orange Sage (coming next week to Goddess and Grocer Bucktown)

Banana Ice Cream w/ Chocolate Covered Pecans  (This is the one, I can almost eat a whole pint in one sitting)

Buffalo Trace Bourbon w/ Milk Chocolate

White Chocolate w/ Lemon, Ginger, and Black Sesame

Ice Creams

Sorbets

ICE CREAMS:

SORBETS:

Plus, Sorbet Sandwiches are on sale!      Vanilla Ginger Cookie + Citrus Zen Sorbet

It all started two years ago, when I decided to follow a recipe (it is a rarity) of Grammercy Tavern’s Pastry Chef, Claudia Flemming. In her book, The Last Course, I made her guinness stout cake. Honestly, I didn’t taste Guinness. I tasted a moist, delicious spice cake. Not what I was going for though. Guinness is one of my favorite beers and I wanted to taste it in this cake.

My immediate thought.. I could get a stronger Guinness flavor by making ice cream ! Umm Yeah !.! I was working on a St. Patricks plated dessert.

Searching recipes on the internet and ones I had, I combined a few and learned.

1. The less molasses the better 2. No on the cassis (When I was visiting my welsh friend, Cath in England for St. Patrick’s Day I might add, she had Guinness with a splash of cassis liquer. I tried it. Not bad. The sweet berry syrup cut down the bitterness and made easier for someone to drink).

Cath in front of St. James Gate Brewery.

3. Easy on the Cloves. 4. Ask others opinions, if they taste ginger. Ginger tends to overpower the other spices and flavors. Ginger is also, one of the rare flavors that has to be incredible pronounced for me to taste. To achieve the subtly needed I need to consult with my co-workers.

I was not happy with my first batch. It was tasting more and more like Lucky Charms Cereal. To save the batch I added a bottle and a half of beer and spun it. It had potential. Most said they could taste Guinness. I was just glad it wasn’t Lucky Charms Cereal Ice Cream anymore.

Two Years Later… I am thrilled with it. Strong on Guinness Beer with a hint of spice and coffee, a creamy and cool texture, plus, I love the gingerbread stout cake with it! This is how cake is suppose to accompany ice cream. Ice cream allows one to highlight the true flavor of the original ingredient. The creamy, refreshing alcoholic zing, plus the moist spice cake, results in a delightful comfort of true happiness.

Close up of the Guinness Ice Cream with gingerbread stout cake

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