The Salty Pimp: Big Gay Ice Cream

Being in New York in a hot, hot August does have it's advantages: an ice-cream a day has become an acceptable, perhaps even an encouraged, mode-de-vie. With as many awesome ice-cream places as there are here to try, and to try again, we almost don't want this heatwave to end.

The Big Gay Ice Cream brand started out as a New York food truck in 2009 with the aim of re-creating the old school soft-serve cone. And it's done the best job at expanding it's soft serve empire since then.

The Salty Pimp from Big Gay Ice Cream was high up on our list of 'ice-creams-we-must-eat-ASAP'. Vanilla soft serve interwoven with dulce de lece, sprinkled with sea salt and dipped in a layer of chocolate couldn't be resisted for long. And with good reason: it was sweet and salty, light and rich, soft and with the crispest chocolate exterior. You can get even more of an idea of what it's like to eat the Salty Pimp by watching it be made right here.

We're hoping this heatwave will last a little longer so we've got an excuse to eat many more soft-serve treats from the Big Gay Ice Cream menu.

Big Gay Ice Cream, 125 East 7th Street, New York, NY 10009

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Cereal Milk Soft Serve, Milk Bar

When B & I finally agreed that we were going to move to NYC, one of the first things I did was order myself a copy of Christina Tosi's Momofuku Milk Bar cookbook. I then spent many, many hours on the sofa reading, re-reading, and re-re-reading the recipes for cereal milk ice-cream, for the rainbow sprinkle filled birthday cake, for the compost cookies...

It therefore came as no surprise to those who have to live with me that two days in to our New York adventure, I had already made it to Milk Bar to finally taste the wondrous cereal milk soft serve that I'd read so, so much about.

The people working in here must have thought I was completely crazy as I had the widest, most excited smile across my face when they handed us over our order, cereal milk with crunch (for B), and cereal milk with sprinkles (for me). Photographs had to be taken quickly as I couldn't stand one more second of waiting to try this ice-cream. And, thankfully, this was with good reason: life in NYC can never be sad when Milk Bar is always only a few minutes away.

Milk Bar Williamsburg, 382 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, 11211 (check here for other locations).

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