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  • Connoisseur Debuts Italian-inspired Gelato Line With Pistachio And Almond Biscotti Flavours

    Connoisseur Debuts Italian-inspired Gelato Line With Pistachio And Almond Biscotti Flavours

    Connoisseur, a well-known ice cream manufacturer, has debuted its new line of Italian-influenced gelato. The range currently includes two flavours: Pistachio and Almond Biscotti, offered in different formats.

    Pistachio and Almond Biscotti Flavours

    The Pistachio gelato is available in a one-litre tub. In contrast, the Almond Biscotti gelato, fashioned into stick form, is retailed in packs of four. Both these flavours can be found in a variety of retailers, including Coles and Woolworths, and are priced from $12.

    Inspiration Behind the Flavours

    Vanessa Mason, brand manager of Connoisseur, explained that the new offerings were designed with a bold, innovative approach and an eye towards the latest in flavour trends. The Pistachio and Almond Biscotti creations are a nod to the concept of La Dolce Vita, appreciating life’s simple pleasures and the joy in taking things slowly.

    The Pistachio flavour’s release was inspired by the recent surge in popularity of pistachio-themed content on social media. The Almond Biscotti gelato stick, on the other hand, was influenced by the traditional Italian dessert.

    Past Creations

    These new introductions come on the heels of Connoisseur’s successful launch of Honeycomb and Salted Caramel ice cream last year.

    Questions & Answers

    What are the new gelato flavours introduced by Connoisseur?
    Connoisseur has introduced Pistachio and Almond Biscotti gelato flavours.

    What was the inspiration for the Pistachio and Almond Biscotti flavours?
    The Pistachio flavour was inspired by a recent viral trend on social media, while the Almond Biscotti flavour takes its cue from a traditional Italian dessert.

    What were Connoisseur’s previous ice cream releases?
    Last year, Connoisseur successfully launched a Honeycomb and Salted Caramel ice cream.

  • Lotus Biscoff ice cream bars return to Woolworths

    Lotus Biscoff ice cream bars return to Woolworths

    Lotus Bakeries has brought back its Biscoff ice cream bars in the country following demand from fans to restock the frozen treat.

    The Biscoff ice cream bars are available in milk chocolate and white chocolate.

    Each stick features a crisp outer layer of Belgian milk chocolate and Biscoff biscuits, a layer of Biscoff spread on top of the dairy vanilla ice cream, and more Biscoff pieces inside.

    Biscoff biscuits – also known as Lotus biscuits – are made with a blend of cinnamon and other spices, giving them a slightly sweet and spicy flavour. The texture is crispy and crunchy, with a slight caramelised crunch that melts in your mouth. Some people describe the taste as similar to gingersnaps or speculoos cookies but with a more complex flavour profile.

    Biscoff ice cream bars are available for an RRP of $9.50 for three bars in Woolworths stores nationwide.

    Lotus Bakeries is a Belgian company best known for its Biscoff brand, which includes cookies, spread, and now ice cream bars.

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  • Magnum rolls out new ice cream flavours

    Magnum rolls out new ice cream flavours

    Premium ice cream brand Magnum is expanding its line nationwide with two new flavours: Double Sunlover and Double Starchaser.

    Double Sunlover combines coconut tastes with a tart mango and passionfruit swirl, all encased in white cracking chocolate and coconut pieces.

    Meanwhile, Double Starchaser mixes double-swirled popcorn and caramel tastes, and it’s covered in cracking milk chocolate with caramelised corn pieces.

    The New Magnum Double Sunlover and Double Starchaser are available in classic packs of 4, with an RRP of $11.50, and sticks with an RRP of $5.40.

    According to the brand, Magnum Double features the “signature cracking chocolate”, sourced from sustainable cocoa beans certified by the Rainforest Alliance.

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  • Gelatissimo debuts new gelato pint range in Coles

    Gelatissimo debuts new gelato pint range in Coles

    The frozen food aisle at one major supermarket has just gotten a brand new addition with a popular dessert making its grocery shop debut.

    Ice cream chain Gelatissimo has launched tubs of ice cream that can be picked up at your local Coles supermarket, making some of the brand’s favorite flavors available outside of its own stores for the first time.

    The five flavours will be available from September 28, with a price discount for the first two weeks on shelves.

    The flavours include Caramel Cookie Butter, Cheesecake Swirl, Decadent Chocolate, Peanut Butter Brownie and Italian Hazelnut.

    “We developed this range with our loyal family of customers in mind,” Gelatissimo’s head of product innovation Filiz Kaya said.

    “We looked at our most popular flavours as well as ones that have stood the test of time, then also considered current trends both here and around the world to create this range.”

    The products will be available at Coles.

    Gelatissimo has 42 stores in Australia as well as 26 others around the world.

    It comes as the gelato business celebrates it’s 20th anniversary, with plans for several new stores in Australia by the end of the year.

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  • Magnum ice cream launches new flavours

    Magnum ice cream launches new flavours

    Self-expression comes to life in many forms – from the way we indulge in our favorite treats to the way we dress, style our hair and paint our nails. Magnum ice cream, the chocolatiers of ice cream, is collaborating with female-founded, independent beauty brand, Nails.INC to launch a line of six chocolate-scented nail polishes inspired by the new Magnum ice cream Duet Bars.

    Magnum ice cream Duet Bars are the first ice cream bar to be dipped in two different types of chocolate and are available in three indulgent flavors: Almond, Chocolate and Cookie. Inspired by the Duet Bars’ chocolate layering, Magnum ice cream x Nails.INC unveils three sets of polish duos in a variety of creamy shades that encourage fans to explore their own layers and indulge in who they are through nail art.

    Meet the polishes:

    1. Almond Duet: Recreate the sweet and crunchy coating of the Almond Duet Bar with Glazed Almond, a buttery shade of light brown and Double Chocolate, a rich dark brown.
    2. Chocolate Duet: Bring the Chocolate Duet Bar to life with Raspberry Swirl, a vibrant hot pink paired with White Chocolate, a silky light pink.
    3. Cookie Duet: Inspired by the Cookie Duet Bar, this pairing comes with Crunchy Cookie, a quintessential beige and Classic Chocolate, the perfect chocolate-y brown.
    To celebrate the launch, Magnum ice cream has partnered with celebrity nail artist, Mei Kawajiri to create three, trendy nail art designs using the Duet polishes and bring to life Magnum ice cream’s new Duet Bars in a unique way.

    “As a nail artist, I’m always looking for over-the-top ways to express myself,” says Mei Kawajiri. “I love to incorporate sensory experience into my designs, so I was thrilled when Magnum ice cream teamed up with Nails.INC to create richly pigmented and chocolate-scented, polishes – allowing me to showcase my favorite ice cream treats through three creative, unexpected designs.”

    Fans can recreate Mei’s looks at home by heading to Amazon and nailsinc.com to purchase the Magnum ice cream x Nails.INC nail polishes for $7.99 each and their local freezer aisles to purchase Magnum ice cream Duet Bars for the Retailer Suggested Price of $4.49–$4.99.

    “As the chocolatiers of ice cream, we’re always looking to push the boundaries and release innovative products our ice cream fans crave,” said Russel Lilly, general manager of Unilever Ice Cream for total North America. “Now, we’re excited to give chocolate lovers another way to express themselves, inspired by our iconic Belgian chocolate and designed with everyone in mind.”

    This June and July, New York City, Miami and Los Angeles-area fans are invited to Magnum ice cream’s Indulgence Studio to create their own #MagnumMoments at Magnum ice cream pop-ups taking place at the stylish and award-winning Freehand hotel in New York City and Los Angeles, and the Generator hotel in Miami.

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  • Cookie Dough range can be baked or eaten raw

    Cookie Dough range can be baked or eaten raw

    Snacking on raw cookie dough is a lot like watching reality TV: You know it’s bad for you, you know other people will judge you if you admit to it, but it just feels so good. Well, if you’re someone who likes munching on break-and-bake cookie dough while bingeing Love Is Blind (that sounds AMAZING right now), I have great news for you. Pillsbury has been swapping out its traditional cookie dough recipe for dough that you can safely eat raw!

    We first spotted this news on the Instagram @Candyhunting, who posted a photo of some new packaging that boasted Pillsbury Chocolate Chunk & Chip cookie dough was safe to eat raw or baked.

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    Not only that, Candyhunting said that this would soon be the case for ALL Pillsbury cookie dough thanks to using “heat-treated flour and pasteurized eggs to kill off possible foodborne pathogens.”

    That might sound way too good to be true, but it is, in fact, true! Pillsbury confirmed to Delish that it is transitioning all its refrigerated cookie doughs to be safe to eat raw or baked by the end of summer 2020. Not only that, but also all of its refrigerated brownie dough will be safe to eat raw or baked too!

    They also clarified that this recipe will just be tweaked to use ingredients to make it safe to be eaten raw—it will still taste like the classic cookies you know and love.

    If you follow the world of food closely though, you might know that it can take a while for products to be swapped in though, so for now and always, you should be checking to make sure you see the “safe to eat raw” seal on packaging before going to town. If you see that though, well, fire up The Bachelor and get to snacking!

  • Ben & Jerry’s wades into Palestine controversy unexpected

    Ben & Jerry’s wades into Palestine controversy unexpected

    Ben & Jerry’s has said it will stop selling its ice cream in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The US company said sales “in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)” were “inconsistent with our values”. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said the move was “morally wrong” and would prove to be “financially wrong”.

    The West Bank and East Jerusalem have been under Israeli control since the 1967 Middle East war.

    More than 600,000 Jews live in about 140 settlements there. Most of the international community considers the settlements illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.

    “We have a longstanding partnership with our licensee, who manufactures Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in Israel and distributes it in the region,” the statement said.

    “We have been working to change this, and so we have informed our licensee that we will not renew the license agreement when it expires at the end of next year.”

    Ben & Jerry’s also runs two “scoop shops” in Israel and said it would distribute its goods in Israel through a different agreement, the details of which would be announced “when we’re ready”.

    UK firm Unilever, which has owned Ben & Jerry’s since 2000, says the decision was taken and announced by Ben & Jerry’s and its independent board, but it remained “fully committed” to maintaining a presence in Israel.

    Ben & Jerry’s Israeli licensee was quoted by the Haaretz newspaper as saying: “Global Ben & Jerry’s decided not to renew the agreement with us in another year and a half in light of our refusal [to comply] with their demand and stop selling throughout Israel.”

    “We call on the Israeli government and consumers not to permit a boycott of Israel… Ice cream is not part of politics.”

    Israeli politicians reacted furiously to the announcement.

    “The boycott of Israel – a democracy surrounded by islands of terror – reflects a complete loss of bearings. The boycott does not work and will not work, and we will fight it with all our might,” Mr Bennett said.

    Foreign Minister Yair Lapid called Ben & Jerry’s move a “disgraceful capitulation” to anti-Semitism and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which calls for a complete boycott of Israel over its treatment of the Palestinians.

    “Over 30 states in the United States have passed anti-BDS legislation in recent years. I plan on asking each of them to enforce these laws against Ben & Jerry’s,” he said.

    A spokesman for BDS, Mahmoud Nawajaa, it welcomed Ben & Jerry’s decision and called on the company “to end all its procedures with the apartheid Israel”.

    Ben & Jerry’s – which was founded in 1978 by best friends Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield – has a track record of campaigning on social issues such as LGBTQ+ rights and climate change.

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  • Filipino ice-cream Carmen’s Best opening in Singapore

    Filipino ice-cream Carmen’s Best opening in Singapore

    Premium Filipino ice-cream chain Carmen’s Best has opened its first overseas store in Singapore.

    The store, which held its soft opening on Monday at Capitol Singapore, offers fresh milk-based ice creams in flavors such as milk chocolate, butter pecan, and Sicilian-sourced pistachio. The brand is launching a Singapore-exclusive cheese flavored ice cream that contains chunks of cheese.

    Owner and founder Paco Magsaysay have stated a goal to become a “Filipino-made, world-class ice-cream brand.”

    The brand began as a dairy farm serving a growing number of stores and partners before launching its ice-cream products.

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  • ICE Bitcoin Futures Slated for December Launch

    ICE Bitcoin Futures Slated for December Launch

    Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is planning to launch bitcoin futures on December 9 in Singapore, following regulator’s new papers permitting the trading of derivatives tracking certain cryptocurrencies.

    The Bakkt bitcoin cash-settled monthly futures contract, denominated in U.S. dollars, will be settled against data from physically delivered Bakkt bitcoin monthly futures contract. The new contract will be listed on ICE Futures Singapore and cleared by ICE Clear Singapore.

    «Our new cash-settled futures contract will offer investors in Asia and around the world a convenient, capital-efficient way to gain or hedge exposure in bitcoin markets,» said Lucas Schmeddes, president and chief operating officer of ICE Futures and Clear Singapore.

    ICE Futures is the first of four exchanges approved by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to launch regulated futures contracts for payment tokens like bitcoin. This follows a recent MAS consultation paper green lighting crypto-linked derivatives driven in part by observed intuitional demand for a regulated product.

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  • Indian debut for Make-your-own Magnum retail concept

    Indian debut for Make-your-own Magnum retail concept

    Magnum has launched its first two pop-up stores in India, offering customers Make Your Own Magnum experience.

    The stores have opened at Phoenix Market City malls in Mumbai and Chennai.

    Like consumers before them in Bangkok Kuala Lumpur and many other cities across Asia-Pacific, customers now can design and assemble their own ice creams with their favorite flavors and toppings.

    “The concept has been an international hit and as we approach the festive season here, we saw so better way to make our loyalists dive into pure indulgence by creating their own delectable version,” said Himanshu Kanwar, head of Ice-creams India.

    The customized Magnum store will feature Make Your Own Magnum campaign until late November.

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  • Niska introduces robotic vendor through ice cream

    Niska introduces robotic vendor through ice cream

    Australian retail start-up Niska is bringing an interactive robotic experience to Melbourne with the launch of a game-changing ice cream store at Federation Square.

    Niska, Australia’s first-ever robotic retail store, offers Australian-made artisan ice-cream with a variety of flavors and toppings, all served by a team of robot staffers: Pepper, Eka, and Tony.

    The robots create a unique customer experience and “world-class service” by establishing meaningful interactions with each person.

    Visitors can even take selfies with Pepper, the social humanoid robot, and their ice cream, with photo spaces available within the store.

    With bricks-and-mortar retailers realizing the importance of creating unique and curated merchandise experiences, Niska is getting ahead of the curve with robotic retail.

    CEO and co-founder Kate Orlova said the company plans to revolutionize the retail space.

    “For us, ice-cream is just the beginning. We’re looking to expand the robotics into other areas of retail. The future is here and it is exciting! We look forward to changing the retail game and pioneering retail robotics,” she said.

    Minister for Jobs, Innovation, and Trade, Martin Pakula called it a “real feather in the cap for Victorian innovation”.

    “There is amazing work going on here in areas like robotics and artificial intelligence – and the ice-cream’s also pretty good,” he said.

    Niska is now open at Tenancy 20, Crossbar Building Federation Square.

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  • Little Damage Opens in Singapore

    Little Damage Opens in Singapore

    Los Angeles ice cream shop Little Damage has launched in Singapore with a second outlet already in planning.

    Decked out in black-and-white checkered prints, the first outlet at Wheelock Place mainly caters to takeaways. The walls are decorated with neon phrases seen in its LA outlet, such as “I Like Love You” and “Cute But Psycho, But Cute” for photo ops.

    A second outlet will be opened by the end of this year. Stores also sell goods including tumblers and bags, with plans to add apparel soon.

    Little Damage has been brought to Singapore by Caerus Holding, which also operates other F&B local franchises, including cake boutique Lady M.

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  • Dairy Queen seeks growth througout Asia

    Dairy Queen seeks growth througout Asia

    Ice cream/fast-food restaurant Dairy Queen seeks to expand in Asia, first focussing on South Korea.

    CEO Troy Bader says the Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary has more than 450 locations in Thailand and more than 800 in China.

    “Asia, and really Southeast Asia, have been wonderful markets for us,” he says. And despite worsening trade relations between the US and China, it is not likely the company’s plans to expand into Asia will be affected, reports DevDiscourse.

    Dairy Queen opened its first store in Seoul at the end of last year and has just launched its third outlet.

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