St Charles MO – If you live in or around the St Louis area, you may have seen a new face in the Ice Cream Freezer cabinet at your local Grocery store. 

Blue Sky Creamery – located just west of St Louis in St Charles may have a small operation, but the folks there are cranking out over 200 pints of  ice cream an hour.

 The pints of various delicious flavors are sold through the company’s  retail store in St Charles and all around the bi state area through Schnucks and Dierbergs grocery stores.  And its not only the size of their facility that is unique.  Julie and her team have a secret patent on a machine that creates their ice cream through a liquid nitrogen process and can freeze the dairy mix extremely quickly.  This means ice crystal size is low resulting in an end product that is very smooth and creamy.  It also means that the overrun, or air in the ice cream is also a very low percentage.

You can learn more about Blue Sky Creamery by watching the video above, or at www.blueskycreamery.com

Happy Pecan Month

Along with the Georgians celebrating this annual tradition with Pecan Parades and the crowning of the Pecan Queen, you too can celebrate the humble Pecan this month with this very simple Butter Pecan Ice Cream Recipe. 

In 2008 Butter Pecan knocked out Strawberry as the 3rd most consumed ice cream flavor in the country so we know there is a lot of fans out there.

Loaded with Omega 3 oil and zinc – The Pecan is known as the “smart nut” hences its peculiar resemblance to the human brain.  In fact, even if you only made half this recipe and created Roasted Pecans they would still be a hit. 

The recipe for this ice cream is found on the recipe tab.  Have fun with it and Happy Pecan Month