One of our most popular, beautiful and daring Ice Creams, Blueberry Kale, shown here in a Cake Cone :) 

Over the next two days by eating Ice Cream at The Hop(s) you will help contribute to 2 great causes. Today your Ice Cream purchase will benefit Western North Carolina AIDS Project as part of Dining Out For Life. Tomorrow your Ice Cream purchase will benefit the YWCA of Asheville as part of the annual Stand Against Racism! See all participators in the links below.

Dining Out For Life Participators  

Stand Against Racism Participators

Restocked the freezer in the UNC Asheville Highsmith with a wide variety of homemade dairy and Vegan Ice Creams :)

Recent Ice Cream Cakes decorated by our awesome employees :)

Flavors, which are all Vegan and Gluten Free, here at the @UNCAhealthfair :)

Morning, folks! Today from 11am-2pm we’ll be set up with all #Vegan Ice Cream at the UNC Asheville Health Fair, which is held in the Sherrill Center & Kimmel Arena. Also, it’s Thursday, which means 20% off to all UNC Asheville OneCard holders (10% off every day)!

Ice Cream Cake made to look like a pizza, decorated by Ashley.

Cartoon Hermione Ice Cream Cake, decorated by Gretchen :)

This week we debuted our newest flavor, Egg Fruit (or Yellow Sapote) Ice Cream, which is for sale now. What we didn’t tell you is that we also purchased some Chocolate Pudding Fruit (or Black Sapote (shown above)) from the same tropical fruit distributor. It tastes just like it’s named and is delicious. We made this last night and it should be on the menu within the next 48 hours. I’ll let you know :)

Dropped off assorted Ice Cream pints at the UNC Asheville Highsmith food court!
Dairy flavors include:
Salted Caramel
Chocolate
Mocha Oreo
Espresso Bean
Strawberry
Mint Chocolate Chip
Vegan flavors include:
Mango Sorbet
Rum Raisin Banana Cream
Cinnamon Coconut Milk
Strawberry Soy Milk
Almond Butter Almond Milk!

Forty Fingers and a Missing Tooth juggling show this Tuesday 2/19 from 6-7pm!!! As always our events are free and fun for all ages :)

So a customer of ours, who also is an exotic tropical fruit distributor travelling back and forth from Asheville to South Florida, recently stopped by to see if we were interested in using what he had to make Ice Cream. We are excited to say that we were interested and today we made a new Egg Fruit (or Canistel) Ice Cream! It’s extremely creamy (as you can see from the photo below) and has a flavor that, while delicious, is sort of difficult to describe (think something like a melon crossed with an avocado?!). The farm the Canistels came from is called Possum Trot Farm, which is owned and operated by Robert Barnum (interestingly enough, a distant relative of circus mogul, P.T. Barnum). For more on Mr. Barnum and Possum Trot Farm, here’s a link -> http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/shortorder/2009/02/robert_barnum_of_possum_trot_t.php

Restocked the freezer in UNC Asheville Highsmith with pints of the following flavors (more Vegan flavors Tuesday):
Salted Caramel
Espresso Bean
Chocolate
Nutella!

Now taking orders for Sweetheart Ice Cream Cakes! We have three options. Large Heart (serves 6-8) is $14 + tax. Small Heart or Personal Cake are ($7 + tax and are perfect for 1 or 2). All cakes are available Vegan for $1 extra. You can call 2542224 or 2525155 if you’d like to order :)

Restocked the freezer in UNC Asheville’s Highsmith with the following Ice Cream flavors:
Bulldog Tracks
Salted Caramel
Girl Scout Thin Mint
Birthday Cake
Kahlua Fudge
Vegan Ice Cream Flavors:
Chocolate Coconut Milk
Chocolate Banana Cream
Mocha Latte Almond Milk
Lychee Sorbet