A few quick updates!

We are very proud to announce our new 16 ounce containers are now in Lexington Coop, Premier Gourmet and Farmers and Artisans. We are continuing this weekend and later this week to get our new containers in all of our locations. Our new containers are 33% bigger and we are keeping them the same price! Go out and give one a try! MORE ICE CREAM… SAME PRICE!!

We have been working really hard to get these out and we are sorry if you run into one of our locations that might be low on flavors. Don’t worry, the new ones are coming and then the shelves will be filled within the week!

Also, we are almost finished with our Queen City Roller Girls Rocky Road and are just waiting on the labels to finish at the printer. We will announce it here as soon as this ice cream is available in stores. (which will be soon!!) We are hoping to have our ice cream available at the Roller Girls bouts and all of the proceeds will go to benefit and support the girls. We will be bringing a bunch of our flavors and Queen City Rocky Road as soon as it’s ready.

Check out the Queen City Roller Girls at qcrg.net and go to a bout. The next one is on Jan 23rd at the Rainbow Rink at North Tonawanda. –Trust us, you will have a ball!

We are going old school with this one!

After much deliberation and continuing experimentation we have decided to make a very traditional rocky road ice cream. The only difference is that it will be the most unbelievable rocky road that you have ever eaten. We think that Roller derby is old school, so we decided that the ice cream will be too!

For those of you unfamiliar with rocky road ice cream it is creamy chocolate ice cream, mixed with sliced almonds, chunks of milk chocolate and big pieces of marshmallow.

We just finished what we believe will the unique, new label design for our Queen City Roller Girls Rocky Road. Now we just need to know what you think!

We are putting it in overdrive to get this flavor ready as well as a second new flavor for the Nickel City Cake decorating competition coming up on February 13th. (We will post more info about this awesome event soon!) The second new flavor is raspberry sweet cream lavender. We like to call it “Love Potion #9.” Should be perfect ice cream for the cake competition and Valentines Day!

As always, thanks to everyone for all of their support!

Jason and Erik
Lake Effect Ice Cream

Lake Effect is ROLLING in!

We here at Lake Effect Ice Cream have had an amazing year. Awesome new flavors, great new people to work with, brand new packaging, and more and more retail places in which we’re found. But there’s been something missing…and as hard as we’ve tried, we couldn’t put our finger on what that magic “something” was that Lake Effect needed.

Then, walking down Elmwood, I was looking down, talking on my cell with Erik when…WHAM!...a woman threw me a shoulder and dumped me on my back in a snow bank. All I caught was a quick glance at her red shirt and it looked like it said “Suicidal Saucies”. In that moment, it came to me in flash: we need the ROLLER DERBY GIRLS! So I went to the source
-the toughest, roughest group of roller derby ladies in WNY. Meeting with the Queen City Roller Girls, I found they are an intense bunch that could knock you out just a quick as they could flash you a smile. It was just what we were looking for…a little more punch for our ice cream.

As a result, we are in the process of making the Roller Girls a flavor they can call their own: The Queen City Roller Girls Rocky Road (helmet and tough-girl attitude not included). We’re also developing a “hot but sweet” offering named after the Lake Effect Furies All-Star team that’s sure to be a knockout (pun intended).

We’re proud to support this great group of women and wish them luck in their bouts, their travels, and the growth of their league. This is a bunch of hard workers that love what they do and will clean your clock if you think differently. They are uniquely Buffalo so keep a look-out for their new flavor which will be stocked everywhere when ready. In the future, it may also be available at the Rainbow Rink.

In addition, we are also working out a way to get the girls a portion of the proceeds of their own flavor to help defray the travel expenses of the Lake Effect Furies as they continue to lump any team outside of the glorious Buffalo-Niagara region.

Do yourself a favor and check them out at QCRG.net and on Facebook, and join the roller derby revolution that’s sweeping western New York. Go Furies!

The story of the nog….

I am sure this picture appears that I am in a life or death struggle with a milk container. Alas I am not, but after this was taken I can tell you without a doubt that ten gallons of authentic Hoover Dairy Egg Nog is like lifting a small vehicle. I think I am used to just lifting their glass quarts and sneaking a drink out of the fridge.

So we decided to take the most amazing egg nog and turn it into a remarkable holiday treat. We have only made 150 pints of this Christmas concoction so it is extremely limited. Currently we stock it in Niagara Produce Lockport, Niagara Produce Millersport, Omega Deli in East Amherst and also Thursday Dec. 31st in Tops Lockport.

We are sure that they wont last long so say goodbye to Christmas and welcome the new year with a pint of this incredible ice cream. Oh yeah! Check out the new containers we have packaged the egg nog ice cream in. They are the first ever preview of our new translucent pint containers. Soon all of our ice cream will be packaged in these cool containers!

So get out there and get your NOG… it won’t be out for long!

Happy Holidays

Jason and Erik

Great things in store! (literally)

We are fast approaching our second year in business and are making some exciting new improvements at Lake Effect Ice Cream!

With this post we are excited to announce our new bi-monthly newsletters! We have our below newsletter in JPEG format so you can open the picture and read our newsletter in detail and/or print it if you like.



Please check it out and give us some feedback on design, content and ease of reading. We want to be able to provide this information for you in the most efficient straightforward manner. We hope that this is it!

Some quick bits of information for you and some great new improvements for Lake Effect Ice Cream.

First of all we are moving from our 12 ounce containers to a full pint container! We found a great, recyclable container that will let us increase our product size and give you the opportunity to recycle or reuse the container!
-Oh yeah, our cool containers are translucent so you can see all of our rich ice
creams beautiful colors without even opening the container!

We have always prided ourselves in using local products in our ice cream whenever possible, but we are now going to take that to a whole new level. We have been working with many local advocates to formulate some new flavors using locally produced and farm grown products.

We are excited about adding our new “limited edition” flavors to our existing line of ice creams. We will change these flavors every few months so you can always look forward to new flavors when you buy some Lake Effect! We will be starting with our new Hoover Dairy Egg Nog ice cream for the Christmas season. We will be delivering the new egg nog ice cream to our retail locations VERY soon so don’t miss out on our first limited edition flavor!

We have so much more to tell you so please check out our newsletters and let us know what you think! You can email us at info@lakeeffecticecream.com or stop on by Facebook and leave us a message there!

Zambistro... the coolest restaurant in Medina!

We have been making ice cream for Chef Michael Zambito for a little while now and love the fact that he inspired us to make new ice creams for his unique desserts! We are proud to be included in his latest dinner club event, a five course chef’s tasting menu meal. He inspired us to create a new ginger peach flavor to add to his unique take on traditional peach cobbler. Chef Michael’s cobbler included caramelized peaches, cracked black pepper a goat cheese crumb topping and our lake effect ginger peach ice cream. Stop on down to Zambistro, a gem of a restaurant in the heart of Medina for a meal that is out of this world. Don’t forget to save room for a “flight” of lake effect ice cream or his outstanding caramel apple tart topped with our salty caramel ice cream. Enjoy!

Edible Buffalo Magazine!

We are so excited to be included in the new edition of Edible Buffalo magazine! Thank you to Lisa for sharing her love of local products and our areas fine culinary traditions with us. She is truly a passionate advocate of local foods, and is someone you need to know if you are looking to be involved in the Buffalo locavore food scene. We are proud to be included in this magazine and really look forward to future work with Lisa and her initiatives. Keep updated with the local food scene at Edible Buffalo online. You can also check out our article here in the notable edibles section of the fall 2009 issue.

Thanks again Lisa!

Farmers and Artisans Now Open!

Jo-El Drajem of Blossom Hill Farm, Julie Blackman of the Blackman Homestead Farm and David Setzer of Artful Table have banded together to offer you a unique array of
products sourced exclusively from the WNY region.

Lake Effect Ice Cream is very proud to be included in this truly remarkable new store. We are very excited to be a part of, and help continue the inevitable growth of this unique food location. Thanks for all of your help and support Julie!

If you like fresh, well crafted, locally produced and simply the best tasting food you can find then Farmers and Artisans is for you. There is truly a difference in quality and freshness, so come on down and try them out, you will not be disappointed.

Farmers and Artisans is located at…

78 East Spring Street
Williamsville, New York 14221
716-633-2830

Click here for a map!

Team Hope's Walk for Huntington’s Disease

Lake Effect Artisan Ice Cream is proud to be the official ice cream provider of this year's Team Hope Walk for Huntington’s Disease. We donated over 300 ice creams to this truly worthwhile event and were proud to be a part of this year's walk. It was great to see so many people out walking in support of HDSA. Thanks to Caren and Nikki for all the work they did, and for thinking of us, and to Barb Field who is a continuing inspiration to all those around her. If you would like more information about Huntington’s or would like to find out how you can help visit The Huntington's Disease Society of America website.

Lexington Coop!!

Well Elmwood village… say hello to your newest neighbor. Lake Effect Ice Cream is now on sale at Lexington Coop! We are very excited to have our ice cream at the Coop and hope all of the great people we have met at the Allentown West Festival and the Music is Art festival will now have access to our ice cream!

We delivered our first 80 containers this week, so hurry up and get it before the first shipment is gone!!

Flavors currently available at Lexington…

Salty Caramel
Guinness Chocolate Extra Stout
Green Tea
Red Eye Mocha Latte
Crystal Beach Loganberry
Nickel City Heat
Irish Cream
Harvest Apple

We are very excited to be at Lexington and hope that you all enjoy the new ice cream on the block! We use only the highest quality, locally produced products available. So stop on down and experience what ice cream is really supposed to taste like.

Enjoy the ice cream!

Jason and Erik

THE NATIONAL BUFFALO WING FEST!

Looking for something awesome to do this weekend? Then don’t miss the National Buffalo Wing Festival at Coca Cola Field! A day full of great food and great people all in the City of Good Neighbors. After stuffing yourself with all of those delicious wings, stop by the ice cream booth because we are sending over 5000 half pints of Lake Effect Ice Cream to cool you down!

We are very excited to be included in this Buffalo tradition and hope you stop by and have an ice cream, we made plenty! Remember… milk is one of the best ways to cool your mouth down when it is hot and let you get back to more important things… like eating more wings.

The flavors we will have at the wing fest are…

Nickel City Heat (aka chocolate chicken wing)
-Our answer to the Buffalo wing! Chocolate cinnamon ice cream with a spicy cayenne kick!
Frozen Hot Chocolate
-Hot chocolate flavored ice cream, with mini marshmallows on top.
Crystal Beach Loganberry
-A Western New York favorite! Loganberry flavored ice cream.
Vanilla Blizzard
-Smooth vanilla ice cream, turned a frosty blue, blended with Platter's white chocolate.
Salty Caramel
-Old fashioned caramel ice cream blended with pure sea salt.

Thanks as always!

Jason and Erik

We Won Best Dessert!

Woo Hoo!

Our "Deconstructed Banana Pancakes Ice Cream" tied for "Best Dessert" Sunday at the 2009 Taste of Lockport. It was plated with fresh, ripe bananas, drizzled with locally produced dark maple syrup, and topped with butter toasted pecans. Thanks to everyone who managed to come out and brave the heat!!!


Here's the glam shot of the "Deconstructed Banana Pancakes Ice Cream" i (OK, it was taken last night in our kitchen.) While your not going to find THIS in a container of our ice cream, you'll still find ripe bananas, the local maple syrup, and the butter toasted pecans. We were told the judges all said "ooooh!" We say "yummo."


We're looking forward to catching up with many of you at the Lewiston Jazz Fest!

Erik and Jason