169 or bust!
As part of Maureen’s state quest to visit something historic in each of Connecticut’s 169 towns, today we spent time driving around Hartford, Wethersfield, Newington and West Hartford. We ended our junket on Farmington Avenue in West Hartford at a popular ice artisan ice cream place called Milkcraft.
Milkcraft is a small-batch creamery that only uses local dairy products from New England farms. All their ice cream is made daily at each establishment. They use liquid nitrogen infused mixing bowls to chill their dairy mixtures that produce their soft ice-cream product.
Since there isn’t a milkshake option I went with the Bourbon Breakfast, Madagascar vanilla cream with corn fakes and Whistle Pig bourbon. Maureen had a scoop of their signature chocolate. Both of us had our ice cream on their signature “bubble cone” which is a Hong Gong caramelized waffle cone made to order.
Maureen enjoyed her single scoop of chocolate on the bubble cone. The chocolate was rich and creamy and this a unique way to make “soft” ice cream. On the other hand the Madagascar vanilla, corn flakes with Whistle Pig Bourbon was tasteless and rather boring. I found the waffle cone interesting but coming directly off the griddle it melts the ice cream, which is soft to begin with.
Milkcraft has a few shops around Connecticut and worth a stop but don’t surprised if your disappointed. I guess artisan ice cream isn’t my thing.
The Connecticut Ice Cream Quest 