Ice cream maker celebrates
A York ice cream manufacturer is celebrating after winning a specialist national award.
Acaster Malbis based Yorvale was delighted that its new Chocolate Orange Ripple ice cream was judged the winner in the Ice Cream Category of the Taste of Excellence Award in Dairy at The Cream Awards, the inaugural Dairy Industry Trade Awards.
Yorvale’s directors, Ian and Lesley Buxton beat off stiff competition to be awarded the prize at a Gala Dinner, compèred by Countryfile’s Adam Henson, at the National Motorcycle Museum last week.
“We’re so pleased to have this national trade award of this calibre at the first attempt and it’s quite ironic that a recipe inspired by York’s confectionery history should have clinched it for us,” said Lesley Buxton.
“We are a small, farm based family business and we’re very proud of our team for helping us to be able to compete with, and beat, much bigger companies.”
Of the ice cream, a spokesman from Taste of Excellence Award in Dairy sponsors, Morrisons plc, said: “The buying team sampled your ice cream, a little too well, they found the product delivered on promise, it was high quality and a delicious combination. You have successfully pulled off in this product innovation, well done Yorvale”
Yorvale uses traditional methods and the finest local ingredients to produce rich and creamy dairy ice cream and frozen yogurt. Its superior tasting ice cream is attributed to the fact that their herd of dairy cows graze on lush Yorkshire grass and because they only ever produce milk for ice cream, they only need to be milked once a day. The result is stress free cows that produce really creamy milk.
Yorvale’s extensive range of dairy ice cream, Yoryog and sorbets are available nationwide via selected wholesalers and from farm shops, independent retailers, Waitrose, Booths, Asda, Tesco and Morrisons throughout Yorkshire.
