Thursday, March 19, 2009
Sweet potato pie ice cream is the first of several new Kleinpeter Farms flavors to hit the grocery shelves this year. The local dairy farm, which last year began making chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream, has been experimenting with quirky new flavors that embrace Louisiana recipes and ingredients such as café au lait using Community Coffee, bananas foster praline made with Aunt Sally’s Pralines and Elmer’s Gold Brick made with the Hammond candy bar eggs.
“Nothing makes me happier than going to a locally owned restaurant that supports locally grown,” says Jeff Kleinpeter, president. “I know where I like it best. I’m real picky about that.”
The sweet potato ice cream, mixed in with bits of pie crust, tastes just like sweet potato pie. The idea stemmed from an old family recipe via Cy Brown of Bruce Foods in New Iberia, which grows produce such as yams and makes hot sauce. “We were just talking and he mentioned sweet potato ice cream,” Kleinpeter recalls. “I curled my lip, but he said, ‘Nah, try it.’” Kleinpeter said he took one taste and knew he could sell a lot of this.
The new flavors and when you can find them are:
- Sweet potato pie, made with yams from Bruce Foods of New Iberia, on shelves now.
- Elmer’s Gold Brick, made with Elmer’s Gold Brick Eggs headquartered in Hammond, on shelves next week.
- Café au lait, made with Community Coffee, hits shelves today and Friday.
- Bananas foster praline, made with Aunt Sally’s Pralines of New Orleans, as well as rocky road and banana pudding, hit shelves within the next four weeks.
Kleinpeter continues to focus on expanding the ice cream line, experimenting with flavors such as blueberry, Ruston peach, mint chocolate chip and Mardi Gras. “Gollee, I can’t wait for triple chocolate with little chocolates, bite-sized cows,” he said enthusiastically.
Pints of Kleinpeter are now on sale in stores, and next week look for 3-oz. containers of vanilla and chocolate for children’s birthdays.
Comments
Posted by LSUAlum2009 on October 8, 2010 at 11:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Jeff Kleinpeter says he is about local products he's a hypocrite. Why doesn't he disclose where their milk comes from! Its not all from LA. In fact he hauls 6-8 loads of milk from Kansas to process in Baton Rouge instead of local milk that could amount to more than 56,000 gallons of milk a week. Due to federal regulations this practice decreases the class 1 milk price for all farmers in the state at time when most are struggling to survive. Come on Kleinpeter stop hurting the Louisiana Dairy Farmers and buy their milk instead of your friends in Kansas. It won't cost you one cent more and you know it.
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