MILKMADE ice cream

MilkMade was a craft ice cream business located in New York City from 2009-2019.

We offered premium ice creams in the most innovative flavors. Every batch was made from scratch using the finest, responsibly produced ingredients from local farms and other food artisans in our community. We packed each pint by hand in our factory in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn - which happened to be the smallest ice cream plant in NYC at the time.

I started MilkMade out of my desire for a better pint. After years of buying a pint a night from my local bodega, I was left increasingly unsatisfied. Pints had shrunk, the ice cream was no longer natural, and flavors were not exciting anymore.

So I took matters into my own hands. In the summer of 2009, I bought a small home ice cream machine, got in touch with local farms, and started crafting my "dream 'screams" – ice cream flavors that I had only dreamed about. Like any good secret, word got out. Stories were published, a waitlist sprang up, and I quickly realized I wasn’t the only one who wanted a better pint.

MilkMade officially launched a few months later, in December of 2009, pioneering the New York food movement, defining the craft ice cream market, and building the first model for food subscription services. With the help of the Milkmaids, I slowly grew the Membership, expanding our ice cream delivery service neighborhood by neighborhood in NYC, eventually serving thousands of Members across the country. We opened a scoop shop in front of our factory in Brooklyn which ran from 2015-2019.

After ten wild and wonderful years in business and five seasons at our scoop shop, I decided it was time to close this chapter and see what else life has in store for me. You can read more about the decision here on the MilkMade website. In November of 2019, MilkMade closed its doors. Thank you all for your incredible support throughout the years. Yours forever in ice cream.