MILKMADE ice cream

MilkMade is a craft ice cream business that was previously located in New York City from 2009-2019 and is now reloacted to Los Angeles.

We offer premium ice creams in the most innovative flavors. Every batch is made from scratch using the finest, responsibly produced ingredients from local farms and other food artisans in our community. We previously 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. Currently, we operate out of a shared kitchen in Los Angeles.

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 city and shipping pints to thousands of homes nationwide. We opened a scoop shop in front of our factory in Brooklyn which ran from 2015-2019.

After ten wild and wonderful years hand-delivering pints in New York and five seasons scooping cones at our scoop shop in Brooklyn, I decided it was time to close that chapter and see what else life had in store for me. You can read more about the decision to close here on the MilkMade website. In November of 2019, MilkMade closed its doors in New York. Since then, I have expanded Milkmade’s mission to deliver exceptional ice cream by way of local catering in Los Angeles, ice cream making classes, and sharing recipes with an online community.