Irish Black Butter ice cream

Northern Irish food businesses, Morelli’s Ice Cream and Irish Black Butter Company, have joined forces to create a new ice cream. The frozen product features Irish black butter rippled through Morelli’s double vanilla ice cream.

Arnaldo Morelli, managing director of Morelli’s, says, “We are always seeking to develop innovative flavours especially using local ingredients as well as milk sourced from local farms.

“It made sense, therefore, to see how the recently launched Irish Black Butter would work with our highly acclaimed double vanilla. It’s made from bramley apples from county Armagh. It has proved to be popular in our taste tests, feedback which encouraged us to include it among our extensive range of original flavours.”

Alastair Bell, the founder of the Irish Black Butter Company, continues, “I was delighted when Morelli’s, one of Ireland’s best-known and most respected producers of ice cream and sorbets on the island of Ireland. Working with Morelli’s on the creation of the new ice cream, which adds an important new dimension to my product, was a tremendous experience.

“It’s great to see such a longstanding success in the local food industry embracing a new product as an ingredient in the creation of an innovative ice cream. I believe this will also encourage other processors to consider Irish Black Butter consider it for other new and exciting products,” he adds.

Morelli’s has been producing ice cream in Northern Ireland since 1911 and now sells its range of products, including low-fat sorbet and frozen yogurt across Ireland.

Irish Black Butter, launched in November 2017, is on sale in around 50 delis in Northern Ireland and has recently signed distribution agreements with Centaur in Bristol and Sheridans Cheesemongers in Dublin.