FFCE provides ice cream production solutions for you to create delicious, innovative novelty products. Novelty ice creams are simply new spins on the usual ice creams where the consumer gets to enjoy new tastes and experience mind-blowing textures, flavors or shapes. Our specialized knowledge and over two decades, guarantee that your novelty ice cream products are not only tasty but enjoyable to use as well.
The services include Ingredient Selection, Formulation Methods, and Freezing & Packaging to achieve novelty shapes appealing and fulfilling consumers’ desire for an exclusive ice cream indulgence. We also facilitate ERP Solutions, Licensing, and Permitting Assistance, Documentation Preparation and Management, and Import Export compliance. These are fun, unique variations of traditional ice cream, often featuring exciting textures, flavors, and shapes. Our expertise and decades of experience ensure that your novelty ice cream products not only taste delicious but deliver a memorable and enjoyable experience.
We provide support in Ingredient Selection, Formulation Techniques, and Freezing & Packaging Solutions to create novelty ice creams that maintain their structural integrity and offer a satisfying, indulgent treat. We also assist in ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Solutions, Licensing and Permitting Assistance, Documentation Preparation and Management, and Import and Export Compliance. We also assist in sourcing third-party manufacturers since many of our clients need to have their production line increase.
What is Novelty Ice Cream?
Ice cream novelty means new and exciting versions of the familiar ice cream products normally created and styled in different shapes, flavors or textures. It can be molded into bar, sandwich, cone, pop, or any form that is beyond the scoop of ice cream. There are many varieties of novelty ice creams as they can be covered with chocolates or enrobed in cookies, decorated with sprinkles or nuts, and are easy to hold, look good, and taste delicious.
The manufacture of novelty ice cream entails using a very good ice cream base for the final product. This base usually contains milk, cream, sugar, and stabilizers which once blended make this product have a very creamy texture. Depending on the flavor that is desired extra ingredients such as vanilla, chocolate, fruit pulp or essence are escalated to the mixture.
The base for the ice cream is prepared by combining milk, cream and sugar, and then the dessert is frozen with the help of modern freezing methods providing a uniform and tender consistency. For novelty ice creams, the freezing procedure is ordinarily accompanied by shaping or molding that the innovative designs are made. The ice cream can be extruded and used to make bars, sandwiches or cones then frozen immediately to get its shape.
The novelty ice creams are often frosted afterward with chocolates or cocoa; they can be coated with sauces, or sprinkled with materials like nuts, cookies or sprinkles among others to add texture on the ice cream. Such components offer the opportunity to get a desirable crust or taste difference, so the product becomes more sinful and attractive.
The last process is the wrapping of novelty ice cream in moisture-proof papers or containers that do not cause freezer burn and result in spoilt products. The packaging has to fit a product and its purpose so that while protecting its shape and preserving its looks, it will also be easy to use for consumers. Such ice cream can be single-serve or multi-pack with holders that make it possible for consumers to use the products while on the move or at home.
Types of Novelty Ice Cream
Novelty ice creams may be categorized into different styles and forms and were notable for being new takes or twists on conventional frozen creams. Here are some common types:
- Ice Cream Bars: A type of candy bar that has one bar in each wrapper packed in different flavors and covered in either chocolate or caramel.
- Ice Cream Sandwiches: Frozen dairy product located in-between two cookies, cake or other kinds of pastry.
- Ice Cream Popsicles: Popsicle like products that have multiple flavors, and contain fruit purees or swirls.
- Cone Innovations: Novelty cones or cones which contain some sort of topping addition, like specialty sauces, or cones that are filled.
- Layered and Swirled Treats: Products that contain one or more additional layers, represented by a contrast between two or more flavors or consistencies.
The Production process of Novelty ice cream
Making of novelty ice cream hence requires number of steps so as to come up with the best product with quality, standard and most importantly, novel product. Here’s a detailed overview of the process:
Unless otherwise stated, all ingredients were chosen for their health benefits to consumer and for cost efficiency to the manufacturer through local sourcing.
- Objective: Use the best quality materials to achieve the best result possible hence the food product.
- Process:
- Base Mix: Prepare a good base to which you add milk, cream, sugar, and stabilizers to thicken it. Changes in fat content and sweeteners may be made depending on a certain product type.
- Flavorings and Add-ins: Choose a range of natural or artificial essences, monumental fruit purees and extras such as chocolate drops, nuts or streaks.
- Specialty Ingredients: For innovative products, use exotic fruits, spices, herbs, or gourmet sauces and dressing in the food products.
Mixing and Pasteurization
- Objective: Provide homogeneity and achieve product standardization.
- Process:
- Mixing: Add milk, cream and other optional ingredients and also sweeteners to make a smooth mixture. That means sometimes incorporating flavor enhancers and other ingredients as per the product packaging and design.
- Pasteurization: In order to kill some other types of dangerous bacteria the mixture should be heated to about 85°C (180°F) for 30 minutes or to 90°C (190°F) for 10 minutes. After that, quickly cool it to a temperature of 4°C (39°F).
Freezing and Forming
- Objective: Obtain the right texture feel and shape of the novelty product.
- Process:
- Freezing: Some products similar to ice cream bar/ sandwich can freeze the base mix into molds/ containers. This process involves pulling down the temperature of the mix to between -6°C and – 8°C(21°F and 18°F respectively while folding in air to create a light mixture.
- Forming: Form the frozen mix into the sought-after novelty configuration. This may include shaping, boning or building a number of parts including coating bars with chocolate or assembling ice cream sandwiches.
Coating and Assembly
- Objective: Coat, layer or top the food to make it more palatable or garnish it with something that makes it look more delicious.
- Process:
- Coating: Use, for example, chocolate or caramel or candy coatings on bars or popsicle products. This comprises applying the coating either by immersing the product in it or by using a spraying apparatus then letting the coating solidify.
- Assembly: For products such as ice cream sandwiches it is recommended that components are formed by placing ice cream between baked foods or having successively different flavors.
Packaging and Labeling
- Objective: Shield the product in order to offer consumers some information.
- Process:
- Packaging: Novelty ice-creams should be packed in additional materials like wrappers, containers, bags or boxes among other things. Packaging of the product has to protect its quality, minimize the effect of freezer burn, and ease handling.
- Labeling: Record the number of calories, type of ingredients used in preparation of the meals and time periods within which the food should be consumed. Labels should withstand conditions and be waterproof; all information required by a consumer should be placed on the label clearly and concisely.
Packaging Solutions for Novelty Ice cream
To keep the novelty ice creams in proper quality, freshness and look, packaging plays a very important role. Picking right packaging material is the key to protect the product, its ease and satisfaction level of the end consumer. Here are the key types of packaging materials used:
- Wrapper Films
- Objective: Offer individual protection and become fresh.
- Materials:
- Plastic Films: They recommended that ice cream bars or popsicles be covered with heat-sealable multi-layer films. These films prevent freezer burn and moisture intrusion at the same time and are designed to be easy open.
- Aluminum Foil: Offers a good protection against light, moisture and oxygen and most suitable for quality or superior type products.
- Boxes and Cartons
- Objective: Provide covering for more than one portion and must be easy to maneuver.
- Materials:
- Paperboard: Ideal for covering ice cream sandwiches or even multiple bars of soap and chocolate. Paperboard is affordable, versatile because it can be recycled and is easy to print with bold graphics.
- Corrugated Cardboard: Used in large packaging, whereby the material confers strength and resistance when used to transport products.
- Pouches
- Objective: Offer convenient and easy-to-carry packaging types.
- Materials:
- Multi-layer Laminated Films: Suitable for stand up pouches or flexible packing. Provides a barrier to light, air and moisture though has features of the resealable spout in some packs.
Sustainability
Objective: Reduce harm on the environment and direct your marketing to the environmentally conscious customer.
Sustainable Practices:
- Recyclable Materials: Use such things as paperboard and aluminium foil which are environmental friendly in their production.
- Reduced Packaging Weight: Many products with packaging face the issues of using much material while still having inadequate protection, and therefore product packaging should be designed to use least material it will require while providing sufficiently secure packaging for the product.
- Biodegradable Options: Though paper has widely been used in the packing of confectionery products consider using biodegradable material on wrappers and pouches.