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It’s an inlet of ice cream along the Red Hook waterfront, a place where you can eat, pray (to) and love the cold, creamy stuff that gets us through humid summers and bad days: Ample Hills’ 15,000-square-foot factory. The scoop shop there has been serving for a few weeks, but the newly opened museum invites the public to explore the stories behind flavors such as Chocolate Milk & Cookies and Ooey Gooey Butter Cake. It’s mostly practical — the Brooklyn-born company needed a new facility to keep up with demand — but allows for a look inside the process of creating the company’s ice cream and fillings.
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Four words: chocolate mousse on tap. The creator of this confection, Oded Brenner, likes to call it Clouds, but whatever the moniker, know this: It’s made on the spot, and you can opt for Nutella foam.
At Brenner’s new cacao shop Blue Stripes, the milkshake-like beverage shares a menu with plenty of items in line with the chocolatier’s “there is no too much chocolate to a real chocolate lover” sensibility, including shots of pure milk chocolate — called “Tito, that’s for you” in honor of his daughter — and a white chocolate chai latte. To eat, you’ll find chocolate pizza and chocolate-covered soft pretzels among the options.
And if the surname sounds familiar, it does indeed come with cacao credentials: Brenner is a co-founder of international brand Max Brenner.
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