We have learned, in times like this, when words are not enough, to fall back on our values and to let them lead the way. For us, that means facing into what comes, as a fellowship united by our values of community, equality, love, and hard work. The health and safety of our employees, customers,…
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Contactless Service: How we’re keeping our community safe
At Jeni’s, the health and safety of our employees, customers, and communities is our top priority. As the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis continues to evolve, we are continuing to evolve our response as a company. With our hearts on the most vulnerable and at-risk in our population, we want to provide you with the details about…
Recipe: JBB’s Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
Jeni’s Pineapple Upside Down Cake Makes 8 servings For the Lady Cake 1 cup cake flour (not self-rising), wheat pastry flour, cornstarch, or gluten-free flour ¼ teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon baking powder ¾ teaspoon fine sea salt 6 tablespoons (¾ stick) unsalted butter, softened ¾ cup sugar 2 large eggs, at room temperature…
Meet our Outlander-inspired ice cream
If you follow Jeni, then you know she’s fallen hard down the Outlander wormhole (she may or may not have a life-size Jamie Fraser cutout in her office)—and happily pulled many in the office down with her. So, when Starz asked us to create an ice cream to celebrate the show’s Season 5 premiere on…
Proud to be a B Corp Best For The World honoree
When I started Jeni’s, I went about building a business the way I thought it should be done; creating the type of company my 12-year-old self would want to work at. I thought that’s how everybody does it. It’s most certainly NOT the usual, but it took me a very long time to realize how…
Recipe: Blondies + BBAB for life
Forget brownies. These blondies have way more fun. Golden and studded with white chocolate chips. And butter. So much glorious butter. We convinced JBB to let us relinquish her signature, easier-than-a-box-cake blondie recipe. The only string attached? That we double down on the richness factor and top it with a hefty scoop of Brown Butter…
Recipe: The only chocolate cake you’ll ever need
Every ice cream maker has a go-to chocolate cake recipe. This is Jeni’s. A rich, dark chocolate cake that melts in your mouth. Really all it needs is a little powdered sugar for dusting. But it’s especially impressive as a layer cake with fluffy white frosting — and served with a scoop of ice cream,…
Impress all your friends: Biscuit Ice Cream Sandwiches
I call these Bauer House Biscuits because they fall somewhere between a biscuit and a Parker House roll. They are buttery and crispy on the outside and a dream inside. The yeast dough and the butter create pockets of air and rise. Light yet hearty, buttery yet yeasty, these biscuits are perfection. I think you’re…
Jeni’s Sundae Board: Pride edition
Happy Pride! It’s time to invite your neighbors, friends, family — anyone who you’d love to celebrate with or get to know better over ice cream. In our humble opinions, there is no better (and easier) way to wow a crowd than with a sundae board (think of it as a cheese board, but with…
Our march toward zero waste in our shops
Big things are afoot over here. When Jeni started the company in 2002, her mission was to use every dollar we earned to get better every single day. Each year’s improvement is our measure of success. That’s as true for the ice cream we make, to the ingredients we source, to our sustainability efforts in…
Q&A with the fine folks of Slingshot Coffee
For most of her youth, Jenny Bonchak couldn’t understand why people would gather around this terrible beverage called coffee. Specifically at the tiny diner where she waitressed during high school. She’d watch the same old men belly up to the counter every single day for endless cups of the burnt, bitter liquid. “That was their…
A note from Jeni: Flavors so spectacular, they never needed dairy
It’s a banner day for us at Jeni’s. Today is the day we shake up the dairy-free game forever with four vegan ice creams that are so good, even you steadfast dairy lovers will love them. Myself included! Before we get to the flavors themselves, I want to explain a little about how we got…
5 ideas for enjoying ice cream for breakfast
Listen, we know you don’t need an excuse to eat ice cream before noon. But what if we said you could enjoy ice cream for breakfast while supporting a great cause? That, my friends, is the very definition of a win-win situation. Join us on Saturday, Feb. 2—Ice Cream for Breakfast Day. (And, no. We…
Cook from the Book: Sister Pie
If our newsfeeds tell us anything right now, it’s that pie season is officially upon us (though we’d readily argue that anytime is a good time for pie). That means we’re reaching for one thing: the new Sister Pie cookbook from Lisa Ludwinski. We’ve been anticipating the release of Lisa’s book from the moment we…
How it’s made: Pumpkin 5-Spice ice cream
Real talk: Pumpkin is a very broad term. Like peppers or beer, there’s a breadth of varieties, each with its own style, flavor, and ideal use. For example, if you’re going to bake a pumpkin pie you might reach for a little round sugar pumpkin. If you want to make a savory soup, a butternut…