From Oreo’s cookies to Sugarfina’s candy, there’s going to be a lot of sweet ways to celebrate Mickey Mouse’s 90th birthday this fall, but if you like your sweet treats on the colder side, Ample Hills Creamery has you covered with three new flavors celebrating Mickey’s 90th.
Flavors, which will be available in all Ample Hills shops as well as online, are all themed around birthday cake and different eras in Mickey’s history, each with a comic strip on the container starring Mickey and Minnie Mouse:
- Triple Chocolate Surprise is a chocolate malted ice cream with chocolate fudge cake, ribbons of dark chocolate buttercream frosting and Mickey-shaped white chocolate pieces filled with fudge. The comic is inspired by Steamboat Willie, and is set in 1928.
- Confetti Celebration is a sweet cream ice cream with confetti cake, ribbons of yellow buttercream frosting and yellow Mickey-shaped white chocolate pieces filled with lemon cream. The comic is inspired by “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” sequence from Fantasia, and is set in 1958.
- Peanut Butter Jamboree is a vanilla bean ice cream with strawberry cake, ribbons of peanut butter frosting and Mickey-shaped peanut butter pieces filled with strawberry jam. The comic is a modern take on the character, set in 2018.
Fans can also spot Mickey’s friends, including Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, Daisy Duck, Chip, and Dale, in the various comic strips. Each container is collectable and reusable, and has spoons attached under the lid!
Fans can pre-order the set for $45 at AmpleHills.com. The pints will ship out starting in mid-to-late September.
We would like to let Nick LoCicero know that we heard his complaint about the shipping costs not being included when we sold the Star Wars specialty ice cream. We understand this frustration and would like to let you know that shipping costs are now included. In an unrelated matter, we increased the cost of 3 pints of ice cream to $45 dollars– or to put this in terms that WDWNT readers will understand this is $79 dollars less than a Disney After Hours ticket.
I can’t imagine this selling well without retail store distribution. I understand that $45 covers overnight shipping, expensive packaging and Disney’s cut…..but $15/pint is way too much.