Sweet Creativity: Annual Ice Cream Contest Debuts New Batch of 'Amazing' Frozen Flavors | Office of News & Media Relations
Matias Vega Figallo works on his first-place sorbet. AMHERST, Mass. – Choosing a winner in the annual food science ice cream contest at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has become an endeavor as deliciously painful as a brain freeze. “I’m a little gobsmacked. What an amazing selection of flavors,” contest judge Judy Herrell, proprietor of Herrell’s ice cream and bakery shop in Northampton, told the students in Matthew Steffen’s perennially popular food-processing course. “This is hard.” In the end, after tasting the 10 ice cream prototypes developed by students in the ...