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Ample Hills Creamery needs no introduction. The Brooklyn-based ice cream shop quickly became a New York dessert staple since opening its first store back in 2011.
With the debut of its first New Jersey-based shop at 200 Greene Street, Jersey City is now getting a taste of Ample Hills’ small batch ice cream and the wait was completely worth it.
The shop offers 14 flavors that range from Ooey Gooey Butter Cake to No Sleep Till Pumpkin. There are also vegan sorbets (Oh, Fudge! & Autumn in New York) and a signature Jersey City flavor called The Golden Door, which named in honor of Jersey City’s history as being the “Golden Door” for immigrants coming to the U.S. Here’s a rundown of our favorite flavors.
Autumn in New York: An apple cider sorbet made with cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and amaretto liqueur. Simply put, it tastes like delicious apple pie in sorbet form.
No Sleep Till Pumpkin: A riff on the Beastie Boys’ No Sleep Till Brooklyn, NSTP has a predominantly coffee ice cream flavor with bursts of pumpkin via the chunks of housemade pumpkin ooey gooey butter cake.
The Big Ample Circus: This limited time flavor is an absolute show-stopper. It’s ice cream loaded with housemade popcorn toffee and red sugar-coated peanuts. It makes for a gorgeous-looking scoop with a strawberry-colored swirl effect (from the red peanuts). It tastes like cracker jack and peanut ice cream. It’s easily our favorite flavor.
The Golden Door: If the cannoli filling ice cream doesn’t get you, maybe the gobs of whisky chocolate cake and German streusel crumble will. Jersey City’s signature flavor combines three of our favorite desserts into a decadent scoop of ice cream.
As a side note, this week Ample Hills — in collaboration with Disney and Lucasfilm — also debuted its Star Wars 3-Pack: First Order, Resistance, and The Force.
The Golden Door
Golden Door, No Sleep Till Pumpkin, Big Ample Circus (top to bottom)
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Ample Hills Creamery | 200 Greene Street | www.amplehills.com
