How Ice Cream Is Made

Milk, cream, and sugar are mixed together, along with your favorite flavors and mix-ins to create a tasty, creamy, cold, yummy treat.

 

SMC ice cream in a bowl with blue spoon

From Cow to Cone

After our cows are milked, the milk is brought to the processing plant and we get right to work on creating our signature flavors.

Super Premium Ice Cream

We begin with fresh milk and cream that we blend with sugar and select ingredients to create our signature ice cream base. After pasteurization, we add carefully-chosen flavors and mix-ins—like cookie dough and chocolate chips—to bring each variety to life. The result is a rich, high-quality ice cream made from a recipe we’ve perfected over more than 25 years.

Once the ice cream is made, and packaged, either a pint, 1.75 qt or 3 gallon pail, the batch is moved to our blast freezer, which hardens the ice cream incredibly fast -20 degrees Fahrenheit, giving it the smooth texture you know and love!

a cow in a field

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