Using The Force: Brooklyn Ice Cream Shop Whips Up 'Star Wars' Themed Flavors
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- One Brooklyn ice cream shop is feeling the force this holiday season, unleashing new ice cream flavors aimed to please both Siths and Jedis alike.
Ample Hills Creamery, of Prospect Heights, teamed up with Lucasfilm and Disney to create two new flavors celebrating the release of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens.'
Ample Hills Creamery CEO Brian Smith told 1010 WINS that Bob Iger, chief executive officer of the Walt Disney Company, is a big fan of their ice cream. So when the highly-anticipated Star Wars reboot was announced, Smith knew he wanted in on the action.
"I was seven when Star Wars came out and my background is writing bad sci-fi movies -- 'monster of the week' type of movies," Smith said. "So I knew I wanted to do a Star Wars-themed ice cream, and so I reached out to him."
Smith said the light and the dark flavors are not just random creations -- they have a story behind it.
The 'Dark Side' has these little white chocolate pearls in an otherwise very dark ice cream -- to represent the little bit of light that's still within the Dark Side, waiting to get out," Smith said.
"The 'Light Side' is an inverse of that, with a marshmallow white ice cream... with little bits of chocolate crispies in it to represent the dark that's still lurking there."
The flavors also come in reusable plastic pint containers -- turning the cup in to a Star Wars collectible.
1010 WINS reported that Iger is set to visit Ample Hills Creamery this week to try out the flavors.
"It's been absolutely thrilling," Smith said of the project. "That moment was incredible -- of just jumping up and down with excitement that we we'd get to be sort of a little tiny piece of this big story."
If you're looking to taste the ice cream, you have to order it online, with shipments starting on Dec. 9.
'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' will be released in theaters on Dec. 18.
