Heres The Scoop

Here's the scoop, a local family-owned ice cream shop specializes in making small batch quality ice cream in Iowa. And as the s At the beginning of every week, here's the scoop makes their own unique, homemade flavors. The flavors are changed regularly from season to season but are also spontaneous spur of the moment creations by co-owner Chevelle Samson. Comes from everywhere, can come from a meal I had in a restaurant, a cookbook I've looked at, a customer who comes in, everywhere. Anything can get turned into ice cream. Ingredients for every ice cream flavor are always fresh and locally sourced. From the red velvet cake and their red velvet cake flavor to the honeycomb and their lavender honeycomb flavor, here's the scoop's drives to make every batch of their ice cream fresh and unique. Their menu offers an array of flavors including blueberry lemon, coffee toffee, dark chocolate praline, goat cheese roast cherry, lavender honeycomb, red velvet cake and more. Fourteen of their options are gluten free with sorbet that is dairy free as well. We constantly keep sixteen flavors in the case to scoop. They change sometimes daily and all together, oh my gosh, we probably have over fifty flavors. A hundred percent, oh way over fifty flavors. There's only thirty in the pant freezer right now. Here's the scoop makes their ice cream by adding the base of the ice cream into a giant churner. It is then mixed with their flavorings and mix-ins. As the base is churned, it is deposited into tubs. The ice cream is then mixed by hand with all of the toppings and is put into a blast freezer for twenty-four to forty-eight hours to let the flavors develop. Here's the scoop makes their waffle cones and bowls from scratch as well. They make their batter in store and use waffle irons to make their waffles and roll them into cones or make them into bowls. Along with an ice cream store, the business has expanded to having a candy store, which opened first in twenty-twenty-four. Here you can find a wide variety of products, including vintage and freeze-dried candies. But creating and running a business comes with its own challenges. Chevelle Sampson and her husband decided to make a creative career change and start their own ice cream business in two thousand seventeen. Sampson had previously taught school for fourteen years and now helps run the business full time. While an exciting career change, the business requires a lot of time and effort to run, especially during the s I work more now than I did when I was a teacher. It's your on-call seven days a week. I do many jobs. It's fun, it's different, but it's more work, but I enjoy it. From the amount of workers they have to the time and effort they put into sourcing and making their ice cream, here's the scoop puts in the work to make their business special. You can enjoy their products at two locations, Davenport or Leclerc, Iowa. You can also book their ice cream truck for any fun events. For Plows and Valley Sprite and Shield, I'm Swetha Narmada.