What do you get when you mix honey, ginger, streusel, vanilla seeds, cinnamon, clove and nutmeg, bake it to a crisp, and blend it with vanilla ice cream? You get Immaculate Confection, a new Sebastian Joe’s ice cream flavor dedicated to the Basilica of St. Mary.
The Basilica staff came up with the idea to create an ice cream flavor in honor of the Minneapolis monument’s centennial celebration last year, according to Johan van Parys, director of liturgy and sacred arts at the Basilica. After discussing the idea with parishioner Michael Pellizzer, one of the owners of Sebastian Joe’s Ice Cream Cafe in Minneapolis, van Parys sent an e-mail to staff members asking for flavor suggestions.
“The wildest ideas came up,” van Parys said.
One person suggested a flavor called Basilica Windows — vanilla ice cream with swirls of strawberry and blueberry syrup, chocolate chips, orange and lemon peel. Another idea was Basilica Blend, a diverse mix of German chocolate, Irish whiskey, Italian almonds, Mexican cinnamon and African coffee.
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I’ve looked around and can’t find a measured recipe for this desert. I’d like to give it a try. If anyone knows the recipe, or a close one, please give a link?
Right now, most of the recipe sounds more like making just the cone while the actual desert is mostly just vanilla ice cream?
And if you eat too much of this ice cream you end up with the holy shits.
Sorry, if it doesn’t prominently feature pasta, it simply doesn’t fulfil my religious relief.
[Even the FSM likes dessert! – ed.]
As long as its not a Protestant church.
#3 Agreed!! All hail the FSM’s noodly appendages!
#3, Mr. W. Reaper,
It does if you worship ice cream like I do. I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, and I don’t do drugs. But I love my ice cream.
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Jesus! – you couldn’t make this stuff up!! (statement not question!)
I’m fairly sure that this is what’s written about the last supper…only fairly sure mind!
“While the honey, ginger, cinnamon, clove and nutmeg of the Passover streusel sufficed to withhold the judgment of God for a time, the vanilla seeds of the cone of God, the Lord Jesus, actually took away the sins of the world (John 1:29pm)”
Sebastian Joe’s is on of the sponsors of my bike racing team (MBRC/Flanders). All team rides end up at the their ice cream/coffee shop. Definitely the best ice cream in the city.
#6 Mr. Fusion
I also love ice cream but it’s been absent from my diet for several years now, not improving my disposition… not even a little bit.
(grumble, grumble, CURSE, grumble grumble)
Oh, now I’m hungry and there’s no ice cream in the house! GRR!
#10, Uncle P.
See? This is what happens when you don’t worship ice cream as I do.