Claire Kelsey has won best dessert in the British Street Food Awards three years in a row, and until recently was selling them from this lovely vintage style van:
Sorry about the poor photo (it was taken at this year's Nantwich Food Festival), it was just beginning to rain and it's hard to take a good photo when one hand is holding a 'Chorlton crack’ (peanut butter and salted caramel) ice cream that needs eating...
My personal view is that winter is the best time to eat ice cream - it's less likely to melt whilst your taking photos! However for those of you who are not 100% serious about ice cream, and don't want to eat it in the street in December, Ginger's Comfort Emporium has moved indoors into the weird and wonderful Afflecks in Manchester city centre.
My regular readers may recognise this area was previously occupied by the Cocoa Emporium - do you have to be called an Emporium to be here?
A board displays some of the flavours - like Marmalade on Toast (yes we're still talking about ice cream), which was the winner in last year's British Street Food awards. It's made with marmalade and caramelised breadcrumbs and an orange blossom tea sorbet.
I asked Claire which was "the best" flavour, and I could tell she was appalled by the question! She told me "they're all my favourites".
In the end I went for the plum gin and juniper ice-cream:
Whilst enjoying my ice cream, I noticed copies of her book for sale:
The book is stylish, and written with passion.
The book would make a great Christmas present - if you can bear to be parted with it.
Ginger’s Comfort Emporium
Afflecks 1st Floor
52 Church Street
Northern Quarter
Manchester
M4 1PW
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