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Ivanna Cone's newest creation, Dorothy Lynch Carrot Cake, is held by Maryann Samson at Ivanna Cone on Thursday.
Some use Nebraska鈥檚 Dorothy Lynch dressing on their salads. At Ivanna Cone, they add it to their ice cream.
As strange as it may sound, Dorothy Lynch Carrot Cake is the latest flavor being served up at the ice cream shop at 701 P St. Grace Green, the general manager, said the new ice cream has a rich cinnamon flavor with a little savory vinegar taste.
鈥淚t weirdly works,鈥 Green said. 鈥淒orothy Lynch is the base of the ice cream, but it鈥檚 not overpowering. It鈥檚 more of a back note to it. You taste the carrot cake first and then it just helps bring up the sweetness, kind of like when you put sea salt in chocolate chip cookies.鈥
Carrot cake wasn鈥檛 the only idea swirling around in their quest to make a delicious Dorothy Lynch ice cream. The tomato-based dressing, created by Dorothy Lynch, was first served in the late 1940s at a local Legion Club in St. Paul, Nebraska. Since then, it's become a household essential across the Midwest.
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鈥淲e were thinking of doing something with cornmeal and like a ricotta cheese, some sweet basil,鈥 Green said. 鈥淲e just kept experimenting and playing around with what would work best.鈥
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Ivanna Cone production manager Jon Beeck poses for a photo on Thursday.
Ultimately, the carrot cake idea came from Jon Beeck, Ivanna Cone's production manager.
鈥淒orothy Lynch is sugar, oil, vinegar and a little tomato so I was thinking carrot cake might work well with it,鈥 Beeck said. 鈥淎nd then there鈥檚 vegetables, so it鈥檚 good for you.鈥
While creating the dressing, Green said it was important for the staff to actually use the dressing rather than creating a flavor inspired by Dorothy Lynch. To do so, Beeck cooked the dressing into a sweet syrup.
鈥淭he first batch I made was maybe a little too Dorothy Lynch and I ended up adding some cinnamon to it to kind of cut through a little bit of that, but I think we got a nice balance,鈥 Beeck said.
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Ivanna Cone worker Maryann Samson works to replace a canister in the ice cream churn at Ivanna Cone on Thursday.
While Beeck is relatively new to Ivanna Cone, he鈥檚 had a long history working with flavor profiles with previous jobs in bartending and cooking at Dish restaurant. The skills were an easy transfer when he started working with ice cream.
鈥淚 like making fruit ice creams with a twist,鈥 Beeck said. 鈥淚 like ice creams that you won鈥檛 get somewhere else. Maybe something you鈥檇 expect, but with a twist.鈥
Some of his recent concoctions have included sweet corn blueberry ice cream or ones with a little spice such as Thai chili ice cream.
Beeck can take credit for the carrot cake idea, but the whole project started from a branding agency called Eleanor Creative whose clients include both Dorothy Lynch and Ivanna Cone. Green said Eleanor Creative came to them last year proposing the idea.
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Ivanna Cone, 701 P St., in the Haymarket in Lincoln.
After nearly a month of experimenting, Ivanna Cone began serving the new flavor on June 13. During the first week of sales, Green estimates around 200 people have ordered the Dorothy Lynch Carrot Cake ice cream.
鈥淲e get the whole gambit. We get people who love it, we get people who can鈥檛 stand it. But on the consensus, more people love it than they hate it, which is what we want,鈥 Green said.
For Green, she prefers it with a little bit of salted caramel on top.
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Ivanna Cone's newest creation, Dorothy Lynch Carrot Cake, is held by Maryann Samson at Ivanna Cone.
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