Vanilla Bean

where it all starts

Cream, sugar, egg yolk and real vanilla bean, churned slow. The base every other flavor starts from.

  • Classics
A scoop of ivory vanilla bean frozen custard
The base
Egg yolk custard, churned slow
Take it home
Hand-packed in the 16 fl oz pint
Two white paper cups heaped with ivory vanilla bean frozen custard on a sunny wooden table, with split vanilla pods and a jug of cream
A pint of Mark’s Vanilla Bean frozen custard

Take Vanilla Bean home

Every flavor is hand-packed in the pint, in the freezer by the window. Fill the freezer before the drive back down the canyon.

Goes well with

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Come get a scoop.up the canyon, since 1945

A walk-up custard window on the main street of Idaho Springs, Colorado, forty minutes west of Denver on I-70. Open every day in season.

Eighteen flavors

Every one churned at the window and hand-packed in the pint.

The Mark’s letter

New flavors, new concretes and where the truck is headed. A few times a summer.

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