Sweet Bite Confronts DC’s Winter Chills with Sweet Love

Pictured: buttermilk shortcake with homemade plum ice cream, a Sweet Bite Creamery favorite.

After working with Sweet Bite Creamery with some of their social media efforts, it was a pleasure to visit our nation’s capital and finally try their creations.  I had sampled some of Ashley Allen’s brown butter cookies, but at a tasting session with the other partner, Tricia Widgen, I finally met their genius creation:  cookies and homemade ice cream melded together.  We may have Cool Haus in LA, but Sweet Bite and their commitment to organic and local ingredients rules DC.

One culinary myth I must debunk is that ice cream is not for winter.  Not so.  The combination of fat from the ice cream and sugar from the cookies helps keep you warm, and since it’s cold outside anyway, you don’t want to risk having to buy toothpaste for sensitive teeth from the quick switch from hot to cold.  Furthermore, some flavors like pear, salted caramel, and maple syrup are a match for winter.

The sampling of homemade ice cream sandwiches was amazing: crunch dark cocoa cookies laden with cocoa nibs, with raspberry ricotta ice cream and a slathering of raspberry syrup made the palate scream for more; brown butter cookies gave chewy goodness to salted caramel; and vanilla macarons with mixed berry ice cream took you to the Paris Marais district on a February day.

Unfortunately I do not have pictures of those creations as my hand could not hold a camera and have one of Sweet Bite’s pairings at the same time.  But for your enjoyment, here is a photo shoot that betters any runway sightings:

Photos courtesy Vincent Casella.