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Carmen’s Best Ice Cream, One of Manila’s Best

June 20, 2014 by Richard

I first discovered Carmen’s Best Ice Cream way way back in 2011 at the Ultimate Taste Test and Yummy Eats. They’ve come a long way since then, they started with plastic packaging and look at it now, it can go up with the best in the world with the blue body and gold top.

Carmen’s Best was started by Paco Magsaysay because he had ready access to fresh milk and cream courtesy of Holly’s Farms, where his dad was one of the partners.

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Paco has kept on adding flavor after flavor to their repertoire but Lauren and I still counts the Salted Caramel as our ultimate favorite. We find it hard to try buying a new variant because there’s no taste testing. This won’t be a problem anymore because they’ll be opening their first ever scooping store at the Century City Mall.

Carmen's Best Ice Cream Paco Magsaysay

I got a rare chance during our Alabang staycation to visit the Carmen’s Best ice cream factory. The factory was actually beside Paco’s house in Ayala Alabang but it will be transferred to a bigger location. I’ve always loved watching shows like “How It’s made” so this was a treat in itself.

Paco started the tour with what goes in to their ice cream, premium ingredients carefully selected starting with fresh milk and cream. This makes their product really creamy and can go head to head with some of the world’s best ice creams.

Carmen's Best Ice Cream Scale

Everything is weighed so that each and every batch is consistent , they take quality control really seriously that’s why they produce such a great product.

Carmen's Best Ice Cream MachinesCarmen's Best Ice Cream Blast Freezer

Here’s a peek at their industrial ice cream machine and blast freezer.

Carmen's Best Ice Cream Paco and Carmen

We also got to meet the face behind the name, Carmen, Paco’s oldest daughter, during the ice cream factory tour.

Carmen's Best Ice Cream Soft Serve Ice Cream

Tour done, it’s time for ice cream. Paco prepared a special soft serve ice cream that he does not usually sell this. Lauren was super excited to try it out, and if she could could give a giant thumb’s up she would have. She said it tasted like the ones she had from Japan and other countries, milky and creamy. A far cry from what they serve here in the Philippines, the only one similar is the one served at Mother’s Crepe.

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We also got a taste of their newest flavor, the Hokey Pokey which is honeycomb toffee. It’s quite good but I still preferred the salted caramel.

During another event, I was so surprised to see that a lot of people don’t know nor have tasted Carmen’s Best ice cream. You owe it to yourself to get a taste of one of the best ice creams around and it’s locally produced.

 

Carmen’s Best Ice Cream

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Comments

  1. Sugar and Spice says

    June 20, 2014 at 8:22 AM

    Carmen’s best is the best! <3 Kap loves their pistachio ice cream! :) Hope you guys are having fun on Davao. Don't eat too much crabs though you've been having them ALL day.. NOT FAIR hahaha!! :P

    • Richard says

      June 20, 2014 at 10:43 AM

      You’ll have to try other local artisan ice cream makers. They also make good ice cream.
      No more crabs na, we’ve had quite a bit already.

    • Sugar and Spice says

      June 20, 2014 at 12:56 PM

      *IN davao I meant gosh. Fat fingers kainis!!

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