Denali Ingredients Eyes Growing European Trend To Bring Speculoos Cookie To Life As New Ice Cream Flavor

NEW BERLIN, Wis., Sept. 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Longing for a taste of Europe but lacking the funds for travel? New Berlin, Wisc.-based Denali Ingredients solves that problem with the unveiling of its newest decadent flavor, European Cookies and Cream. Invented as a means to satiate the growing American obsession with one of Europe's most popular cookies, the speculoos cookie, European Cookies and Cream ice cream will be sold under a variety of dairy and grocery store brands beginning in 2015. Package size and pricing will vary by manufacturer.

Denali Ingredients European Cookies and Cream contains chunks of spiced cookie dough swirled with chocolate fudge in a spiced cookie flavored ice cream. The unique combination meets consumer's taste buds squarely at the intersection of delicious and sublime.

Historically, the speculoos cookie, also known as a Dutch Windmill cookie or spice cookie, is a short crust cookie spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. The cookie has become favored in America due, in part, to being served as an airline snack since the 1990s.

"We're on a constant mission to uncover new flavor trends that might translate as decadent ice cream, and the 'airline' cookie is a good example of that," said Neal Glaeser, president of Denali Ingredients. "Millions of spiced cookies are served each year on domestic flights alone, and now we're starting to see speculoos cookie butter spreads and other variations that indicate to us that the time is right for ice cream."

Denali Ingredients offers pilot test production of its innovative ice cream concepts to partner dairies interested in exploring new flavor concepts such as European Cookies and Cream.

Denali Ingredients is one of the leading innovative developers of ice cream flavors and novelty concepts.  In addition to European Cookies & Cream, Denali Ingredients has recently developed flavors such as Pretzel Palooza, Tea & Lemonade, Sea Salt Caramel Espresso and others.

About Denali Ingredients
Wisc.-based Denali Ingredients, is a leading supplier of chocolate coatings, fudge sauces, powders, fruit variegates, stabilizers, extruded products, flakes and other ingredients for the dairy, ice cream, bakery and food service industries. Denali Ingredients is a sister company to Mich.-based Denali Flavors, Inc., one of the leading inventors and marketers of specialty flavors for the ice cream industry, including its signature flavor, Moose Tracks®. For more information, please visit www.denaliingredients.com or www.moosetracks.com.

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