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Cassie Price fell in love with New Zealand-style ice cream in Squamish, British Columbia. Annual mountain bike trips to the area with friend Taylor Samuelsen involved daily visits to an ice cream shop with the soft serve- style frozen treat. Earlier this month, Price and Samuelsen introduced New Zealand’s frozen dessert to Bend with the debut of Birdsong Ice Cream at The Podski food cart lot.

Traditionally, this style of ice cream is made to order and combines vanilla ice cream with frozen fruit. And although the dessert resembles soft-serve ice cream in appearance, it tastes buttery and creamy. Price and Samuelsen purchased a camp trailer in February and remodeled it into a nostalgic blue-and-white ice cream mobile from which the frozen treat made with frozen strawberries, blueberries, marionberries and raspberries is served through propped-open windows.



Birdsong Ice Cream is fashioned from a remodeled camp trailer. Avid Cider Company wins gold at Northwest Cider Cup I watched as Price loaded hard-packed vanilla ice cream into the funnel of a machine perched in the window of the camper, then added the frozen fruit. She pulled a lever, lowering a motorized drill into the mix, swirling the frozen dessert until it was a pastel pink.

The ice cream was then dispensed from the machine in a swirl-like pattern and drizzled with dark chocolate. “It feels like a nice treat that’s also healthy at the same time. You’re getting your daily serving of berries and antioxidants,” P.

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