Finally! The Coolhaus truck!

...Well, one of three (plus a cart?) in NYC, apparently. You may remember my excitement when I first had a "mintimalist" ice cream sandwich from the chest freezer at Zito's. Since then, I've been checking their twitter daily to see when one of their vehicles is within a few blocks of me, and it finally happened.

Hidden under some scaffolding

T3, as this truck is named, was parked on Vanderbilt in Manhattan, right near Grand Central. It was five blocks away from work, but the weather was relatively cool today, so I figured I could get there and back without ending up with icecream soup. It was a close call.

I get overly excited when I'm presented with too many choices and I always pick more than I can eat in one sitting in these scenarios. Since I'd also gotten lunch and a drink, I didn't have the capacity for two inch-and-a-half thick ice cream sandwiches, but I got them anyway and stuck one in the freezer.

Snickerdoodle and Southern Belle

My first pick was Snickerdoodle cookies with "Southern belle" ice cream inside. The combination of Maker's Mark, peaches, and sugared pecans is practically a shopping list of delicious things that remind a body of the south, so the title is adorable and apt. Not only that, though, they go really well together. I'm glad I got this summery concoction before its suddenly out of season. There's a strong enough whiskey flavor to make you question how much of a lady this belle really is, but the deliciously crunchy pecans and sweet peaches could fool you at first blush. The cookies were cinnamon-y and buttery and strong enough to hold all that wonderful ice cream and you'd be very happy if someone just handed you one of these cookies all by itself.

Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Stout, and Pretzels!

A couple of hours later when I was feeling a little afternoon snacky, I pulled the second sandwich out of the freezer at work. Chocolate chip cookies were held at arms length by chocolaty stout beer with salty pretzels. (Maybe letting this get a little melty was a bad idea, as the pretzels were soft by the time I got to eat it.) There might have been sea salt in the cookies too, but wherever it was coming from, that salty taste was cutting through the cold sweet stout ice cream with every bite and warming my mouth in the process. These cookies are apparentyl the original offering from Coolhaus, and it's easy to see how someone could build a food truck empire on this hearty, chocolaty foundation. Coolhaus offers half a dozen different cookie options but if they were out of everything else, you'd still score a win if you filled two of these with any of their ice creams.

Sometimes the trucks or the cart come to Brooklyn and set up in some of the parks here or at some of the outdoor movies and pier events, so follow them on your twitter and get there.

-SdJ