Ample Hills Gets 'Best Use of the Word Crack' Award (Best Ice Cream, Too)

In it's "Best of New York" issue, the Village Voice has awarded Ample Hills Creamery two honors: Best Ice Cream, and Best and Most Accurate Use of the Word 'Crack'.

Neither comes as a surprise. Even before it opened last May, had . And four days after it opened, the shop and was forced to close for more than a week.

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The "best use of the word crack" honor was for the name of the "salted crack caramel" flavor, which the Voice called addictive. And they're not alone.

Owner Brian Smith said the burnt-sugar, chocolate, sugar concoction is “far and away” the most popular flavor.

“On any given weekend we can go through three boxes, the next most popular flavor (peppermint patty), it’s about half that,” he said. A box, by the way, is two-and-a-half gallons.

As for the best ice cream accolade, Smith was thrilled.

“It was a complete and utter surprise and delight,” he said.