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Black Cat Ice Cream

Black Cat Ice Cream is amazing home made ice cream, and I need your help getting it to the world!

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Black Cat Ice Cream

Black Cat Ice Cream

Black Cat Ice Cream

Black Cat Ice Cream

Black Cat Ice Cream

Black Cat Ice Cream is amazing home made ice cream, and I need your help getting it to the world!

Black Cat Ice Cream is amazing home made ice cream, and I need your help getting it to the world!

Black Cat Ice Cream is amazing home made ice cream, and I need your help getting it to the world!

Black Cat Ice Cream is amazing home made ice cream, and I need your help getting it to the world!

Alex Carter
Alex Carter
Alex Carter
Alex Carter
1 Campaign |
Des Moines, United States
$370 USD 8 backers
12% of $3,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

What's Black Cat Ice Cream?

My name is Alex Carter, and I am the founder of Black Cat Ice Cream. I am a pastry chef in Des Moines, Iowa that has spent the last couple of years working on creating the most amazing ice cream possible. I use organic sugar, the freshest dairy and eggs produced on small farms in central Iowa, as well as other locally produced ingredients.  Black Cat Ice Cream is “top shelf” stuff.

While my career as a pastry chef has so far been brief, I have won a State Fair blue ribbon for baking, and my desserts have been featured in The Juice.  Aside from being pastry chef, I was also a finalist for Best Artist in Des Moines in 2014 and 2015.  I am taking that creativity and artistry and making the best ice cream you will ever taste!

Des Moines is an up and coming culinary city. I want people in the future to say “Oh when you are in Des Moines you have to go to Zombie Burger, Fong’s and Black Cat Ice Cream.”

With your help I am going to build Black Cat Ice Cream into a Des Moines staple.

So What Do I want From You?

I’ve got the recipes perfected, I have the menu and I have the bare bones equipment. I have my local suppliers lined up.  What I need now is help from you. After announcing the creation of this business I have been asked “So what is this? Are you opening an ice cream shop, or what?” I would love to open an ice cream shop right now, and if I were to raise enough money to do so through this campaign, I wouldn’t be mad!  But what I am doing is starting small and growing from there. 

My plan is to sell ice cream cones and pints from an ice cream cart at local farmers markets, festivals, and with the other food trucks in the streets of Des Moines this summer. I also have interest to sell it at some local retailers and restaurants. That will one day grow into a physical location.

Now is where you come in. Did you see the movie “Chef”? It was a great movie, but starting and operating a food truck and selling food isn’t as simple or cheap as they make it look. The fees to be a food vendor in the streets of Des Moines are almost $1000. A basic cart is around $1200. Insurance is $185 a month, fees to be able to sell at farmers market are $300+ per farmers market.  It all adds up quickly!

I am raising money specifically to help cover these start up costs. Every dollar raised, weather the goal is met or not, will go to those costs. Every spare cent I have will also be going into getting this ice cream ball rolling. We can do it together!

What's In It For You?

By helping me cover upfront costs, I will repay you with ice cream. SO much ice cream!  I cannot wait to get my ice cream to you!

Seriously.

I've held a few tastings and common responses to tasting Black Cat Ice Cream are “Oh. My God.”, “Holy sh*t”, and “That’s the best thing I’ve ever tasted”, as well as a lot of dumbfounded faces.  I have put together a number of perks for supporters that will guarantee you get to enjoy some truly amazing ice cream this summer!  If you donate to this campaign, you get ice cream!  It's just that simple!

I am extremely passionate about this, and am confident about the chances of this being a success.  Des Moines has no "go to" local ice cream maker. In years past there was Reeds, and I hope to follow in those footsteps and beyond by making the worlds best ice cream right here in Des Moines.

Thank you for your support. Let's do this!


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Keepin' The Cream Alive

$10 USD
You will receive a punch card good for three ice cream cones from Black Cat Ice Cream! Any available flavor! Cool!!
Estimated Shipping
June 2015
1 claimed

Cream On

$25 USD
A voucher for 3 pints of ice cream to be redeemed any time. Des Moines area only! Neat!
3 claimed

Cream Come True

$35 USD
3 Pints of ice cream shipped anywhere in the world! Anytime, any flavor. Makes a great gift! Sweet!!
Estimated Shipping
June 2015
1 claimed

Cream Me Up Scotty

$50 USD
A voucher for 6 pints of ice cream redeemable anytime. Des Moines area only. Wow!!
1 claimed

Livin the Cream

$75 USD
A four layer ice cream cake and 3 pints of ice cream. Who's better than you?? Des Moines area only!
0 claimed

A Midsummers Night Cream

$100 USD
Summer Pint of the Month Club! 3 pints a month for June, July, and August (9 total for you math wizards). Makes a great gift! Are you kidding me, or what?? Des Moines are only.
1 claimed

Follow Your Cream

$175 USD
Ice Cream Cake Party – a six layer ice cream cake plus 8 pints of ice cream! You will work with Alex to decide on the cake and ice cream flavors for a custom built cake and ice cream extravaganza! Great for birthdays, or any day you want to make awesome! Des Moines area only. Awesome!
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I Cream of Genie

$250 USD
One Year Membership In the Pint of the month Club! 3 pints of seasonal ice cream ships four times a year to anywhere in the country!! Talk about an amazing Mothers or Fathers Day gift, am I right?
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Lucid Creams

$500 USD
Dessert Party! –Alex creates a dessert menu with 6 desserts paired with 6 custom made ice creams. Enough for you and 10 of your friends! Fancy private pastry party! Des Moines area only. Incredible!!
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River of Creams

$1,000 USD
You and Alex develop a flavor together, and it is named after you, and will forever be an available flavor from Black Cat! You will receive two pints of ice cream a month for the following 24 months. 1 pint will be your personal flavor, the other will be of your choice. IMMORTALIZED IN ICE CREAM! WOWOWOWOW!!!!!
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