Moray Cup ice cream created by Fochabers parlour
The drink that everyone’s talking about is now also available as an ice cream.
Moray Cup has been flying off the shelves since it was reborn last week following a seven-year absence.
Now Fochabers Ice Cream Parlour has created its own take on the popular beverage so that, from today, it’s also available in a cone or a tub.
Sheila Gray, who runs the multi-award winning parlour, said: “I’m not a fizzy drinks person so I can’t tell you if Moray Cup still tastes like it used to.
“However everyone who’s tasted the ice cream so far seems to like it.”
The Moray Cup ice cream is just the latest creation of the Fochabers attraction, which has a long and celebrated history of creating unusual but delicious ice cream flavours.
A few years back there was Murray Mint, when a certain Scottish tennis player was beating all-comers at Wimbledon. Meanwhile, Cranberry and Turkey is a regular festive favourite, and there was even a Coronation Chicken when King Charles III came to the throne.
Sheila is always open to new suggestions from customers.
One young patron recently asked if the parlour could start making a Despicable Me ice cream.
When Sheila questioned what that might taste like, she was told bananas because that’s the favourite food of the Minions, the little cartoon characters who star in the film series.
The upshot of all this is that a Despicable Me flavour will be available in Fochabers in the very near future.
All the different types are made by Sheila and her team in a workshop that backs onto the parlour and overlooks an attractive outdoors seating area. Inside, meanwhile, the walls are decorated with dozens of ice cream-related pictures, drawn and painted by local youngsters.
Sheila said: “You always have to be open to new ideas. When I opened 14 years ago I was determined to be original. But as well as being innovative you always have to provide good quality and you have to work hard at it too.”
Word about the parlour has spread far and wide.
While Sheila was taking a group of visitors from Australia came inside having has the parlour recommended to them during their time in Moray. Each of the three tourists left shortly afterwards carrying an ice cream.
Sheila said: “It really helps that there are so many other good businesses here in the village, such as the Fochabers Fish Bar and Christies Garden Centre, to name just two. We all help each other.
“It’s quite common for folk to go for a fish supper, then walk down the street to have a dessert here.”
Sheila added: “Some said setting up an ice cream shop here would never work, but it has and I still absolutely love doing this. I really do.”
