Devon businesswoman gets a special award for her ginger ice cream and is commended for her pretty Ford Transit van in the process.
The 1998 model Ford Transit ice cream van, called ‘Ginger’, has helped its owner scoop (haha) one of the top prizes at the 2011 British Street Food Awards.
Ginger’s Comfort Emporium took the award for Best Dessert with a roast banana, salt caramel and peanut flavoured ice cream. The Ford Transit claimed second place in the Best Mobile category, an award for mobile catering.
Claire Kelsey, founder of Ginger’s Comfort Emporium – which specialises in making distinctive ice cream desserts – created a distinctive new flavour, rhubarb crumble and ginger, in honour of Ford of Britain’s centenary, titled “Ford 99 plus 1” and provided free samples to the first 100 customers to arrive at Vospers Ford dealership in Plymouth.
The judges of the awards included celebrity TV chef, Antony Worrall Thompson who said: “I’m not normally a sweet eater but this is absolutely delicious. Not only is the ice cream incredibly tasty, the Ford van is actually very pretty too!”
Claire Kelsey was clearly thrilled and added “It’s a dream come true to win this award – I was delighted when the judges announced we’d won Best Dessert. It’s a flavour I’ve been making for quite some time now and it has obviously gone down well with the judges.”
The Ford Centenary Tour ends this month and has covered a distance of over 2,200 miles across Britain, from Inverness to Southampton and Cardiff to London, in celebration of 100 years of Ford of Britain.
FOXY Steph (wishing she was there…)
