13 Custom Confections
The Babcock Hall Dairy Plant makes special ice cream flavors to honor notable Badger people and events, and we think their creativity is pretty sweet. Here is a partial list of some of the dairy’s commemorative concoctions.
Alumni Park After Dark: Chocolate ice cream with caramel swirl and white chocolate chips; created in honor of Alumni Park’s grand opening this past October
Bec–Key Lime Pie: A Key lime–flavored ice cream with a graham-cracker ribbon; named after UW–Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank
Berry Alvarez: A berry-flavored ice cream with strawberries, raspberries, and a blueberry ribbon; named after Barry Alvarez, the former Badger football coach and current director of the UW athletic department
Berry Proud Parent: Vanilla ice cream with raspberries and chocolate chips; created at the request of the Parent Program in appreciation of UW parents
Cherrity: Black-cherry ice cream made with Door County cherries and chocolate fudge swirls; created to help kick off the university’s charity (get it?) 2016 Partners in Giving campaign
Chocolate Chryst: Chocolate ice cream with Rice Krispie pieces and a cream cheese swirl; named after Badger head football coach Paul Chryst ’88
Crazy Legs: A Badger-red vanilla ice cream full of chocolate-coated, caramel-filled footballs, with a marshmallow swirl; named after Elroy Hirsch x’45, former UW athletics director and Badger football star known for his frenzied style of running
Grainger Granite Crunch with Academia Nuts: Vanilla ice cream with a blend of macadamia nuts, chocolate chips, and English toffee pieces; named after Grainger Hall, home of the Wisconsn School of Business, when it opened in 1993
IceCube’s Blue Neutrino: Vanilla ice cream with brown candies representing neutrino detectors, blue ice cream representing ice, and marshmallow swirl representing the streaking neutrinos; named after the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
In the Dark: Chocolate ice cream with malt background flavor and pecans, fudge, chocolate chips, and brownie pieces; named after the annual Wisconsin Film Festival
MadGrad Medley: Vanilla ice cream with Door County cherries and chocolate chips and flakes; named in honor of the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s 150th anniversary
Morgridge Medley: Vanilla ice cream, butterscotch and fudge swirl, brownies, and pecans; served at the Wisconsin Union in 2014 to celebrate a $100 million gift from John ’55 and Tashia ’55 Morgridge
Union Utopia: Vanilla ice cream with a swirl of caramel, peanut butter, and fudge; named after the Babcock Hall Dairy Plant’s largest ice cream customer — the Memorial Union
Published in the Winter 2017 issue
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