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The Vegan Passionfruit is a special flavor the shop created in honor of its 10-year anniversary. This colorful flavor has a coconut, cashew, and cocoa butter vegan base, and chunks of pastel almond and vegan matcha cakes.

Let the birthday celebrations begin! ???????? We’re kicking our 10 year birthday festivities off with two very special ice creams. First up: Vegan Passionfruit ?????? First we blended a HUGE dose of real passionfruit into our vegan coconut & cashew base. Then we folded in naturally colored pink and purple almond cake pieces along with chunks of our beloved housemade matcha green tea cake to create a colorful scoop that matches our buttery yellow and multi-color spotted ice cream trucks, where it all began! ?????? You can find it right now at all our NYC shops & this flavor will be landing at our 3 LA shops very soon! ??????

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Not so basic ice cream sandwiches

Van Leeuwen also serves a fun spin on the classic ice cream sandwich. This comes in vegan and non-vegan flavors but you’ll want to try it with the Hot Brooklyn Summer scoop. Mike’s Hot Honey and Van Leeuwen collaborated on this flavor, which is the perfect blend of spicy and sweet caramel, a swirl of homemade mulberry jam, and pieces of gluten-free corn cake.

Or try the Gianduja X flavor, one of the first flavors Van Leeuwen ever made.

“This is a very Van Leeuwen flavor in that it’s only made with exceptional ingredients,” Van Leeuwen said. \"It’s made with Piedmont hazelnuts, chocolate chips, and white chocolate swirl.\"

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All of these special flavors and more are available throughout the summer at Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream locations in New York City and Los Angeles.

This story was originally published on July 18, 2018.

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