Salt & Straw to serve 'waste less' flavors to celebrate Earth Month

SEATTLE - In celebration of Earth Month, Salt & Straw will release a set of flavors highlighting the importance of sustainability and reducing food waste.

The Portland-based ice cream shop announced its "Waste Less" series, which uses overlooked ingredients to create some special flavors.

Over the past three years, Salt & Straw has eliminated more than 50,000 pounds of food waste from landfills, part of a broader mission to use its platform to raise awareness and find creative solutions for food conservation.

The Waste Less Series include the following:

• Chocolate Date Tiramisu Stracciatella:  Salt & Straw collaborated with Atomo Coffee to create a coffee-forward tiramisu ice cream sweetened with dates and layered with espresso-soaked chocolate cake and chocolate stracciatella flecks.

(Salt & Straw)

• Cherry Red Velvet Cheesecake: Red velvet cream cheese frozen yogurt features jammy cherry marmalade, vanilla bean cheesecake and red velvet cake crumble, created in collaboration with Hello! I’m Ugly.

(Salt & Straw)

• Chocolate Malted Potato Chip Cupcake: Malty chocolate barley milk ice cream with chocolate-glazed cupcakes, chocolate-dipped potato chips and a thick ribbon of dark caramel; a collaboration with Uglies Kettle Chips and Ever Grain.

(Salt & Straw)

• Peanut Butter & Jelly Pound Cake: Salt & Straw collaborated with Urban Gleaners to create a salted sweet cream ice cream featuring blueberry jam, baked peanut butter crumbles, and rich pound cake.

Peanut Butter & Jelly Pound Cake  (Salt & Straw)

• Rum Raisin Bundt Cake (v): The toasted coconut rum ice cream features chunks of rum-soaked bundt cake and macerated Cabernet raisins. Developed in collaboration with Renewal Mill, the flavor highlights upcycled ingredients.

What's next:

These flavors will be available at shops starting Friday, April 3. 

Salt & Straw has several locations in Washington: Ballard, Capitol Hill, Downtown across from Pike Place Market, Queen Anne, Redmond, Totem Lake and Vancouver. 

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