A family-run ice cream parlour in Wales has won the title of National Ice Cream Champion 2022 at the 'Oscars' of the ice cream world, with their coveted family recipe - and possibly the cutest tasting experts in the country. Basil & Rusty's in Machen, which has been making Minolis ice cream for more than 30 years, picked up the award for the fourth time.
“We are absolutely delighted to win this award,” said Geraint, the chief ice cream creator for Minolis. "Our success is all down to my late dad, Lewis, who created this recipe that we still use it today and my mum, Sue, who with a little help from us, has carried on this award-winning ice cream making business after my Dad passed away in 2017.”
The ice cream is made on-site at the family's Gelliwastad Farm, where the parlour is also located and is run by Geraint and Emma Richards, who took over from Geraint's mam and dad, Sue and Lewis, and later his sister Sian, back in 2016. Sue still helps out in the business, and it was with Lewis back in the 1980s that she developed the vanilla ice cream recipe using, at first, a borrowed home ice cream maker.
