Ice Cream Maker Miguel Castillo has been with Fentons since 1997

We offer Ice Cream Production Tours

at Fentons Creamery.

The tours are great for kids!

Interested?

Give us a call to discuss the options

(510) 658-7000 in Oakland 

(707) 469-7200 at the Nut Tree

email info@fentonscreamery.com

 

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Our Master Blender, Scott Whidden, has been making ice cream for a over a quarter century, playing with recipes and pleasing the taste buds of everyone from the kids on the other side of the counter to the people wanting to establish a dipping store in their own corner of the world. Among his accomplishments, he is proud of concocting CCAC-creamy caramel almond crunch-in honor of the 75th anniversary of the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1989. The flavor is thought to replicate, on a cone, what Fentons signature sundae, the Black & Tan, does in a dish.

But, probably the most famous flavor to come out of Fentons Creamery is Rocky Road. George Farren, candy maker at Fentons Creamery, was making a Rocky Road candy bar at Fentons and decided to blend it into an ice cream flavor. At the time, he was good friends with William Dreyer and Joseph Edy, who had an ice creamshop on Grand Avenue in Oakland. As the story goes, Dreyer soon began making Farren's recipe for Rocky Road to serve his customers using almonds instead of the english walnuts used in the Fentons Rocky Road.