I experienced Sweet Valley Ice Cream for the first time at the Statehouse Market, a weekly farmer's market experience that takes place on Thursday's at the Indiana Government Center that only recently returned after a year's hiatus due to the pandemic.
The Market goes from Spring to Fall and always includes several of the most popular food trucks in Central Indiana but also a few relative newbies.
I believe that Sweet Valley is relatively new to this particular market. However, they've been bringing their homemade ice cream to Central Indiana markets for a while.
If I were to give just an outright review, I have to confess that it would likely be a star lower. However, I'm curving this one a bit because Thursday's Statehouse Market was a really horrible weather day, at least initially, and everyone was just struggling to maintain their trucks in a fairly significant rain storm. So, Sweet Valley gets an extra star for hanging in there.
If you haven't guessed, Sweet Valley is an ice cream "food truck." They serve up homemade ice cream, sorbet, floats, and drinks They typically have a handful of ice cream flavors, a couple sorbet flavors, and some float options with them. They serve everything, typically in 4-4.5 ounce dishes and it looks like the floats are in a more traditional cup.
On this first visit, I ordered the Oreo Sorbet. It came in a dish with a lid and they included a plastic spoon. The sorbet had a chocolate type appearance. It was just a little too iced over for my liking - a result, of course, of being transported. I have to be honest and say I didn't particularly care for it and the plastic spoon struggled a bit with it. Again, it was just a bit too frozen. I probably needed to let it sit for a bit and maybe enjoy it back at my desk. I actually wondered if I hadn't gotten actual chocolate ice cream because I didn't really taste much in the way of Oreo.
As I'm hoping Sweet Valley will return, I plan to try the traditional ice cream next time and may even go for a float.
Prices are reasonable. I paid 4 bucks.
The folks in the truck were friendly - they had to be frustrated on the weird weather day. It had been really a hard, windy rain. It didn't last a long time, but it super impacted attendance.
Overall, I'm rating more on potential than actual experience here. I'll adjust as needed, or if needed, in the future after a couple more visits. For now, their brightly colored truck is a welcome vision at Statehouse Market and I look forward to trying different flavors in the future.
The company is Bloomington, Indiana-based and made at One World Commissary. The truck was started by the Brown-Hill family and is a locally owned, family owned operation. read more