Open for Christmas: Rays Ice Cream present a festive feast

As the streets of Swindon’s OldTown bustle with anticipation for the Christmas lights switch on later this month, Rays Ice Cream’s freezers will be packed and ready for another busy festive period. The family run ice cream business is set to delight customers with its Christmas ranges and other local favourites, from bespoke ice cream cakes to hot chocolate and home made waffles.

The Christmas ice cream range gives customers the opportunity to try bold flavoursand alternative treats that are unavailable anywhere else in Swindon. Ranging from the traditional essence of the Christmas pudding ice cream to the infusion of spices in the mulled wine sorbet, Rays Ice Cream’s Christmas flavours will also include mince pie and brandy cream flavours.           

Rays Ice Cream also has the answer to keep the kids entertained through the Christmas break. The reindeer poo offering, which consists of dairy ice cream and chunky choc chips, is sure to put smiles on faces and be a talking point this Christmas. Swinging by Rays Ice Cream this Christmas gives parents the perfect opportunity to enjoy a cup of sumptuous hot chocolate or warming fairtrade coffee, too.

With two-tier and log ice cream cakes now on the menu, customers can mix and match their favourite flavours to create their own cake from only £20. Co-founder of Rays Ice Cream, Hadi Brooks has suggested some delicious combinations: “With our fantastic cakes now available, you can customise yours to create some delightful Christmas flavours. Mixing our double choc and mint choc ice creams together makes a wonderful After Eight cake, for example. Or, why not combine mince pie and brandy cream ice creams? Cakes are made to order so we are asking customers to get their orders in now!”

All of these products and more will be in the shop ahead of the Old Town Christmas light switch on, which will take place on Sunday 29 November 2015. On the night, Rays Ice Cream will be open until 6.30pm selling their famous ice cream and taking orders for Christmas cakes. There will also be special offers on bite size waffles.

Looking ahead to the Christmas period, Hadi continued: “Christmas is a time for food lovers to indulge and try something new. We think that should apply as much to lovers of ice cream as anyone else, so we are eager to bring back our delicious seasonal flavours. We’ll be here throughout December leading up to Christmas, giving Swindon’s ice cream lovers the chance to try them all and pick the perfect alternative to traditional desserts this season!”

In December, Rays Ice Cream will be open from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm daily until Wednesday 23 December and from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm on Christmas Eve. The business will bring 2016 in style by opening on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day from 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm. For the first time ever, the shop also plans to open in January, Wednesday to Sunday from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm.

Rays Ice Cream makes around 200 ice cream flavours on site. Of these, a choice of 16 is available at its shop at any one time. The company sources many of its key ingredients, including whole milk, double cream and fruit, locally.

The company caters for events within an hour’s drive of Swindon and offers bespoke ice cream packages for local retailers and foodservice outlets.

For further information, visit www.raysicecream.co.uk, follow on Twitter and like on Facebook.

For media enquiries, contact Emma De Maio, redheadPR, 07921 160 134, emma@redheadpr.co.uk.

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