Clementine’s Ice Cream, a St. Louis-based ice cream parlor which opened a location in September in Prairie Village, Kansas, is offering certified kosher flavors.
Nineteen of the company’s offerings are certified by Vaad Hoeir of St. Louis, and one of its holiday flavors was crafted by award-winning Jewish pastry chef Fany Gerson.
Founder Tamara Keefe launched six “Holiday Cookie Exchange” flavors this season, each using cookie recipes from acclaimed pastry chefs. Fany Gerson, a Jewish Mexico City-native, pastry chef and business owner, submitted her recipe for rugelach. Now living in New York, Gerson runs multiple businesses and is a James Beard Foundation Award nominee for her desserts.
“Rugelach is a typical Jewish cookie, and it’s fantastic,” Gerson said in a video announcing her partnership with Clementine’s. “...[Mine] is cherry chipotle, which is not a traditional flavor, but it is tradition in my house.”
The resulting Chipotle Cherry Rugelach ice cream flavor uses brown sugar ice cream as base with Gerson’s rugelach cookies and spiced cherry chipotle jam swirled in.
“I am both Mexican and Jewish and have lived in New York for half of my life at this point. This cookie, in a way, represents those three roots and is part of my identity,” Gerson said about the rugelach.
The ice cream is available for orders online at goldbelly.com in addition to Clementine’s brick-and-mortar stores.
The Prairie Village location (6966 Mission Road, Prairie Village, KS 66208) will be joined in 2026 by a location in the new Berkley Riverfront development in Kansas City.
More information about Clementine’s is available at clementinescreamery.com/pages/prairie-village.
